The bee is a marvelous flying machine. She can carry a payload of nectar or pollen close to her own weight. This changes the nectar into honey. Sometimes the nectar is stored at once in cells in the honeycomb before the mouth-to-mouth working because some evaporation is caused by the Finally, the honey is placed in storage cells and capped with beeswax in readiness for the arrival of newborn baby bees.
A baby bee needs food rich in protein if the bee community is to flourish. There are 3 types of honeybees: the worker, the drone and the queen - none of which can live on their own.
Honeybees are one of science's great mysteries because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years, even though the world changed around them. Bees have been producing honey for at least million years. The true honeybee was not known in the Americas until Spanish, Dutch, and English settlers introduced it near the end of the 17th century. Did you know that bees have 4 wings? The honeybee's wings stroke 11, times per minute , thus making their distinctive buzz.
A bee flies at a rate of about 12 miles per hour. How many eyes does a honeybee have? Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing". Each worker bee performs a variety of jobs throughout her short life. In the Summer months, she has an average life span of about 6 weeks. The first 3 weeks are spent doing various tasks inside the hive.
The last half of her life involves field work that includes gathering nectar from flowers. Nectar has a high water content and would spoil very quickly. As a house bee, the worker helps convert watery nectar into ripe honey and store it in sealed wax cells.
But, first the forager field bee must bring nectar back to the hive. Bees have the reputation of being very hard workers. They toil endlessly during the daylight hours to bring the resources needed back to the hive. Water is collected to thin food for consumption and to be used to cool the hive. Pollen is the only protein source for these bees and is essential to rearing baby bees.
But the most time-consuming task for any colony is nectar collection. Each type of plant nectar is slightly different in sweetness and water content. This means our workers must carry a large amount of liquid to the hive for dehydration and conversion to a stable food source. Bee dance language i s used to communicate the location of the best food sources.
Foragers suck up nectar using their proboscis and store in in a special organ called a honey stomach. The nectar is carried back to the hive and transferred to a house bee who will complete the conversion process.
The process of bees making honey is possible due to the combined efforts of many. Along with environmental issues such as available forage and weather, the population of a colony affects the amount of excess food that a hive makes in one year. Everything else being equal, the hive with more workers has a been chance of producing more honey.
I didn't rob the other hives. What I'd like to do is calculate how many bees are returning in a given two minute period, calculate the number of trips per day, presuming that it is parabolic in its distribution throughout the day, turn that nectar per trip figure into, along with the dehydration, into out how much I will get from a given super. Or I can just pour two fingers of whiskey in the glass and watch him fly.
Thanks for the calculations here. Honey, bees, creation - how we take it all for granted. The wonder of the detail in design. It blows the lid off of the evolution theory. Thank you for reminding me of these things.
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