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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.
2,104 Questions
Do killer bees live in Pennsylvania?
Killer bees can live in Pennsylvania. They are able to live in the majority of the United States, as well as in Africa and Brazil.
How do bees ferry water back to the hive?
They carry it in the honey crop, in the same way as nectar. They won't forage for nectar and water on the same trip.
yes, because there are only a few bees in England but if you are referring to the world i don't know.
yes because it movers around the light and that is how it nos were is nest is
When a queen lays an egg she chooses whether or not to fertilise it from her store of sperm. If she does, the resulting insect will be female; if not, it will be male.
So, all female bees are diploid -- two sets of chromosomes, one from father, one from mother, and all male bees are haploid -- one set of chromosomes from the mother only.
Yes, a bit more then other flowers. No, its not really the smell, its the colors. Bees are attracted to bright, intricately patterned flowers.Hydrangeas are big, bold flowers with dark centers, and they are mostly flat flowers, meaning the bee doesn't have to go as far to get to the pollen.
What are bees with triangle stingers?
there is no bee, wasp, hornet, and honey bee that has a triangle stinger. (they all have cone stingers).
How do male bees protect themselves?
male bees do not have stingers, only the females or workers. they must fly away as there only protection.
Bees are affected by any of a number of different viruses. Bacterial diseases include American Foul Brood and European Foul Brood (named after where the causes of the diseases were first recorded, not where the bees are located). They can also be affect by a microsporidian, nosema, or, although not strictly a disease, by mites such as acarine and varroa.
No bee virus or bacterium has any effect on humans, or vice-versa
Who is someone who study's bees?
Bees are generally studied by entemologists, but an entemologist is someone who studies insects in general. If a person were to study bees to the exclusion of any other type of insect he would be an apiologist.
Would the bees die inside sealed wall?
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Bees are very strong for their size. If they are trapped inside a sealed wall, they will have no problem chewing through the wood and plaster to make a new exit. Bees seal up their own hives during harsh, cold winter months, and simply shred a new hole when the warmer seasons arrive.
Bees also have a huge reserve of honey and always produce more than they need. So, even if there is definitely no way out, it could be months before they run out of food and die. Imagine all those months dealing with buzzing behind your walls.
Also bear in mind that some bee species are protected by law. Harming a habitat of protected species carry hefty fines into the 20,000-plus area. Or imprisonment.
You'll be safer contacting a local bee association to move the bees to a protected reserve.
Previous Answer
Yes - if they have no exit to get out to a food supply.
How much pollan do bees collect?
It depends on the flower they land on. Some flowers will have a lot of pollen, while others don't have much. The bee usually collects at least several hundred grains.
Why are honey bees called social?
Honey bees, like ants and termintes, are social insects. That means they live in large colonies where members of the colony share tasks. They usually have only one female -- the queen -- who lays the eggs, and the other females are infertile.
Within a social colony, individual members cannot survive for any length of time without the colony.
Non-social insects are called solitary, and live alone. Most insects are solitary.
How much honey bees are in England?
This can only be a very broad estimate (no-one knows the real answer):
There are somewhere around 50,000 beekeepers. They will each have anything from one to several hundred hives, but let's say the average is ten. That would give us something like 500,000 hives.
In each hive, in summer, there are probably around 50,000 bees. Although this figure does vary through the year.
On that basis there must be around 25,000,000,000 bees, but remember this is a guess, and doesn't include feral colonies -- and we have no idea how many there are of those...
