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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 bees in Buffalo NY hibernate?
Honey bees don't hibernate as such. When temperatures drop below about 7 degrees Celsius, honey bees cluster together in their hive, (or nest if they are in the wild). The formation of the cluster is constantly changing so that the same bees aren't always on the outside of the cluster and getting cold. They are in a semi dormant state and can withstand temperatures below freezing provided that they have enough food and are dry and sheltered from cold winds entering their nest.
Does Fradesii Escallonia attract bees?
Yes, this particular plant will indeed attract bees and butterflies.
Can you earn a living as a beekeeper?
Most people keep bees as a hobby and very few can earn a living from beekeeping.
Where did honey bees first originate?
The first bees evolved from wasps about 50 million years ago in what is now central Africa (although the Earth was very different then), and they slowly spread northwards into Europe, eastwards into Asia, and southwards to southern Africa.
Yes, eagles will eat bees. The design of an eagle's beak allows them to break through tough insect bodies such as those found on hornets, wasps, and other bees.
Why can't we survive without bees?
Bees are vital for pollinating many crops that humans rely on for food. Without bees, these plants would not be able to reproduce and grow, leading to a decline in food production. Additionally, bees play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity in ecosystems.
Bumblebees are generally docile and only sting in self-defense. They are not as aggressive as other stinging insects and will usually only sting if they feel threatened or provoked. Additionally, bumblebees die after stinging, so they are more inclined to avoid using their stinger unless absolutely necessary.
Do bees die when they sting people?
If they sting people many times it may hurt the people but after the bee stings many times then yes it dies.
NO! Bees lay eggs that then hatch into larvae. Birth occurs at hatching! The larvae can develop into nothing other than bees. The birth is not at the emergence of the bee from the pupae stage but when the eggs hatched. A baby chick is still a chicken... a caterpillar is a baby butterfly... a maggot is a baby fly... a bee larva is a baby bee.
How do carpenter bees bore holes?
Carpenter bees bore holes using their mouths. They chew at wood, making it pulpy and soft, repeatedly until they have made a hole big enough for themselves.
Why do house bees chew the nectar?
House bees will swallow the nectar then regurgitate it and hold the droplet at the end of their proboscis before swallowing it again, repeating the process a number of times before depositing it in the honeycomb cell. This serves two main purposes: firstly to help the evaporation of surplus water; and secondly, each time the bee swallows the nectar it adds more enzymes which break the complex sugars down into glucose and fructose, and convert the nectar into honey.
How do honey bees co mmunicate?
Bee communication is very complex and even now not fully understood. Bees communicate by two methods: chemical and physical.
The chemical method -- pheromones -- are the most complex. Bees emit a number of different pheromones for different purposes, probably more than we know about. Examples include:
- A pheromone emitted by the queen assures the rest of the hive that all is well.
- There is a pheromone in bee venom called the 'alarm pheromone'. This attracts other bees to the sting site, ready to sting.
- Bees at the entrance of a hive or in a swarm can emit a pheromone from a gland in the abdomen which attracts other bees to them -- a 'come to me' message.
How do bumble bees survive the winter?
They pretty much just huddle together flexing their muscles for warmth in a big clump in the middle of their hive, and they do very little else until the weather warms up. (The queen bee gets the middle spot where temperature reaches up 80 degree).
Hope this helps,
-Drew
How many babies can a honey bee have?
The queen bee gives birth to all the bee's in the hive and she has millions of sons
How do honey bees avoid their predators?
Flying, sheltering and stinging are ways in which honey bees avoid predators.
Specifically, the insect in question (Apis spp) can respond to predation in one of three ways. A honey bee may choose to either out-fly a predator or seek shelter in a leafy hideaway or the hive. A third option would be standing ground to wield a fearsome stinger.
Where do bees get necter from?
Bees get their nectar from flowers. Flowers produce nectar to attract animals to pollinate them.
Africanized honey bees, which were given the name 'killer bees' by the sensationalist media, are just a particular breed of honey bee (a cross between the Tanzanian honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, and the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera mellifera. As such, they are the same size and have the same appearance as the Western honey bee, and have the same lifespan. Queens live for three to five years; workers can live for up to six months over the winter, but will only live for about six weeks in the summer; and drones can live for about four months, but die during the act of mating with a new queen, and will be evicted from the hive by the workers at the end of summer, and will die of cold or starvation.
