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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
What is a honey bees life span?
Six weeks in summer and six months in winter.
But queen typically lives several years.
What innate behaviors do bees have?
Bees innate behaviors are to fly, seek food and bring food back to the family of bees. Bees are adapted to darkness and do not limit themselves between flying at night or day time.
How long would it take 50000 honey bees to make 500 pounds of honey?
Presuming that you mean 500lbs of honey taken off a hive then it would probably represent 4 or 5 years honey production. But it could be more or less depending on the quality of summer weather and available forage for the bees.
This is a difficult question for several other reasons:
- bees are eating honey themselves so some of what they had already made would be consumed in order for them to survive to make more the next year;
- 50,000 bees represents a typical summer colony in a hive but the colony dwindles during the winter months when no honey production is possible;
- some sub-species of honey bees are more prolific than others.
I hope that helps a bit. It is a complex topic so if you are interested please do take the time to read an introductory book for beekeeping - you will find it fascinating.
What is the average life span of honey bee?
9 months
In Summer workers & drones live for about 6 weeks.
In Winter workers live for about 6 months.
Queen bees live sevarl years - maybe up to 5 years in exceptional cases.
How much honey is collected by the honeybee?
A honey bee collects about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime
How do humans affect honey bees?
humans do not effect carpenter bees at all, bees are a man best friend! the reason why they sting is to show that they are willing to risk there life for yours! aka to show that they love you <3
Yeah, if you're talking about honey bees the honey bee has a body that can naturally clean itself, and bees are really like any other person that likes to shower and get all gussied up for the day. So yeah, they're pretty clean insects, not like revolting filth flies.
Bees collect nectar from flowers, which they then make honey from. So, in short, the answer is yes.
How can you find pure honey from adulteration?
Drop one teaspoon of honey in a bowl of water. If it dissolves quickly, it means that your honey is adulterated. If it doesn't, then you can be sure that it is pure. This is because pure honey doesn't have any additives and and it is viscous where as adulterated honey has other ingredients which makes it dissolve quickly in water.
Also you can find sugar crystals formed on top in adultered honey if stored for long period of time.
Why does honey cost less than the honeycomb from which it's made?
Honey is not made from honeycomb, it is extracted from honeycomb. Each cell of the comb contains honey and it is extracted by spinning it out using centrifugal force. Afterwards, the empty comb can be re-used in the hive and filled up again by the bees.
Honeycomb is more expensive because it is cut from the honeycomb frame and so cannot be re-used.
How many milliliter is 250g honey?
A typical density for honey is Honey is 1.36 grams/ mL. 250 g honey would therefor be 250/1.36 or 183 ml
How have humans affected the bee population?
Humans put the bees in a controlled environment to help produce honey and also to keep bee death rates low. Due to humans, the bee population could only have risen.
How many bees equall one pound weight?
Well that depends on the weight of each individual bee, which may vary, also on weather they are male or female, but on average for a honey bee worker would be about 4,800 bees.
Can honey prevent the growth of molds?
Yes it can, provided it is not diluted in any. Honey's anti-fungal properties depend on the concentration of sugars being so high that mould spores can't develop.
Honey actually contains some natural yeast cells, and if you add water to honey it will probably start to ferment.
Where do africanized honey bees live?
Africanized honey bees started in Brazil and have gradually worked their way north to as far as Texas.
What are the side effects oF HONEY?
the side effects of honey is that you gain some weight and have too much calories and then it leads to obesity .
Why don't worker bees lay eggs?
Although worker bees and queen bees are all females, the queen bee releases a pheromone which causes the worker bees to be infertile. This is because the queen bee is the only one who can lay eggs in the colony. She wants to keep the workers under her control.
