Bees and Beekeeping

Bees typically do not sting fruit, but they will feed on decaying fruit. Wasps are also attracted to fruit that is decaying due to the sugars in the fruit.

They will have a sting, but they are usually quite docile and will only sting if severely provoked. The sting has evolved from an egg-laying tube in these insects, so all females but NO males will have a sting.

There are many things that would happen if something devastating happened between bees and marabou storks. These two animals are dependent on each other to survive.

Not quite. The queen and all worker bees are female. In summer, in each hive there will be somewhere between 200 and 500 males which are called drones.

In winter there will be no drones.

Vegans don't eat Beeswax but vegetarians can.

This may seem confusing at first but its understandable!

Vegans won't eat it because this is extracted from bee's homes.

and yet Vegetarians can eat this even though they are eating the bee's home!

This is kind of the same question to Palm Oil. Palm Oil is something the gorilla's eat and live on.

Palm Oil is vegan but they are eating the same food that should be saved for gorilla's! It's an interesting Vegan's won't eat Beeswax but will eat Palm Oil!

How weird is that and interesting?!

Bee cause they are.

It is very doubtful that a Marten would kill and eat a skunk. They are better geared towards eating rodents, bird's and bird's eggs. While they are opportunistic enough to consume carrion if they ran across a dead skunk, the size difference as well as the skunk's smelly defence mechanism are probably enough of a deterrent to make the marten choose easier prey

sounds like a bee to me

Indian laboratory stick insects lay up to 200 eggs. They do not need any surface to lay them on they will just drop them. They take up to 3 months to hatch. It is very likely that some will have to be crushed because they will all hatch and there will be too many to be kept by 1 person. If you plan on selling them they will sell cheapest at 10p.

It apparently eats the nectar in the flower with its proboscis.

The pollen basket of a honey bee is located on the tibia and first tarsal segment of their hind legs.

After careful consideration of the possibility of a new breed of insect identified as a bumblefly or a butterbee, the answer is no. "Oh look it's so pretty .....OUCH Son of a $#@$#"

Any type of canned wasp & hornet freeze spray should do the trick. They are not aggressive like bees so many just knock down the nest or use a high pressure hose. Of course if they live, they might return but sometimes that's all it takes.

Using their feminine skills of the time, they made homespun cloth[1] and other goods. To call attention to this effort, they would hold spinning contests in the village squares. These contests were called "spinning bees" and were widely attended by females and often males as well.

Harvesting beeswax does not hurt the bees. The bees will just continue on with their work and create more beeswax.

There are no bumblebees on mainland Australia, but they have been introduced to the island state of Tasmania. This occurred in 1992, when one species (Bombus terrestris) was accidentally introduced.

Australia has around 1500 species of native bees. In addition, many species of honeybee have been introduced to the country.

Two of Australia's native bees are sometimes mistaken for bumblebees. These are the giant yellow and black carpenter bee (Xylocopa) of Queensland and northern NSW and the golden-brown furry teddy bear bee (Amegilla). But as of 2013, there are no bumblebees on the Australian mainland.

A worker honey bee literally works itself to death in the summer and its life is all over at six weeks old. However, the queen can lay eggs at a rate of 1000 per day, so it is soon replaced.

It is not possible to give a definitive answer because it would vary on a number of factors.

During the winter a queen will not lay eggs at all. In spring, as the warmer weather comes she will start laying, slowly at first but building up to about 2,000 eggs a day in the middle of summer. As the year progresses, she will slow down her laying, finally stopping as the cold weather comes.

Lots of animals eat bees. I know this dog(not mine!) thats always trying to catch bees. I dont know how it doesnt sting them on the tongue!

Some birds particularly prey on bees. Among them is he bee-eater (Merops apiaster) obviously, but mockingbirds and other bird species also eat them.

Dragonflies, which eat all kinds of small insects, also eat bees. Bears, of course, are reputed to love honey but they actually enjoy insects, and go after beehives in order to eat the bees and their larva; the honey is a sweet extra for them.

The Australian native bee, which is small, black, and stingless, is preyed upon by many creatures, birds, insects and mammals - including humans. The native bees have a sweet smell about them which is attractive to other animals. One of my sons, as a toddler in Brisbane, would sit on our front steps and pick off the bees as they zoomed back and forth to their hive, which was under the porch.

While native bees don't sting, they do bite: we could always tell when he'd been eating them because there'd be tiny bite-marks around his mouth, which didn't bother him in the least. His fascination with and appetite for the little bees was never shared by his brothers for some reason, and we didn't mind him catching the occasional flying snack since the creatures died quickly, are harmless to humans, and kept him quiet for long periods.

Eventually the hive would send out squadrons of warriors to buzz around his face and bite him, and sooner or later he'd get tired of it and go play with his Lego.

Bees can't see the color red, so unless your blood smells like flowers, I don't think you'll have to worry

They love nectar from cactus flowers and just about any desert plant in bloom.

These are the ones I know. Bumblebees, Carpenenter Bees, Honey Bees, Parasitic Bees, and Digger Bees.

The queen bee lays eggs. No other bee in the colony does.