Bees and Beekeeping

honey bees get it on in flight. the queen flies out of the colony and the males (drones) find her and mate with her in flight. sadly the male does after he finishes "called popping the drone" when he's done he falls off and his internal organs stay with the queen. she does this 8-15 times before returning to the hive to lay eggs. she only has to do this once. one mating flight gives her enough sperm to lay hundreds of thousands of eggs.

Bees need honey for their survival.

Honey is the main source of food during winter months for bees.

During warmer seasons, bees usually feast on nectar from flowers. With exception to the Queen who eats "royal jelly". A specially mixed nectar made by her worker bees which contains huge amounts of vitamins, promoting growth and fertility in the Queen.

Any nectar that the bees bring back to the hive are stored in little wax cells. Nectar is actually rather watery. But the heat inside the hive and the fanning of cool air by the bee's wings helps the nectar to dry, forming honey.

Once nectar is dry enough the bees will cover it up with wax to protect it.

During colder months when most of the flowers wither and stop producing large amounts of nectar, the bees break open the wax seals on the honeycombs and eat the honey.

Honey, due to the high natural sugar content and humid storage, never spoils. So it can be stored in the hive for months.

Bees are actually a lot more complex and social than most people realise.

They have a complex monarchy system, where the Queen is even fed better food than the rest of the bees. Bees also very carefully ration their honey supplies, so there is always enough to go around. They all have different "jobs" too. Not every bee is a nectar collector. Some bees are assigned to fanning nectar with their wings, others are assigned to babysitting larvae, then there's the Queens personal bodyguard bees, the honeycomb wax sealers, the "guard" bees flying around outside the hive and so on.

So, to answer your question, Bees need honey to feed on during cold, winter months. Until the warmer months when they finally leave the hive again to replace all the honey they ate.

Within a hive we call a group of bees a colony. A swarm is a group of bees looking for a new home.

The bees are not special but the flowers are in the making of Manuka Honey. In the uncultavated wilderness the Manuka tree starts to flower and the bees are attracted to the flowers and so starts the adventure. This honey is special because the flower has chemicals that mix with the enzymes of the bee and are converted in the hive into a healling honey. The bees don't do anything different than they do in making any honey.

Bees leave their hives for several reasons, such as foraging for food, scouting for new potential hive locations, or to collect water. Worker bees also leave the hive to perform tasks like collecting nectar, pollen, or propolis. On rare occasions, bees may also swarm and leave the hive to establish a new colony.

Yes, there are Africanized Honey Bees, often referred to as "killer bees," in the southern United States. These bees are more aggressive than native bee species and can pose a danger to humans and animals if agitated. It's important to exercise caution when encountering them and take steps to prevent aggressive behavior.

Bumble bees play a crucial role as pollinators, helping plants to reproduce by transferring pollen between flowers. They collect nectar and pollen to feed themselves and their offspring, contributing to the health of ecosystems and the production of fruits and seeds.

Honey bees queens lay eggs, they do not bear live young so can't be said to be pregnant.

At the height of summer, the queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs a day.

Consider that there is only one queen in a hive and only the queen lays eggs. In the spring a hive may start with 15,000 to 20,000 bees, and by the end of summer there could be 60,000 bees.

Consider also that in summer a worker bee's life span is around six weeks, so over the season the queen not only lays enough eggs to grow the population, but also she effectively has to replace the entire population every six weeks.

Honey bees mate in the air during their mating flight, usually once in a lifetime for the queen bee. After mating, the queen bee can store enough sperm to lay eggs for the rest of her life, producing around 1,500 eggs per day during the peak season. Approximately every three weeks, a new queen bee will hatch in the colony.

People should respect bees and exercise caution around them, but not necessarily be afraid. Bees are crucial for pollination and play a significant role in biodiversity. If left unprovoked, they are unlikely to sting.

Bees incidentally collect pollen for pollenating plants when they are attracted to something about a flower (nectar, UV patterns, etc). When they fly from flower to flower, they are transferring gametes from flower to flower, a classic symbiotic relationship where both the bee and plants benefit.

This part I am not sure about:

The idea is that if a bee is more hairy, it pollinates more flowers. If more plants are pollinated, there will be more plants and flowers for future bees to obtain nectar from. Therefore a bee's fitness is increased by being more hairy and pollinating more flowers. Through natural selection and a whole lot of time they have gotten more hairy to pollinate more flowers and then have more nectar to eat.

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Five. A bee has three simple eyes, called ocelli, in a triangle on the top of its head (slightly forward of the top in a drone). These are very simple eyes, little more than light receptors, and do not form an image.

On each side of its head the bee has a compound eye and these are its main organs of vision.

Female bumblebees, also known as worker bees, are responsible for tasks such as foraging for nectar and pollen, caring for the young, building and maintaining the nest, and defending it from predators. They play a crucial role in the survival of the colony by diligently carrying out these duties.

They only try to sting us because they feel that you are threatening them by swatting them. if you don't take sudden movements they are unlikely to sting you but they might come by.

DON'T BE AFRAID!!!!

Stay still and dont move.

Female bees can produce baby bees the males cannot.

The female bees are diploid and the male bees are haploid.

The antennae of a male bee has thirteen segments, while the antennae of a female has twelve. This is one way in which male and female bees are different.

The worker (unfertilized female) honey bee does all the work, both in and out of the hive, whereas the male (drone) bee does no work at all. The bad news is that at the end of the breeding season, the drone is ejected from the hive and dies because he doesn't know how to forage for food.

Bees distinguish the queen by her pheromones, which are unique to her. They can also visually recognize her due to her size and behavior. The queen emits certain sounds and signals that help the worker bees identify her as the leader of the colony.

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Yes, animals can get stung by bees. Animals such as dogs, cats, and horses are at risk of being stung by bees when they come too close to a bee hive or flower. Bee stings can be painful and cause allergic reactions in some animals.

The queen honey bee. She can live up to about five years.

Honey bee drones (males) can live up to about four months, and the workers can live anything up to about six months over winter, but usually about six weeks in summer.

Most other bee varieties have an annual cycle where the new queens that emerge at the end of summer will hibernate to start new colonies next spring, but all others will die as winter approaches.

The lifespan of a worker bee is typically around 4-6 weeks in the summer and a few months in the winter. Queen bees can live up to 2-5 years. Male bees, called drones, usually only live for a few weeks.

There are approximately 4500-5000 honey bees in a pound. So in 3 pounds, there would be around 13,500-15,000 honey bees.

Africanized honey bees (also known as killer bees) were brought to Brazil in the 1950s as an experiment to improve honey production. Some of the bees eventually escaped and interbred with local honey bees, leading to the establishment of Africanized honey bees in the Americas.

Honey bees are relatively small insects, with workers typically measuring around ½ inch to ⅝ inch in length. Queens are slightly larger, ranging from ¾ inch to 1 inch. Honey bees do not grow significantly larger than these sizes.