Honeybees and Bumblebees Most people find it hard to believe that honeybees and bumblebees are two

Pollination, produce, honey, bee´s wax, life wouldn't be the same without some of the few products bees create and work their whole lives doing. Bees are dying off, over the past few years the bee population has decreased which means some of our very beloved products have either increased in price or may be hard to find. We as humans that have so much control over this planet should help the bees so they can help us. Honeybees are an essential part of humanity.

The presence of a bee generally scares people. So they swat at it, which makes the bee angry and defensive, which causes the bee to sting. Once the bee stings someone, it dies. Most people might think their death is a good thing. Unfortunately, various species of bees have been added to the endangered species list (Kennedy). Bees pollinate about 70% of the crops used by 90% of the world (What Would Happen) and as of February 2017, 10 million bees have died since 2010 ( Bennett). Bees need to be saved to ensure the Earth’s survival, along with our own.

In the book “ The Secret Life Of Bees “ by Sue Monk Kidd , shows a lot a

It is important that we get our food, but bees also help fertilize different species and make it so we aren’t just eating one plant, but that we have hundreds of different types of produce to choose from.

Bees are unique specie because they also have a similar multicultural society when they are together which is called a Hive. The hive is where all bees go to come and communicate with others of their kind, but most importantly that is where they put their honey. The honey is the most important thing the bees do to provide for us. In the process of making the honey it comes from pollinating flowers. This interesting and unique bee process to make honey is fascinating because each bee has to go to flowers to collect an important ingredient called Nectar. The nectar is basically the base of making honey; it is what makes it sweet and sticky but also gives it the signature look for honey. After the process of gathering nectar from various flowers the bees go to the hive and put it in some sort of honeycomb, which is also a special process. The making of the honeycomb is also important for honey because that’s where the bees import all of their honey gathered. To make the honeycomb, the bees have to make a wax-like material, which is made from sugar from the nectar and is put out of the pores of the bees and makes the honeycomb. Bees do have a special way to provide for us and using what nature gives and makes something that is unique only to their species. During class, we watched a video titled Queen of the Sun: What are the bee’s Telling Us? And throughout the

Bee's need a queen in order to survive. While there are thousands of worker bees per successful hive, the queen, lays the eggs and the thousands of bees worship her; August teaches Lily, “'...they all depend on her to keep [the system] going…

There are three types of bees in a hive; namely, the queen, worker bees and drones. There is only one queen per hive and her role is to produce more bees (4). This is done by mating with the male bees. After mating, the queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day (4). Drones are male bees and their role is to mate with the queen. Drones spend a considerable amount of time inside the hive; in addition, during early winter

EHB and AHB are physically distinct from one another, though not to the untrained eye. EHB worker bees are about 10 percent larger than the AHB subspecies and therefore weigh about 33 percent more (Winston 22). This difference in size in weight can be attributed to the degree to which AHB develop more rapidly than the EHB race. The time spent in each of the four stages of development (egg, larva, pupa, and adult) is shorter in AHB colonies, resulting in the more rapid production of slightly smaller workers. The lifespan of AHB is also shorter. During the summer, EHB workers live 20 to 35 days while studies show that AHB workers live only 12 to 18 days. The same is true in winter seasons; a Polish study shows EHB workers have an average lifespan of 140 days and AHB workers live 90 days. Hence, EHB live longer lives at a slow and steady pace whereas AHB “go full out during their short lives, accomplish more work in less time, but die younger” (Winston 24).

Bees are vital to farmers and ranchers because they’re necessary to keep their crops reproducing.

A honey bee colonies can have populations over 75,000. Bees don’t hibernate, they live off of the honey that they created and they won't freeze because all the worker bees are working so there’s enough heat. The average bee speed in only about 15 miles per hour. As many people know, bees are excellent pollinators. Using their short, hairy legs, bees are responsible for collecting and transporting more than 80 percent of the pollen needed by most fruits, legumes, and vegetable-seed

A bee is an insect that lives in every part of the world except the North and South Poles. Bees are one of the most useful of all insects. There are 20,000 species of bees in the world (154, B: Bees). Bees get their food from flowers through pollen and nectar. They collect tiny grains of pollen and nectar from flower blossoms. Sticky nectar gets attached to the tiny hairs that cover their bodies and is distributed when bees travel from flower collecting nectar (201, B: Bees). Bees make their honey from nectar and use both honey and pollen as food. When bees are collecting nectar for food, they spread pollen from flower to flower. The process of pollination allows plants to reproduce as well as feeds the bees. Bees have become completely dependent on flowers for food. Flowers, in turn, rely heavily on bees to

Pollen and honey are the only food bees eat. The relationship between the bees and flowers evolved through co­evolution when a Bee accidentally landed on a flower and found sugar and since then bees have been relying on the flowers for food and the flower has been relying on the Bee to pollinate it. They have no harmful effects on each other, they help each other a lot and they

Why we need the bees; The bees pollinate most the plants to produce fruits, seeds, and nuts. Like other bees, rusty patched bumblebees important crops for us to eat, such as tomatoes, cranberries and peppers.

There are male drones; they have a fun job. The drones have two different jobs which seems hard but it’s not. The first jobs is just being lazy drones. They do that if they don't have their other job is not needed. The second job for them is watching the beehive to see if their is danger around the beehive. Like skunks,raccoons etc. the drones mostly protect the hive from hive beetles which

Beekeeping isn’t just a hobby. It requires passion, knowledge and patience. If you give in to the temptation of having bees in your life, then you should get ready for it. This book will help you to get an idea about the basics of caring and inspecting bees.