Honey bee

notable facts was that honey bees do not die in winter or go into hibernation, they get into a tight ball together and shiver. Another topic I learned was that honey is an extremely efficient cough suppressant—even better than some over the counter medicines. Finally, my favorite thing I gathered from this topic is that honey bees are a tightly run matriarchy. The males, called drones, are just there to mate with the queen. They later are kicked out of the hive by the female honey bees. 2. If…

parts are the head, thorax, and abdomen. The thorax is the middle part of the bee that is between the head and abdomen. In the thorax is where the two pairs of wings and six legs get support from. Do you know how many wings a bee has? The answer is four. Two wings are attached in the front and two wings are attached in the back of the thorax. The wings are hooked together when the bee flies and they only separate when the bee is at rest. This is why it seems like bees only have two wings when we…

The Importance of Bees in the Environment and a Guide to Beekeeping Honey bees live in highly intricate communes or colonies of as many as 100,000 bees; the largest population of bees in a beehive are worker bees, which are unfertile females. Worker bees also perform most of the work in the beehive. The work includes gathering nectar, water and pollen and cleaning and feeding the queen. The other functions performed by the worker bees are cooling or heating the beehive, whenever it is necessary;…

hive cells. When the bee hive is busy during a typical peak season, the worker bee will live for only six week before dying from exhaustion. The handful of male bees found in the beehive is the drone. Some of the characteristics of the male drone include big wings and large eyes. The drone does not perform any work, instead they fly around to seek mating opportunities…

without the use of a pollinator, such as a honeybee. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), “U.S. honeybees pollinate about 100 flowering food crops… responsible for more than $15 billion in increased crop values each year” (Honey). This means that if the consumer wants anything from an almond to a zucchini, they most likely would not have that product available to them without the honeybee. Flowering plants need some way to transfer pollen from one flower to another in…

“Swedish Scientists Say Mead May Be the Key to Fight Antibiotic-resistant Pathogens" written by the WTOP Staff and published on their website, believe that with the right honey and preparations they can get rid of the more resistant pathogens. In this article, Swedish scientists believe that honey and lactic acids that are found in honey bees can be an alternate source other than normal medication for antibiotic-resistant pathogens. With support testing, they have found that they 've been able…

Filipina is a honey business. It offers sophisticated, local varieties of natural wild honey that differ in taste, color, and texture mainly because the nectar source of bees are different and also because of the season and place it came from. Our revenue streams would all come from our sales in: businesses to consumers or as we all know the end customers, direct selling, bazaars, and agents. It is a business that is People, Planet and Profit-friendly. Our main focus is to sell raw and wild…

The issue of invasive species first came to my attention by the creature in the photo on top. The creature is the cane toad (Rhinella marina), which I first got to know from a documentary from National Geographic, Killer Cane Toad. Much has been forgotten from the documentary, hence I looked up the internet to refresh my memory on the issue again. Here is what I found. Cane toad was first introduced into Australia in 1935 by Reginald Mungomery to tackle the issue of canegrubs damaging the cane…

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…

According to Wayne Ellwood “A quarter of all US beekeepers had suffered losses and more than 30 percent of all bee colonies in the country were completely wiped out” Even though bees play a major part in the world for pollinating there has been a major decline in the population. From increased uses of pesticides, insecticide and fungicides being used of crops and gardens the bees who pollinate are picking up those chemicals. Thus bringing it back to the colony and possibly poisoning the whole…