Bees of this “age” spend a great deal of time patrolling the hive and evaluating the colony’s needs, and then jump into any needed task. They respond to both “cues” (temperature, excessive nectar, debris or comb damage), and “signals” (such as the tremble dance, the stop signal...
Another example are sunflowers, which, being native to North America, come with a number of insect pests that target the flowers, making the best time to control them being exactly when bees are working the bloom. And then there are other major crops: The pollen and/or nectar of most ...