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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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How do artificial bee hives work?
A beehive is an artificial home for bees provided for them by a beekeeper. It is designed to replicate the type of home that honey bees would choose for themselves but with adjustments to allow the beekeeper to inspect the inside of the colony without destroying the bees home.
Courtship in bees involves specific behaviors carried out by males to attract a female for mating. This can include elaborate displays, such as releasing pheromones, performing dances, or offering food. Successful courtship leads to mating, after which the male typically dies.
What causes the tomato leaves and stems to turn yellow and fall off and turn brown and die?
There are many different reasons for this. It can be insect damage, the plants are too close to one another, bacterial and/or fungal damage or too much/too little water.
If there are many small dots or holes in the leaves, this is a sign of insect feeding on the leaves. A spray on poison like malathion or a sevin dusting will do the trick, just do not put poison on the blooms as you can kill your pollinators by mistake.
Plants have a natural defense to overcrowding which limits the growth or even kills it's opponents trying to exist in a confined area. Tomato leaves and stems will turn dark and this will work it's way to the main stem and kill the entire plant. If you can, use a pair of scissors and a 10% bleach to water solution in a spray bottle, spray the scissors and trim any and all discolored leaves on the entire plant. Take these clippings and throw them in the trash and not the compost pile. If you try to compost them, you can pass the disease to another or next years plants. If the entire plant is diseased, yank it up and throw the entire plant in the outgoing trash. Make sure you wash your hands with a antibacterial soap before and after you handle your tomato plants and the scissors too.
Tomato stems can withstand the bacteria in the soil but the leaves cannot. If you can, apply a mulch to keep the dirt from splashing up onto the leaves. When the plant is more developed, trim any of the lower stems closer to the ground to avoid this. Cow hay or wheat straw is a great mulch for the garden as it keeps weeds from growing and adds nitrogen to the soil as it decomposes. it can be plowed under in the spring and repeat with a fresh layer of 1-2 inches of fresh hay.
If you smoke or use tobacco products, wash your hands with an antibacterial soap before you handle your plants as the tobacco related Fusarium virus can infect and kill the tomato plant in a matter of hours. It can be introduced into your garden by another plant such as a pepper plant as well. If you can, grow your plants from seeds and not from stores that stack plants one atop others because as they water the ones on the top, diseases can be spread to the others. If you purchase plants, try to get young ones without blooms, as these are young and ones that have light green to a dark greenish blue tint as these are good signs of a healthy plant. Do not buy or handle the plants with curled leaves as this is the sign of one or more of other potential diseases. There are many other diseases to list and I will add them to this answer in the near future.
Some leave tips will turn brown, dry up and fall off. This is a sign of too much water. if the plant droops, all over, this is a sign of too little water.
What is a star's second stage?
The first stage in a star's life is as a nebula. As the gravitational forces spin faster, the star enters it's second stage, that of a prostar.
Can you leave the bee hive in the attic?
No, it is not a good idea to leave a bee hive in an attic. An abandoned hive may attract foraging wildlife (including and other than bees) while a live hive may pose a real danger for domesticated pets and family members.
Bees are dieing because they are getting confused and getting sick.
Strange as it sounds, this is one of the contributing factors identified by research. Huge truckloads of bee colonies are trucked from one farm to another, from one section of the country to another as different cash crops are blossoming and require pollinating. This constant traveling to different places is believed to disorient and stress the bees making them vulnerable to diseases; and the travel exposes them to different diseases that they may not have developed immunities to. Some of the work to reverse this process is in the hands of the bee keepers themselves and they are beginning to try addressing the problem. If the bees don't prosper, neither do they.
See related question below.
If part of a piece of meat has gone bad can you still eat the rest of it?
ANSWER it's in a container its good if its not in a container it's BAD
What is an earth friendly way to get rid of bees?
A beekeeper will try to remove a wild hive (from a tree, or a hole in the ground) by moving the brood (the bee eggs and larvae) and the queen bee into a portable box hive. Foraging bees will return to the box if it is left beside the old hive, and so long as the queen was moved into the new hive. After nightfall, when all the bees have returned, the hive can be sealed up and taken away.
Of course, the position of the wild hive will determine the difficulty of the whole operation.
I had a swarm set up their home inside the double brick wall of my house. A beekeeper set up a new hive outside with a new queen, and an inverted funnel on my wall. The funnel allowed the bees to come out of the wall, but they were unable to find their way back in, so they went into the new hive and adopted the new queen. Eventually (some weeks), all the bees emerged from my wall and into the new hive. The old queen probably did not survive, as there were no bees returning with nectar to make new honey.
Does a yellow jackets emit a distress signal when it is killed?
Yes, they do, and it can attract others to the area.
they pollinate the flowers, plants, trees in an animals ecosystem theirfore contributing to that animals life cycle
Yes, carpenter bees can eat through wood.
Specifically, the bee in question (Xylocopa spp) favors nesting within wood. The nest is made by rasping mandibles - down around the mouthparts and on both sides of the head - against wood. The end-product will be a main tunnel with only one entrance/exit and tunnelets branching off the main thoroughfare.
What is the similarity of frogs and bees?
Frogs are amphibians, bees are insects - there is no similarity.
Allergies, fear, hearsay, misinformation, previous experience and protective instincts describe why people do not like bees. People dislike and/or fear bees from allergic reactions of their own or of others. They try to make inside and outside environments as safe and trouble-free as possible for children and the elderly, the reactive and the sick.
Why do honey bees live where they live?
Honey bees, in the wild, require a quiet, undisturbed site on which to start a hive. They also need a source of nectar and pollen within flying distance. Bee-keepers will provide the hives and, may even place the hives on moorland during the summer, so the bees have heather blossoms nearby.
Differentiate between aldo and keto sugars with example?
sugars containing aldehydes as the functional group are termed as aldoses eg.glucose,sucrose sugars containing ketones as the functional group are termed as ketoses eg.fructose
Has bee propolis been shown to treat depression in any studies?
Bee propolis has been shown to help stress and may help treat depression. No extensive studies have been done on bee propolis and depression.
