The Hives

Within living organisms, the main objective for most seems to be survival, but there are many ways to achieve this. While some animals may choose to work alone, other, cleverer animals, have decided to work together as teams instead of individuals. Through this method, many new opportunities are opened for these animals that were not opened before. New types of hunting and gathering styles are now possible that would be dangerous or impossible for single individuals. Faster methods of…

several years, scientists have fretted over the future for the bees and are giving research to try to shed light on the current crisis. This crisis arose during the fall of 2006 as incredible amounts of beekeepers suffered loses. More than one third of hives lost and in extreme cases 90 percent. The boxes would all be empty of all adult bees with just the queen bee left. Though colony collapse disorder has slowed a little over the years, bees are still in cyclical conditions. Diseases are making…

Typically, honeybees will not leave the colony until the immature honey bees have “fully emerged from their honeycomb cells”. A healthy hive, normally, has an approximated 60,000 residents at a time. (Academic OneFile) Most colonies consist of 20 or 30,000 sterile adult females known as workers who carry out necessary tasks of the colony such as securing the hive, fetching pollen and nectar, and processing that pollen and nectar into honey. (Berenbaum) When CCD attacks, colonies that seemed…

known as phenylacetaldehyde, and the hive will be scented with a non-floral chemical. This condition will run for 20 days and will be monitored for three hours per day. The second condition, also running for 20 days will spray the hive with the chemical linalool, another floral scented chemical and a small amount of nectar. The initial hive odour shall remain the same in this condition. The final two conditions shall introduce a small apparatus into the hive set up with a small motion sensor…

During the winter of 2006 and 2007, beekeepers observed that adult worker bees were vanishing from their hives, abandoning the young bees, the queen, and their honey. The hives gradually perished entirely due to the absence of the worker bees that were critical to sustaining them. This phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, is a growing worldwide predicament. In 2006, the total colony…

through to produce honey. The very beginning of the honey process depends upon a queen. Each hive must have a queen. She keeps the hive functioning when the colony is getting too large; the queen will begin laying queen cells. The nurse bees will take care of this cell. Next, comes the mating flight a queen cell that has hatched is called a virgin queen. A virgin queens job is to lay eggs and keep the hive thriving. Naturally, she must mate before laying eggs. But this is where bees are…

The wings of honey bees are designed in a way that they cannot survive cold weather, so they have to stay in the comb during winters. However, the hives were devoid of bees after winter despite of sufficient nutrition and had intact combs with no sign of robbing or dead bees. This symptomatic disease was labeled as colony collapse disorder (CCD) and in order to treat this disease it was important to…

will remain until the excess fluid to be absorbed back by cells, which surrounds the swelling. Infection: Normally hives like condition can occur because of viral infection such as cold, they usually appear after two-three days of infection and sometimes its took a week to appear the hives. Stress and chronic idiopathic urticaria: Stress rash hives are also known as a stress hives or as stress bumps also been linked since 1940(6). They develop due to chronic stress or tension (34) and appear…

youngest of four siblings so while I was in high school my brother graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in environmental science. A short while after his commencement my brother began to grow an interest in the art of beekeeping. Having hives full of bees started off as a hobby, but not long after he partnered with my parents and began an entrepreneurship called Nate’s Nectar, selling natural raw honey. As many already know, honeybees are a main source of cross pollination for…

To bee or not to bee, how the buzz are scientist going to make an artificial bee? Although honey bees can really sting, they are also natures sweetest insect. Honey bees provide with a delicious golden nectar we call honey, but most importantly they pollinate all of our crops. So how are we going to create an artificial bee without knowing their jobs. Bee’s all have different jobs from the queen to to the worker bee. So how are these jobs done in the first place? Bees have a major role in our…