Bee - a member of the family that includes ants

Domesticated honeybees are kept in beehives. The bees use the hive space to raise brood and to store honey for the coming winter. A location where beehives are kept is known as an apiary. Beehive beekeeping - Traditional beehives. Traditional beehives provided an enclosure for the bee colony but little more. Because there is no internal structure provided for the bees to start from, the bees fill the space in the hive with comb. The comb is often cross-attached and cannot be moved without destroying ...

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• Beehive beekeeping - Top-bar hives
• Beehive beekeeping - Beehive symbolism
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Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a bee) is the practice of intentional maintenance of honeybee hives by humans. A beekeeper may keep bees in order to collect honey and beeswax, or for the purpose of pollinating crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. A location where bees are kept is called an apiary. Beekeeping - History of beekeeping. Beekeeping is one of the oldest forms of food production. Some of the earliest evidence of beekeeping is from rock painting, ...

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Africanized bees, also known as killer bees, are hybrids of the African honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii (or by other reports A. m. scutellata), with various European honeybees such as the Italian bee Apis mellifera ligustica. They have come to be the preferred type of bee for beekeeping in tropical areas of South America and in Central America because of improved productivity. In most areas the Africanize hybrid is initially feared, because it tends to retain certain behavioral traits from its Afr ...

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• Africanized bee - Difficulty in determination
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• Africanized bee - In the European Bee intentional selection
• Africanized bee - In the African Bee natural selection
• Africanized bee - The Assassin Bee?
• Africanized bee - The lore
• Africanized bee - The danger to apiculture
• Africanized bee - Genetic evidence
• Africanized bee - Behavioral evidence
• Africanized bee - Gentle Africanized bees
• Africanized bee - Queen management in Africanized bee areas
• Africanized bee - How to avoid bees
• Africanized bee - Use caution with power mowers
• Africanized bee - Walk with care in clover and near picnic sites
• Africanized bee - Avoid perfume cologne and scented cosmetics
• Africanized bee - Beware of head-butting bees
• Africanized bee - Wear light colors
• Africanized bee - Water meter chambers
• Africanized bee - Open air hives

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The young of honeybees are collectively called brood. In Langstroth hives each frame which is mainly brood (usually with some pollen and nectar or honey in the upper corners) is called a brood frame. Hives that are rated for pollination purposes are generally evaluated in terms of the number of frames of brood. In modern hives the nursery area is in the brood chamber, which is generally the bottom box. Some beekeepers ensure that the queen will not go into the upper boxes (called supers or honey supers

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Bees learn and communicate in order to find food sources and for other means. Bee learning and communication - Learning. Learning is essential for efficient foraging. Bees are unlikely to make many repeat visits if a plant provides little in the way of reward. A single bee will visit different flowers in the morning and, if there is sufficient attraction and reward in a particular kind of flower, she will make visits to that type of flower for most of the day, unless the plants stop producing reward or weat ...

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• Bee learning and communication - Communication
• Bee learning and communication - Dance language
• Bee learning and communication - Odor plume
• Bee learning and communication - Trophallaxis
• Bee learning and communication - Source

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The modern beehive, designed in 1840 by father Jan Dzierżon, is made up of a series of square or rectangular boxes without tops or bottoms placed one on top of another. Inside the boxes frames are hung in parallel. The minimum size of the hive is dependent on outside air temperature and potential food sources in the winter months. The colder the winter, the larger the winter cluster and food stores need to be. In the regions with severe winter weather a basketball shaped cluster survives in a double box. In temperate and southern regions a wi ...

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During the first year of a queen's life the colony has little incentive to swarm, unless the hive is very crowded. During her second spring, however, she seems to be programmed to swarm. Without beekeeper "swarm management" in the second year, the hive will cast a "prime swarm" and one to five "after swarms." The old queen will go with the prime swarm, and others will be accompanied by virgin queens. Swarming is to the beekeeper what losing all of his calves is to a cattleman. The hive that cast the swarm is often so badly depleted th ...

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Bees communicate their floral findings in order to recruit other worker bees of the hive to forage in the same area. The factors that determine recruiting success are not completely known but probably include evaluations of the quality of nectar and/or pollen brought in. There are two main hypotheses to explain how foragers recruit other workers — the "waggle dance" or "dance language" theory and the "odor plume" theory. The dance language theory is far more widely accepted. < ...

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Africanized bee - The lore. In Brazil, the Afrucab bee and its hybrid are known as the Assassin Bee, for its supposed habits in taking over an existing colony of European bees. According to this lore, their queen waits outside while several worker bees infiltrate the hive by bringing in food, where they will then locate and kill the queen. The new queen will then enter and take over the hive. < ...

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The modern beehive, designed in 1840 by father Jan Dzierżon, is made up of a series of square or rectangular boxes without tops or bottoms placed one on top of another. Inside the boxes frames are hung in parallel. The minimum size of the hive is dependent on outside air temperature and potential food sources in the winter months. The colder the winter, the larger the winter cluster and food stores need to be. In the regions with severe winter weather a basketball shaped cluster survives in a double box. In temperate and southern regions a winter cluster will su ...

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Honeybees probably originated in Tropical Africa and spread from South Africa to Northern Europe and East into India and China. The first bees appear in the fossil record in deposits dating about 40 million years ago during the Eocene period. At about 30 million years before present they appear to have developed social behavior and structurally are virtually identical with modern bees. Apis mellifera, the most commonly domesticated species, is native to Europe, Asia and Africa. It is also called the Western honeybee. There are ...

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Main articles: Varroa destructor Varroa destructor and Varroa jacobsoni are parasitic mites that feed off the bodily fluids of adult, pupal and larval bees. Varroa mites can be seen with the naked eye as a small red or brown spot on the bee's thorax. Varroa is a carrier for a virus that is particularly damaging to the bees. Bees that are infected with this virus during their ...

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Listed by brand name, generic name and length of residual toxicity. Note that the brand names listed here are by no means complete. Pesticide toxicity to bees - Carbamates. Baygon (propoxur) Furadan (carbofuran) ⇒ 7 - 14 days Lannate (methomyl) Lannate LS ⇒ 2 hours + Mesurol (methiocarb) Nudrin (methomy) Pesticide toxicity to bees - Organophosphates. Afugan (pyrazophos) Azodrin (mono ...

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Beekeeping is one of the oldest forms of food production. Some of the earliest evidence of beekeeping is from rock painting, dating to around 13,000 BC. It was particularly well developed in Egypt and was discussed by the Roman writers Virgil, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Varro and Columella. Traditionally beekeeping was done for the bees' honey harvest, although nowadays crop pollination service can often provide a greater part of a commercial beekeeper's income. Other hive products are pollen, royal jelly and propolis, which are also used ...

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Beekeeping leading practices - All beekeepers. Treat for disease only as needed  Over-use or inappropriate use of medications to treat disease or pests will lead to increased resistance to the medication. Label honey with place of origin  Honey, like wine, picks up unique flavors from the flowers and nectars in the local environment. Each varietal will have a distinct taste and mouthfeel. Labeling your honey with place of origin can distinguish i ...

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Honeybee - Insects. Chinese mantid Dragonfly Green Darner Asian giant hornet - Japan Bald-faced hornet Yellow jacket Common Water Strider Goldenrod spider [1] Green Lynx spider Black argiope Six-spotted Fishing Spider Honeybee - Reptiles and Amphibians. Wood Frog< ...

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The honeybee is a colonial insect that is often maintained, fed, and transported by beekeepers. Honeybees collect nectar and store it as honey in their hives. Nectar and honey provides the energy for the bees flight muscles and for heating the hive during the winter period. Honeybees also collect pollen which supplies protein for bee brood to grow. Centuries of selective breeding by humans has created honeybees that produce far more honey than the colony needs. Beekeepers, also k ...

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Like other eusocial bees, a colony generally contains one breeding female, or "queen"; a few thousand males, or "drones"; and a large population of sterile female workers. The female workers mature from nurse bees to become foragers. The foragers die usually when their wings are worn out after approximately 500 miles of flight. Honeybee wings beat at a rate of 12,000 beats/minute. The population of a healthy hive in mid-summer can average between 40,000 and 80,000 bees. The workers cooperate to find food and are widely believed to use a pattern of "dancing" (known as the bee dance or w ...

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Honeybee - Pollination. Main article: Pollination management The honeybee's primary commercial value is as a pollinator of crops. Orchards and fields have grown larger; at the same time wild pollinators have dwindled. In several areas of the world the pollination shortage is compensated by migratory beekeeping, with beekeepers supplying the hives during the crop bloom and moving them after bloom is complete. In many higher latitude locations it is difficult or impossible to winter over enough bees, ...

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See also: Bee learning and communication Honey bees are an excellent animal to study with regards to behavior because they are abundant and familiar to most people. An animal that is disregarded every day has very specific behaviors that go unnoticed by the normal person. Karl von Frisch studied the behavior of honey bees with regards to communication and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1973. Von Frisch noticed that honey bees communicate with the language of dance. Honey bees are able to direct other bees t ...

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