Honeybees come in different sizes and got slightly different characteristics’. For example, the bees of one species (named Apis Florea) builds their nests in trees. This species is found in central Asia. The giant honeybee (Apis Dorsato), which is found in India, Indonesia, and parts of China. Can build honeycombs that are more than nine feet in diameter. Another type of honeybee is the Eastern Honeybee, or Apis Indica, which beekeepers in parts of Asia raise. Probably the more familiar species of all is the Domestic Honeybee, or Apis Mellifera. The Domestic Honeybee is about half an inch in length, although there is some variation. There is short stiff hairs on the bee’s head and thorax, which is the middle of the body. The bee has two large compound eyes and three
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They can tell about the location, distance, size and quality of a food source in the area, and the message helps other bees find the same food source. A honeybee colony has three classes, or castes: drones, workers, and queens. All of the drones are male. The workers are female, but are smaller then the queens. Both the workers and the queens lays eggs; however, only the queens’ eggs get fertilized. Drone’s live in the colony for only a brief season. Their only purpose in the colony is to fertilize the queens’ eggs. The honeybee’s life cycle has four stages. It takes about three days for the eggs to hatch. The larvae also called grubs remain in their honeycomb cells. The worker bees feed the grubs a thick milky liquid called royal jelly. Which is produced from glands in the worker bees heads. About a week later, the grubs transform into pupae. Two to three weeks later, the bees emerge from they’re cells. Queens are the first to emerge, followed by the workers and then the drones. once the queens emerge they fight among their selves until only one survives. The new queen than attacks the old queen, which is forced to leave the
They can tell about the location, distance, size and quality of a food source in the area, and the message helps other bees find the same food source. A honeybee colony has three classes, or castes: drones, workers, and queens. All of the drones are male. The workers are female, but are smaller then the queens. Both the workers and the queens lays eggs; however, only the queens’ eggs get fertilized. Drone’s live in the colony for only a brief season. Their only purpose in the colony is to fertilize the queens’ eggs. The honeybee’s life cycle has four stages. It takes about three days for the eggs to hatch. The larvae also called grubs remain in their honeycomb cells. The worker bees feed the grubs a thick milky liquid called royal jelly. Which is produced from glands in the worker bees heads. About a week later, the grubs transform into pupae. Two to three weeks later, the bees emerge from they’re cells. Queens are the first to emerge, followed by the workers and then the drones. once the queens emerge they fight among their selves until only one survives. The new queen than attacks the old queen, which is forced to leave the