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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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NO they are not they can choose where to land but think about it if they were blind how would they no where to find flowers
What do bees eat besides honey?
Honey bees get pollen on their feet and legs, and carry that pollen to the next flowering plant, tree, or shrub. Bees pollinate so the plants mature.
Why are bees dying outside my door at night?
One possible answer is that bees are attracted to bright lights, even at night. If there is a beehive anywhere near your house, and you have a porchlight on at night, bees may be attracted to the light and then not be able to find their way back to the hive. So they die in the evening chill. or run out of fuel flying around the light all night, and then collapse. You could try putting your porchlight on a motion sensor, and see if that helps to alleviate the problem.
It depends on the species of the bee.
Some bee's bottoms are black. Others are black with yellow stripes. While others have grey stripes.
There are over 250 species of bees and they all look different.
Are honey bees a Keystone species?
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No but they are in lower risk categories of species needing conservation.
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No they are not.
Spotted hyenas are of least concern, brown hyenas are near threatened and striped hyenas are of least concern.
How does a beekeeper use viscosity?
Viscosity is how much a liquid flows and is a relevant property of honey - so beekeepers have to take it into account. Some types of honey flow better than others; oil seed rape honey sets very rapidly and when ripe it may barely flow fast enough to make its way through a mesh filter ready for putting in jars.
How long have beekeepers harvest bees?
for most of the day. especially on hot summer mornings. and they go into their bee hive when it starts getting dark. the pollen is also taken in better when its sunny. that's why you would see more bees on a nice summery day.
How are the bumble bees dangerous?
It depends on who you are. To most people, a bee isn't very harmful, but they have a slightly painful sting, which might cause a bump or minor swelling. However, to some people, a bee sting can be very harmful, as some people have an allergy to bee stings.
What are three kind of honey bees?
After returning from her mating flight, the queen bee has only one task: lay eggs. Up to two thousand a day at the height of summer.
The drones (males) do no work in the hive. They only live for one thing: to mate with a virgin queen, and they will fly out in good weather to look out for any virgin queen. In the autumn they will be thrown out of the hive by the workers and will die.
The worker bees undertake a number of tasks according to their age:
* Days 1 to 3: Cell cleaning and brood incubation. * Days 4 to 6: Feeding older larvae with a mixture of honey and pollen (called 'bee bread'). * Days 7 to 12: Feeding young larvae with royal jelly. This is produced from the hypopharyngeal gland in the bee's head. All larvae are fed with royal jelly for about three days; queen larvae are fed exclusively on royal jelly. * Days 13 to 18: Processing nectar into honey by fanning it with their wings to evaporate water; wax making; packing pollen into cells. * Days 19 to 21: Guarding the hive entrance and taking orientation flights. * Day 21 on for the rest of its life: Foraging for nectar, pollen, water and propolis. Other duties include ventilation, humidity and temperature control of the hive. Bees can also revert to earlier duties if required. Their duties depend on the maturity of their brood glands, wax glands (from day 12) and sting gland (from day 18).
Bees are not always working, they often do nothing!
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Yellow dock contains relatively small amounts of anthraquinone glycosides, which are strong laxatives in larger doses. Since yellow dock contains only small amounts of these chemicals, however, it is used as a mild laxative.
What is the main purpose of a bee's wings?
To allow it to fly. Without this ability it would be unable to pollinate plants or collect nectar and pollen.
How are the young bees taken care of in a bee colony?
Bee larvae look like little white maggots; no legs, antennae or wings. They´re put in empty honeycombs and fed with nectar and honey. If a larvae is to become a queen bee, it´s fed with a special kind of nectar making it grow bigger than normal.
When it´s time to pupate the cell is sealed off, and eventually the adult bee will come out and start its life as a worker or queen. Or a drone, built to fertilize the queen.
bee's feed on nectar and pollen and they don't kill or hunt for prey because they are not predators they are prey themselves
Are bees considered oviparous?
Yes, since eggs go through larval and pupal phases before finally hatching.
How do bees help flowers survive?
The flower provides the bee with nectar and pollen for food, and in going from flower to flower the bee transfers pollen from one flower to the next, pollinating the flowers. Without this pollination the flowers would not develop fruit and seeds.
Humans kill bumble bees all the time, and i do believe that birds can swoop down and eat the bees from flowers or in flight.
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What covers a bees body on the top?
The honey bee has an exoskeleton that covers it entire body. This exoskeleton provides some degree of protection for the insect from other animals they prey on it.
What kind of poison do bees have?
Bee venom is quite complex. It has an acidic base, mainly formic acid, but this is only an irritant. The body's biggest reaction is caused by the peptides (small protein molecules) which include:
- Melittin, which is a strong anti-inflammatory agent and induces the production of cortisol.
- Apamin, which is a neuro-toxin and increases cortisol productionin the adrenal gland.
- Phospholipase A2, which degrades the phospholipids from which cell walls are made causing the cells to break open. It also causes reduced blood pressure and inhibits blood coagulation. It also triggers the production of prostoglandins which regulate the body's inflammatory response.
- Hyaluronidase, which dilates the capillaries, causing the spread of inflammation.
- Histamine, which is involved in the allergic response.
- Dopanime and noradrenaline, which increase the pulse rate.
- Protease inhibitors, which act as anti-inflammatory agents and stop bleeding.
Why do beekeepers need to wear protective clothing?
Beekeepers wear protective clothing so they will not be stung. One or two stings is annoying and painful, but large numbers of stings can be fatal. When you are working around entire hives of bees, large numbers of stings is what can happen if something goes wrong.
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Just to add to the previous answer, I teach beekeeping, and I have heard the odd student say something like 'Oh, my bees are so calm I don't really need my bee-suit.' My response is that one must always wear protective clothing. You can go to the bees a number of times and they are perfectly calm. The next time you go to them and open the hive they would fly out on the attack, and you won't know why. Bees are wild animals and cannot be tamed, and you just can't take the risk.
