Why do bees make hives? Worker honey bees make hives to store honey and feed themselves throughout winter when they cannot go outdoors to forage for food. How are bee hives made? Honey bee hives are made of six-sided tubes, which are the shapes for optimal honey production because th...
FELDKAMP: "This is a lovely honey color. And when I scrape it here, you can see the honey oozing out." NARRATOR: But first the nectar has to be converted into honey. So, the foragers hand the nectar over to the worker bees inside the hive. FELDKAMP: "The bees have an extra sto...
A honeybee starts the honey making process by visiting a flower and gathering some of its nectar. Many plants use nectar as a way of encouraging insects (bees, wasps, butterflies, etc.) to stop at the flower. In the process of gathering nectar, the insect transfers pollen grains from one...
Honey bees are very smart despite having tiny brains. They can learn; they have good memories, and they can communicate using a unique symbolic language.
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Why Do Bees Make Honey? Did you know bees live on honey? It’s true. Bees collect nectar and pollen to make honey to feed the hive. As they eat honey, their bodies make wax. Chewing this wax with a little more honey, the bees build combs. When the time is just right, beekeepers...
Considering leakage occurring in the hairy tongue, we hypothesize that the dynamical extension of hair spacing may help honey bees minimize the effects of leakage to reach maximal nectar intake rate. A mathematical model is developed for determining the optimal hair spacing that can meet the demands...
By Anita Deeley at BeverlyBees.com So your hive died, now what do you do? The first thing to do after you discover a dead hive is to autopsy a honey bee colony and look for signs of disease, varroa and anything else you think may have caused the colony’s demise. Looking through ...
Bees create honey as a highly efficient food source to sustain themselves year-round, including the dormant months of winter—human beings are just along for the ride. In the commercial honey-gathering industry, the excess honey in the hive is what is harvested for packaging and sale, with en...