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Bees and Beekeeping
Beekeeping is the science of managing honey bees and promoting healthy hive conditions. Honey production involves extracting honey from honey comb and packaging the honey for human use.
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How do bees help our ecosystem?
Bees create hunny, witch the bears then eat for food and then humans will kill and eat the bear for food
Are flowering plants and bees both benifitial?
They both complete each other. A flowering plant makes the ecosystem better-looking and more graceful. And bees help us in honey-making and a few more jobs. But bees couldn't make honey without the flowers, and flowers wouldn't exist without bees, bcz when a bee skips from flower to flower to gather nectar, it carries a few pollen grains to the other flower's pistil. By this, flowers reproduce in a wider way to help make our environment merrier.
Do morning glory flowers attract bees?
Morning glory flowers are commonly pollinated by bumble bees and lepidopterans.
How do honey bees carry pollen?
Bees have a slightly concave area on the tibia of their hind legs surrounded by hairs. These are called corbiculae, or 'pollen baskets'. As the bee is foraging, it uses its forelegs to brush the pollen from its body back into the corbiculae where it is trapped.
You can often see this -- look for (usually) yellow lumps on the bee's hind legs.
What two things do bees produce?
Honey and wax- but the greatest value that bees produce is pollination of fruits and vegetables.
Yes, bees can and do live indoors. Several botanical gardens keep bees.
Do the different bees fight with other bees?
There is not usually any fighting within the hive, but any bee trying to steal honey from another hive will be either killed or driven out.
Why are bees so important to flower?
Plants and everything need bees. The bees pollinate the plants and keep them strong and healthy. The plants need pollination from other plants and bees bring that to them. The plants keep the other animals alive and that keeps us alive. Einstein once said that if the honeybees died mankind would have four years left on this earth before they succumbed to starvation. WE need bees just as much as the plants do.
Not necessarily. For honey bees new queens are produced any time from spring to late summer, and they will mate about a week after they emerge from the pupal cell.
With bumble bees, new queens are produced towards the end of summer and they will mate before cold weather comes, then hibernate through the winter.
It is difficult to answer this in terms of the colors we see, because a bee's colour vision is different to our own. A bee's colour vision extends well into the ultra-violet part of the spectrum, which we can't see at all, and it doesn't extend so far as ours into the red end of the spectrum, so they wouldn't be able to see a deep red.
Because of this, bees see flowers differently from ourselves. There are patterns and stripes which can only be seen in ultra-violet which are invisible to us, but to a bee are guides to the nectar.
That said, bees are attracted to flowers of all colours. All that matters to them is that they can get nectar.
A swarm is nature's way of increasing the number of colonies.
When a colony starts to get too big for its hive the queen will leave with about half of the workers to search for a new home. The remaining workers draw out cells with wax to form queen cells and take eggs recently laid by the departing queen and put them in the queen cells. When the eggs hatch the larvae are fed exclusively on royal jelly, which makes them develop into new queens, one of which will eventually be the new queen for the old hive.
The old queen and workers fly off and will settle, usually on a tree branch or a similar structure a hundred metres or so from the old hive. The workers cluster around the queen, giving the traditional 'ball of bees'. From this, scout bees will go out to search for a likely place for a new home, something like a small cave or a hollow tree. They will eventually return and lead the swarm to it.
Many people fear a swarm, thinking it is dangerous. This is not so. Before the bees leave the old hive they gorge themselves on honey, eating as much as they can because they don't know how long it will be before they can forage again. A bee that is full of honey is even more docile than usual and less likely to sting. It is believed that a bee that is really full can't sting because it can't bend its abdomen down to use the sting.
How do you get rid of mud bees?
The mud daubers have burrowed into the side of a small hill, next to a fairly busy sidewalk in a nice neighborhood, where kids play and where the grass needs mowing right where they are. I've tried a wasp and hornet spray from the local supermarket. However, this morning they were still flying around, although a bit fewer. They are actually in the dirt on this hill. I spray into the hole as best I can,
but, it does not appear to be helping really. Do you have any suggestion?
Please e-mail me: cybilyorke@hotmail.com.
Thank you so very much!
Cybil
Where do bees go during a storm?
in any small whole.....underground, in tree truncks, bee hives, and even in ur house but sometimes for instance a bee chased me in that rain when I was goin to my car so no always do bees go hide lol good luck everyone
Are female bees bigger or smaller then male bees?
Bumble bee queens can be larger than the drones (males), it depends on the variety.
Honey bee queens and drones weigh about the same (around 160 mg) but the queen's body is longer and the drone's body is fatter. Both are larger than the workers, which weigh about 90 mg.
Birds will bathe in dust or a shallow pool of water. This helps cut down on parasites and other annoyances.
They will also preen their feathers at least once a day (often more often) to keep them neat and in order so that they look nice for potential mates, provide more effective temperature control of their body, and can be used for flight. It is, in essence, similar to combing your hair, except instead of a comb they typically preen with their bill. Most birds preen themselves, but some will preen each other.
Bees should be described for what they are...insects.
It moves by flapping it's wings really fast then the muscles in the bumble bees body start to vibrate which makes the buzzing noise.
It's legs are slow and don't like to move but they will when walking on the ground.
Bumble bees usually only walk when they are on their last few days of surviving.
What plants are pollinated by bees?
Many plants can be classed as bee friendly, but the common factors are:
* a relatively simple flower because some complex flowers can make it difficult for a bee to reach the nectar; * a good supplier of nectar; * a supplier of pollen which the bees feed to their larvae. Bees thrive best if they have a wide selection of flowers from which they can forage.
Bees need food, drinks, and love.
---- Bees need, like any other organism, food, water, and shelter. They also need to reproduce if they want their species to live on. They don't want disturbance while preforming tasks as they do not want to be killed or be hurt (we seem pretty big and threatening to them).
When does the male black-and-yellow argiope spider die?
After laying her eggs, the female black-and-yellow argiope spider [Argiope aurantia] dies. It's a natural death. That's a contrast to the fate of her mate, whom she mates and then eats.
What is the best method for removing stingers?
The stinger of a bee remains in the skin following the sting. With a bee sting you will see swelling, redness and pain. In the center of a bee sting you see a small black dot, which is the stinger. The stinger must be removed carefully to avoid putting more venom into the sting site. If you look closely with a magnifying glass you may see a small sac of venom attached to the stinger. If you use your fingers to simply pull out the stinger you will compress the sac and inject any venom remaining in it. One good method of removing the stinger is to use the edge of a credit card and gently flick the stinger from the site. This should dislodge the stinger without compressing the venom sac.
Once the stinger has been removed, you may apply a paste made with water and baking soda . This will relieve the pain caused by the venom. Ice can also be applied to the site to relieve discomfort.
If a child is allergic to bee stings, there are precautions and preparations that should be made. The physician might recommend keeping an epinephrine injector on site and available at all times. These injectors are potentially hazardous if not used correctly. Parents are responsible for providing written permission and instructing caregivers in the use of the injector.
Wasp stings are quite similar to bee stings. The main difference is that there is no stinger left in the sting site, and the reaction tends to be worse.
Call 9-1-1 if the child starts to have a severe reaction to a bee or wasp sting. A severe reaction is characterized by:
- Swelling involving the face or any area not adjacent to the sting site, or
- Swelling of the face or difficulty breathing.
- Hives, paleness, weakness, nausea, vomiting or collapse.
The above could signal a medical emergency, and the child would need immediate treatment.
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Many stinging insects do not have a barbed stinger and thus do not leave it behind (but they can sting you over and over).
However, when a bee pulls away after stinging, the sting is left behind together with its venom sac and the muscles which pump the venom.
You should remove the sting quickly because the muscles can continue to pump venom for up to two minutes.
If you grip the sting between finger and thumb, or if you use something like tweezers, you can't help squeezing the venom sac which will force more venom into you. The stinger has to be lifted out from the base or scraped off.
Scraping the sting out with your thumbnail or something with a hard edge such as the back of a knife or the edge of a credit card will remove it without squeezing the venom sac.
What kind of bees fly at night?
Bees do not hate light. They like light because they have enough heat. Bees hate bug spray
