Bees and Beekeeping

Bumble bees indeed do pollinate plants. In fact because they have a longer proboscis they can pollinate some plants that honey bees can't.

The honey guide bird can locate honey in a bees' nest but is unable to get to the honey for itself, so it guides the badger to the nest. The honey badger cannot find the nest easily by itself but, once shown the nest by the bird, the badger can open the nest with relative ease, using its huge claws. The badger eats the honey it wants and the bird feeds on the remains.

This is an example of a symbiotic relationship. It is also sometimes called mutualism.

All kinds of bees! There is Bumble bees,Wasp...well maybe, and all sorts!

Yes, you can keep them together. A chicken may be foolish enough to eat a bee, but usually only once, though there may be a slow learner who will try again. They soon learn to leave them alone.

They will eat any dead or dying bees on the ground around the hive, but chickens are not usually interested in flying bees.

The flower is the least toxic (poisonous) area of the daffodil plant. Most animals leave the entire plant alone. Slugs are good at destroying the flowers if the blooms are heavy and touching the ground. Spotty damage may be insects. There have been videos of squirrels and some birds that will pick the flowers. They don't eat them - they just like to pick the flower and leave the stem. The daffodil has lots of critters that are after its tender tissues such as aphids, bulb flies, bulb mites, caterpillars, nematodes, and thrips.

If you are referring to hymenoptera (bees and wasps), of those varieties that sting it is only the females that sting. Males do not have a sting. This is because the sting is a modified ovipositor -- an organ that only females would have.

It is difficult to give a categorical answer to this because a bee's colour vision is different from ours. We see colours in the range from red to blue violet, but bees see orange yellow to ultra violet. Therefore bees can't see red. However, a red flower may not appear black to them because it may reflect ultra violet light which they can see.

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In the United States, they are must commonly called ladybugs. In other English-speaking countries, they are more commonly called ladybirds. A more accurate name for them is lady beetle or ladybird beetles, since they are not technically "bugs."

'Killer bees' is a name created by the media. Their proper name is Africanized bees and as their name suggests, they originated in Africa. They are not native to the Americas and are therefore an invasive species.

My toad ate one once. I don't recommend purposely feeding them a bee, but accidentally eating one isn't bad when the toad is outside.

Both are economically significant insects. Honey bees are also important pollinators of many plants.

usally they keep them in the countryside where more flowers bloom, so the bees can make more honey The question was "what do beekeepers feed their bees". This could be interpreted in two ways. The original answer would be more correct if it were in response to the question "What do beekeepers let their bees eat?" However, if the question is in fact "What do beekeepers feed to their bees, the answer is: Actually, beekeepers most often feed their bees a sugar/water mixture comprised of somewhere between 1 part sugar and 2 parts water, and straight 1 to 1. This mixture is fed when not enough honey remains in the hive to support the health of the colony over the entire winter season. (See http://www.mainebee.com/articles/march2001.php)

They come out in the early spring (for me they do) and stay here until it gets cold, which is in about october. It is still hot where I live, and the mournings are freezing but then it gets so hot. From about june-october, more or less. You can't be accurate. All seasons are different and the climate length and warmth are also a varying option to when they would come and go.

The first thing I would try is Moth Balls. They are cheap and effective against alot of insects. *Be careful with the mothballs the fumes are hazardous/toxic. Read the label. Don't just throw them in your attic/crawlspace. Place them in a few buckets/small cardcoard boxes or something for easy removal once they have done their job.

Gasteracantha elipsoides is somewhat close to your description, but I'm not sure if it is the same. Gasteracantha elipsoides usually has six spikes, usually reddish.

No, grass doesn't need bees, or any other insect, because it is wind pollinated.

All bees collect nectar for their own consumption. Only the honey bee collects sufficient to make enough honey for us to harvest.

they look like tiny little white things well they look like tiny little white woodlice and once i had a woodlouse on my hand and things that looked like tiny little woodlice that were white came off or out of the woodlouse so i assume they were baby woodlice and i think that woodlice carry there babys on there belly (or tummy)

Bees, especially honey bees, are responsible for about 80% of all crop pollination. Without bees, farmers would have to quickly discover an alternative to natural pollination or a large part of the human population of Earth would starve to death.

beacuase honey bees provide honey

There are 546 million bees, but sadly that number is dropping due to parasites and other causes.

Surprisingly not, butterflies are known to be one of the top predators in the insect world and they are in fact carnivores. Some butterflies are even known to snack on large rats and rabbits.