he bees
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Week Two – Bees in HivesWhat a BEE hive looks like
Abdullah ÇELİKVOLUNTEER OF BEE
Honey Bee – Apis Melifera
Queen
Drone
Girl
Hive Wax
Bees in the Hive
Queen Bee- 16 days to
emerge from cell- Can live up to 3
years
The “Girls” in the Hive- Forager (collector of
honey or polen) bees- House keeping bees- Heater bees- Queen carer bees
- They are sterile and don’t lay eggs
21 days to emerge from eggs – summer bees live 6 weeks – winter bees can live up to 6 months
The ‘Boys’ in the HiveDrones mate with the queen- On mating he loses his
endophallus (penis) (in the Queen) and dies
- They are eating honey so much, so after mating time girls kill or leave them far away from hive.
Emerge 24 days from egg and can live up to 4 months
Make Up of the Hive
The bees will instinctively build wax cells – honey comb
The queen will lay an egg in each cell – the egg sticks to the ceiling of the cell
Worker bees fill the cells with royal jelly to prevent the eggs from falling
The development of each member of a hive depends on the needing of hive. If they feed the eggs with queen milk, they will be a queen.
Lifecycle of the Bee
Egg is laid and royal jelly is packed around the egg
Larvae hatches out(born) and is fed by young worker bees
Worker bee hatches out – or Queen – or Drone
Bad Brood(time before born)
Species of Bees
There are over 20,000 different species of bees in the world
The ones you will deal with will be either
Italian Bees (smallish –yellow - cute)
African Bees (thin – black)
Carnolian Bees (medium – cute-ish)