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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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Not directly. Weedkiller is a Herbicide, therfore it kills herbage, or green growth.
Pesticides kill pests, or insects which would include bees although they are not seen as pests.
The problem for the bees with a Herbicide is that it kills its pollen plants,therefore it can lean to the death of bees by starvation if a large enough area is sprayed.
no actually butterflys do it too. Moths do it. pretty much every insect or bug does, BUT only bees use it to make honey
When an insect like bee's lands on a flower, pollen sticks to it's legs. So when an insect moves to another flower pollen gets on that flower and so on and so on as the insect moves from one plant to another.
What kind of bees produce honey?
They eat nectar, honey and pollen. The nectar turns into honey when the water evaporates from it.
Name something you might eat with honey?
You can make many things: cakes, cookies, even mead. It can be used in almost any recipe in place of sugar. For thousands of years until we started to process sugar cane and sugar beet, honey was the only sweetener available.
Remember the old saying "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" It's true: flies recoil from vinegar. So the next time you're having a picnic, wipe the table with undiluted white vinegar before you set up.
Yes, possums eat bees if they belong to insectivorous marsupial species even though no, they do not if they number among the world's herbivorous or nectarivorous mammals. For example, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is not only an insect-eater but also an everything-eater (omnivore) of carrion and of birds, earthworm, frogs, fruits, maggots, mushrooms, snakes, ticks and vegetables. In contrast, the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) of southwestern Western Australia survives exclusively upon nectar and upon pollen.
Do fully grown chickens attack baby ducklings if they are put together?
It's nearly guaranteed that they will kill the ducks, especially baby ones. They are different animals completely. My hen hatched her own chick and the others killed it two days later... If they will kill their own, they will kill ducks, too.
What animal eats bees and wasps?
Bears sometimes eat them by mistake...
Varroa mites (REALLY tiny arachnids) swarm all over the bees and make their immune systems weaken...
Birds such as the Ruby-throated Hummingbird and the Common Grackle eat bees, so do Largemouth Bass as well as various toads and frogs.
Bees depend on any type of blooming plant for their food. There have been many studies saying that bee pollination is essential for crop growth. Without bees, our food supply would be in great danger. The way the bee helps out is through pollination. As the bee gathers what it needs from one flowering bud to another, it takes with it pollen and distributes it. It has been shown that bee pollination results in better quality produce but also may help against pests.
"An apple... will only develope all the seeds inside if it has been pollinated by several bees and fully fertilized. It is possible for an apple flower to develope about ten seeds. if all the seeds do not develop, the fruit itself does not develop where the seeds are not developing. This results in poorly shapped apple of low weight."
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0842e/i0842e09.pdf
How do bees make nectar into honey?
It doesn't. Bees make honey from nectar. Pollen is used to feed the bee larvae.
Forager bees collect nectar and pollen, and bring them back to the hive where they are stored. Water is evaporated from the nectar, turning it into honey. Bees eat pollen, a rich source of protein, and honey, which is a carbohydrate.
Can you put metal in the refrigerator?
With regards to aluminum, we find the Alzheimer's Association has this to say on their webpage, "During the 1960s and 1970s, aluminum emerged as a possible suspect in Alzheimer's. This suspicion led to concern about exposure to aluminum through everyday sources such as pots and pans, beverage cans, antacids and antiperspirants. Since then, studies have failed to confirm any role for aluminum in causing Alzheimer's. Experts today focus on other areas of research, and few believe that everyday sources of aluminum pose any threat."Alzheimer's Myths http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_myths_about_alzheimers.asp also see Alzheimer's Society webpage "Aluminum and Alzheimer's Disease for similar information http://alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=99
yes, it is an old remedy from 1844 invented by Arnold King
Yes, Beedi, Cigarate smoke also kills bees especially at night times No, smoke does not kill bees. In times past, wild bees lived in or near woodland, and to them smoke meant one thing: forest fire. Their reaction to that was to gorge themselves with honey in case they needed to swarm in a hurry. Beekeepers make use of this primitive instinct by puffing some smoke into a hive they are about to open because a bee that is full of honey is much calmer and less likely to sting.
How do honeybees collect nectar?
Landing within a flower and using mouthparts describe the ways that honeybees collect nectar. The nectar is swallowed into the part of the esophagus that is known as the honey stomach. The honey stomach will expand until full, which tells the honeybee to return to the hive and transfer the nectar to a worker bee for processing into honey.
Open your mouth when you see a fly. In your lifetime you will eat at least 8 flies and spiders in your sleep.
Bees eat honey.
Bees ingest the nectar of plants and flowers only to regurgitate it (after it has mixed with enzymes in the bees stomach) as honey.
The honey is placed into cells and capped with wax. In order for bees to survive the winter they have to have sufficient honey stored in the hive, because that is their food. Bees will also eat sugar syrup (thick sugar water).
They do also eat pollen, but its not a main food source and is actually mixed with honey and mostly used for royal jelly that the larva eat.
Worker bees eat pollen and honey. The queen bee eats royal jelly.
no they just make the bee hive ( they r the only ones that make the hive)
- cause they like to
Aside from silly nonsense answers:
Like honey bees, carpenter bees feed on pollen and nectar. Female bees provision their larvae with food by placing a ball of pollen and regurgitated nectar in the brood cell. This IS honey made the same way Honey Bees make Honey. like bumble Bees they make very little but unlike bumble bees that make a thinner or more watery honey, Carpenter Bees make a honey that is thicker like peanut butter or cookie dough and as sweet as the honey we all think of.
Carpenter bees inhabit every continent on the globe except for Antarctica and in almost every environment and climate About 500 species belong to the genus Xylocopa.
Carpenter bees do not feed on wood at any time during their life cycle,But Carpenter bees do get their name from their woodworking skills. These semi solitary bees excavate nest tunnels in wood, especially in lumber that is bare and weathered. Over several years, the damage to wood can become quite extensive, as the bees expand old tunnels and excavate new ones. Carpenter bees often nest in decks, porches, and eaves, putting them in close proximity to people.
Xylocopa bees (and other Carpenter bees) look quite similar to bumblebees, so it's easy to misidentify them. Look at the upper side of the bee's abdomen to differentiate the two kinds of bees. While bumblebee abdomens are hairy, the top of a carpenter bee's abdomen will be hairless, black, and shiny. or the whole Bee will be all black or all gold and shiny.
Male carpenter bees will hover around nest entrances, chasing away intruders. They lack a sting, though, so just ignore their buzzing and aggressive flights around your head. Females do sting, but only if seriously provoked. Refrain from swatting at them, and you shouldn't have to worry about carpenter bees causing you harm.
Classification:
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Arthropoda
Class - Insecta
Order - Hymenoptera
Family - Apidae
Genus - Xylocopa
Life Cycle:
Carpenter bees overwinter as adults, usually within vacant nest tunnels. As the weather warms in spring, the adults emerge and mate. Males die after mating. Females begin excavating new tunnels or expanding tunnels from previous years. She constructs brood cells for her offspring, provisions them with food, and then lays an egg in each chamber.
Eggs hatch within a few days, and the young larvae feed on the cache left by the mother. Within a period of 5-7 weeks, depending on environmental conditions, the bee pupates and reaches adulthood. The new adult generation emerges in late summer to feed on nectar before settling in for the winter.
Special Adaptations and Defenses:
Though they are good pollinators of open-faced flowers, deeper flowers present a challenge for the large carpenter bees. To get to the sweet nectar, they will slit open the side of the flower, breaking into the nectary and robbing the flower of its juices without providing any pollination services in exchange.
Carpenter bees practice buzz pollination, an active method of collecting pollen grains. When it lands on a flower, the bee uses its thoracic muscles to produce sound waves that shake the pollen loose.
Obviously bees don't make the hives - humans do that.
The hives we see today were designed to make it easier to keep bees and harvest honey.
Before the current type of hive, it was necessary for the beekeeper to destroy the nest each autumn in order to take the honey.
When do bees make their hives?
It is a continuous process while there is sufficient nectar coming in to the hive.
