Honey bee husbandry has been optimized throughout the long history of beekeeping and scientific study. Honey bee colonies can be kept in standard Langstroth hives that house one queen, seasonally several thousand males (=drones), brood, and up to 60,000 workers. The large number of readily ava...
The scientific name for this bee is Apis (a Latin word that simply means bee). Compared to the 20,000 species of bees, this bee genus contains at least eight different species. The western honey bee is by far the most common, especially for the purpose of making domesticated honey. Her...
Sign in to download full-size image Figure 7.Honey bee hives being moved onto a field of canola (Brassica napus) in Canada. Photograph courtesy of J. L. Osborne. The number of honey bee colonies placed on a crop will be a balance between the cost of the colonies, and the benefits in...
Common Name: Honey bee or honeybee Scientific Name: Apis mellifera Type: Invertebrates Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Apidae Diet: Herbivores Group Name: Colony or swarm Average Lifespan of a Queen in the Wild: Up to 5 years
Braula coeca: devastating bee parasite makes a lousy companion The value of scientific inquiry Don’t miss the Varroa train Apivar vs ApiLife Var vs Apiguard Outwitting the mites The reason mites kill bees leaving a hive full of honey ...
Apis florea: the scientific name for the small honey bee Apis mellifera: the scientific name for the European honey bee. The word mellifera means honey carrier. For derivation, see: Latin for beekeepers. APU: abbr. Apis production unit (worker bee). B bee beard: a swarm of bees hanging ...
We continue our unit on bees with this hands on project. We are using the bookExplore Honey Bees Book by Cindy Blobaum. Originally, I had intended for my six and 10 year old to felt a single bee with me. A large one. An easy one. But when the time came to felt this bee, my ...
However, the Japanese honey bees,Apis cerana japonica,use a different strategy, called“hot defensive bee ball”. It’s a samurai bee style, of course, we are talking about Japanese here! What is the Japanese giant hornet? On its scientific name, Vespa mandarinia japonica, the Japanese giant...
Full size image Many biosynthetic pathways of E-β-ocimene have been found in animals and plants (Fig. S2). By mapping to the KEGG pathway database, we found that honey bee larvae had a possible biosynthetic pathway for E-β-ocimene involving 9 genes (Fig. 4). It appears that in bees...
Sign in to download full-size image Figure 3. Painful local reaction illustrating central tissue damage and surrounding inflammation induced by a honey bee sting.(Photograph courtesy of J. O. Schmidt.) Table I. Pain Rating and Lethality of Common Insect Venomsa SpeciesCommon namePain ratingbLetha...