Bees and Beekeeping

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.

Bees eat with their mouths, and they suck nectar from flowers with their proboscis which is a specially adapted mouthpart. The sting is at the other end of the body.

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well honey bees make honey which most people like and even some animals eat it. They also help make one third of the food that is made in america. They help pollinate flowers and even some foods like: blueberry's, pear's, and peaches.

Bees might accidentally come into your bedroom seeking shelter or attracted to the light. Once inside, they can become disoriented and have difficulty finding their way back out, leading to exhaustion and potential death. It's best to safely capture and release the bee back outside if you find one indoors.

An apiologist is a scientist who studies beekeeping. They specialize in the behavior, biology, and ecology of bees and work to understand how to effectively manage and protect bee colonies.

Bees may be entering the house if there are open windows or doors, or if there are cracks and holes in the walls that they can use to get inside. They may also be attracted to food or flowers inside the house. It's important to identify the entry points and address them to prevent bees from coming in.

Follow the bees that have collected pollen on flowers.

they give signals to eachother

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They came with the colonists that came from England to America. The variety of honeybee is Apis mellifera, the European Honeybee.

A buzz of beekeepers.

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No, most of Burt's Bees products do not contain alcohol. The one product that does contain alcohol is the astringent.

The queen will lay very few eggs in the winter, but in spring the rate of egg-laying will increase as more food (nectar and pollen) becomes available, and will reach a peak of up to 2,000 eggs a day in late spring/early summer, then tail off again at the end of the season.

Bees do indeed die once they have stung you. Hornets & Wasps do not die. They are free to sting you repeatedly. Remember they have no malice towards anyone or anything. They only sting when they feel threatened.

Bees drown very quickly. They fly well, but they can't swim at all. When a bee drinks it will do so from the edge of a pool, or off a wet surface.

Some people have a euphoric/mildly hallucinogenic reaction to bee sting(s). I dont recall hearing the same about wasps.

There can be a very small amount of minerals and vitamins (mainly vitamins B and C) in nectar, but this is mainly carbohydrate. Bees also eat pollen, which provides them with protein, lipids, and other vitamins and minerals.

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Yes, bees can indeed die from extreme heat. Bees do not do well in temperatures about 98 degrees Fahrenheit and if they cannot cool down they will perish.

Bees go through four stages of development. The queen lays an egg, which hatches into a larva (which has no sting). The larva is fed and grows, then turns into a pupa, and after a few days a full-sized adult bee emerges from the pupal cell. Although the newly-emerged adult has a sting, its venom glands don't develop until it is about 17 days old. Any bee you see flying will have a fully functioning sting because they don't leave the hive for about the first three weeks of their lives.

In order to be able to fly a bee's body temperature must be around 35oC. While flying, the large wing muscles can generate sufficient heat to maintain this, but if the air temperature falls below about 14oC the bee is no longer able to produce enough heat to maintain its body temperature. For this reason bees do not leave the hive if the air is too cool.

Within the hive, the bees cluster together and the temperature within the cluster will be about 35oC. As the outside temperature drops the bees just cluster more tightly and in this way they can tolerate the low temperatures of winter.

In the summer, bees control the temperature in the hive. As the temperature starts to rise they will fan with their wings to circulate air. If it gets really hot, bees will go out and collect water which they spread over surfaces in the hive. The evaporation of this water helps cool the hive. A bee that is getting too hot in flight will regurgitate a droplet of fluid which as it evaporates will cool its head by up to 10oC.

Below about 10oC bees become inactive due to the cold, and above about 38oC their activity again slows down. They can tolerate temperatures of 50oC for short periods.

A bee can fly at up to about 15 miles per hour (24 kilometres per hour), so they tend not to leave the hive if the wind speed is close to or greater than this speed.