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Farmers don't usually breed honey bees, but they do need them for pollination purposes depending on the type of farm. For example, a livestock farmer doesn't need bees but a fruit farmer definitely does need bees.

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Aside from honey what is another benefit that farmers get from bees?

Honey bees benefit the farmer through pollination of many fruit, nut and vegetable crops.


Why do farmers choose to have honey bees pollinate their apples as opposed to other bee species?

Honey bees live in a colony of around 50,000 bees in the season so there are more of them when needed. Bumble bees might have only 50 bees in a nest but are still used when growing fruit in polytunnels.


What is the common name of the Killer Bee?

The Africanized honey bee. Euorpean honey bees were breed with African honey bees, creating a hybrid bee known as the Africanized honey bee, or killer bee.


Why do farmers breed bees into there fruit orchards?

Bees are important pollinators. In fact, there is something of a crisis in agriculture because bee populations are declining in the face of "colony collapse disorder." Unless a cure is found, many vegetable products may become scarce and expensive. BTW, "THEIR fruit orchards," the ones over THERE.


Why are hoey bees important if you want to keep growing plants?

Honey bees pollinate plants. If you were a fruit farmer, you might have to depend on honey bees brought to you by a bee farmer to pollinate your crop. There aren't enough bees or other insects in a given area to pollinate all of a fruit farmers crop without importing honey bees from another area.


Why do Farmers use selective breeding in Corn Plants?

Farmers do this so that the bees can fertilize the blossoms. If this doesn't happen, the apples will not form.


What is sticky and sweet and comes from bees?

honey hence the name honey bees Honey bees also produce bees wax by converting honey.


Why do farmers breed bees in their fruit orchards answers in detail?

Bees are one of our most important pollinators and the major pollinator of fruit flowers. They are also "friendly" pollinators. In exchange for the nectar they give us honey. As beautiful as most butterflies are, when we give them nectar, they give us caterpillars which eat the crop.


Were honey cam from?

Honey comes from Bees like Honey Bees.


How do people interact with killer bees?

Killer bees are prolific honey producers and were un naturaly breed and designed by man as such. In central and south amarican countries bee keepers have learned to work this breed of honey be by trial and error. As a general rule the better a breed of honey bee is at producing honey the more aggressive it is. It has been found that Africanized bees are more sensitive to the colors that the bee keeper wears and even to the darkness of the screen on a beekeepers vail. Because of this keepers of Africanized bees are sure to wear bright clothing and have valid with white screening. Africanised bees have to be worked quickly and skillfully and apiaries are keept far away from residences or potential human interaction.


Are honey bees made out of honey?

No, honey bees are insects that produce honey as a food source. Honey bees collect nectar from flowers and use it to make honey, which they store in their hives as a source of energy. Honey bees are not made out of honey.


Do bees produce honey?

Do honey bees produce WHAT? If the question is "honey", then yes, HONEY bees produce HONEY. If the question is NOT "honey", I'm afraid I can't help you.