Garden Insects

Birds, mammals, and insects such as spiders and wasps are known to eat bees. In particular, birds like bee-eaters and woodpeckers are specialized in consuming bees.

Yes. That's why they're used in compost gardening. For they eat the compostable materials, such as food scraps. They digest and then eliminate them as waste. Their waste products add organic matter to the soil.

Certainly talk to him if you are worried. But it is inevitable there will be a few bees left behind after the hive is taken. They were probably away foraging at the time.

Bees can't survive for long without a hive, so will die after a few days.

The exact time will depend on the weather and the availability of nectar. But in any case the lifespan of a bee means that even with a hive they wouldn't live for more than three or four weeks of foraging.

Another point of comfort: The queen will have gone with the hive. Worker bees on their own can't breed. Although female, they've never been mated, and can't be.

When a bee visits a flower to forage for nectar, some of the flower's pollen rubs off the stamens on to the bee's body. The bee then moves on to another flower and some of the pollen on the bee's body is transferred to the stigma, thus pollinating, or fertilizing, the flower.

When a bee starts foraging from a particular type of flower, it will visit only that type of flower for as long as it can. This behaviour means that pollen is always delivered to the correct variety of flower.

Pollination is important because a plant will not develop seeds or fruit if the flower is not pollinated. If the crop plants are not pollinated, the crops will fail.

Bees are not the only pollinators, but they are by far the most important, responsible for most of the pollination done by insects.

It is said that one out of every three mouthfuls of food we eat and beverages we drink are the result of pollination by bees. If we were to lose the bees, we would be hungry.

Research has shown that the highest production figures come from a bee that is a cross between the European honey bee (apis mellifera mellifera) and the African honey bee (apis mellifera scutella). However that cross produces what has become known as the 'killer' bee, because they are less docile and more likely to sting. On balance, this disadvantage outweighs any production advantage so beekeepers tend to use the pure European honey bee.

A general guideline is to add 1-2 earthworms per square foot of soil. However, the exact number can vary depending on the size of the plant and its specific needs. It's best to start with a small number and observe how the plant responds before adding more.

Incomplete is what the metamorphosis of the box elder bug (Boisea trivittata) is called. The insect in question therefore undergoes three, not four, life stages. It will develop from an egg into a small wingless nymph and a winged adult.

Super worms are omnivores and eat a diet that includes fruits, vegetables, grains, and some protein sources like mealworm chow or other commercial insect feeds. It's important to provide them with a balanced diet to ensure they receive the necessary nutrients for optimal health.

worms play an important role in soil ecology. By being continually loosened, stirred up, and aerated by the action of earthworms, soil is made more fertile. Thus, plants grow faster and more nourished.

It is impossible to say where the very first wasps came from. The oldest fossilised wasp found so far is about 115 million years old, and it is thought they date back before the advent of the angiosperms, or flowering plants, some 120 million years ago.

Bees evolved from wasps to feed from the nectar of these flowers, and the oldest bee fossil found so far is a bee body preserved in amber, and dated to about 100 million years ago.

It typically takes about 1-2 months for worms to decompose a banana peel, depending on the environmental conditions such as temperature, moisture, and the number of worms present. Worms help break down organic matter like banana peels by consuming it and turning it into nutrient-rich compost.

No, honey bees do not have backbones. They are invertebrates, meaning they do not have a spinal column or backbone like vertebrate animals do. Honey bees have an exoskeleton made of a tough outer shell that provides structure and support for their bodies.

Bees pollinate throughout the year, but the majority of pollination activity occurs in the warmer months when flowers are in bloom and produce nectar and pollen. Spring and summer are typically when bees are most active in pollinating plants.

Worms are generally nocturnal and more abundant at night, though, they can be found during the daytime. Because worms are attracted to moist areas (like leaving your hose running and flooding the grass in your backyard), they can be found at anytime of the day. They are in great abundance at night, which is a better time to find a worm.
When there is too much humid/water in the ground where the worm lives, the worm comes out for some air

Honey is mostly made from nectar, a sugary liquid which bees collect from flowers.

Sometimes bees will collect a substance called honeydew, which is sugar-rich sticky substance, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.

Worms primarily feed on decaying organic matter such as leaves, rather than living plants like grass. They help break down dead plant material, making nutrients more accessible for plants and aiding in the decomposition process.

well if it's outside not much you can do but if it's inside well that's different.. see you can place tea bags or apple cores inside and it will go away i tried using ice, because i heard rumors about the moisture..i also broke my ankle..

That is one idea. I kept horned lizards (aka horny toads) as a child. However, they only like particular sorts of ants--the larger, black ants. An average meal is roughly 300 ants (I counted) and it will last several days or longer. You would need to provide an environment conducive to the horned toads living there. They tend to hibernate in the winter, even here in Arizona.

Well, technically, yes, but barf is when your stomach cannot handle what's in there. It's REALLY called regurgitation because barfing is an unwilling act, while regurgitation is a forced act on the body. Honey is just the regurgitation from a bee, so it isn't bee's barf, but bee's regurgitation.

----

And, strictly speaking, nectar is carried in the bee's honey crop, which is not part of the digestive tract, so it is not being regurgitated from the stomach -- so is not barf.

Sources of food, interactions, and shelter are reasons why bugs help to keep plants alive. The world's flora can offer bugs food in order to sustain life and places in order to hide from natural enemies, mate during breeding seasons, and rest throughout the less desirable times of the day or night.

In the 'Bee Movie', the bees pull down the honey bear. This is a parody of the reverse situation in nature. For bears like honey so much that they will pull down the hive.

Worms are a diverse group of organisms that have evolved over millions of years through natural selection and genetic mutations. They diversified into different species to adapt to various environments, such as soil, marine, and freshwater habitats. Their evolutionary history is shaped by factors like predation pressure, competition for resources, and environmental changes.

It takes approximately three weeks for a queen bee's egg to develop into a worker bee and 24 days to become a drone bee. The difference in development time is due to the different nutritional requirements and environmental conditions needed for each type of bee to mature.

An authoritative, respected source would be ATTRA [Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas]. According to ATTRA, poultry manure tends to have too much ammonia and inorganic salts. So it should be aged, six months to a year, before use in red worm composting.