Basic Beekeeping

Basic Beekeeping Beekeeping basics: Keeping honey bees is a fascinating and profitable pastime that can be enjoyed in several ways. You may want to keep bees for the honey they produce, or you may want to keep them for their services as pollinators, | Basic Beekeeping Beekeeping basics Keeping honey bees is a fascinating and profitable pastime that can be enjoyed in several ways. You may want to keep bees for the honey they produce or you may want to keep them for their services as pollinators or just because you would like the fun of learning about one of nature s most interesting insects. You can keep honey bees almost anywhere in the United States. We would like to alert you to the fact that keeping bees is not for everyone. If you have had an allergic reaction to a stinging insect such as wasp or bee you should use extreme care. A single honey bee sting can bring on serious reactions to some people -- even causing death. Normal reactions include pain and swelling at the sting site. The good news is that one can wear protective equipment designed to avoid bee stings. Basic facts about honey bee biology Honey bees are social insects. This means that they live together in a colony and depend on each other for survival. Most of the bees in a colony are workers. Some are drones whose function is to mate with a virgin queen. Usually there is only one queen in a colony. t J Worker bees are sexually underdeveloped females. xz 4 number as many as 60 000 in a colony. The population of a colony depends on a number of factors such as the egg laying ability of the queen the space available in the hive area where the bees live and the incoming food supply. They are called workers because that is what they do. They collect food and water for the colony build wax comb do the housework maintain the interior temperatures of the hive and guard the hive against intruders in other words they can sting . Female worker bees under certain conditions can lay eggs but because they are not mated they produce eggs that only develop into drones. Drones are the males in the colony. Note the general shape of the drone. Notice two things 1 the head is large and the eyes predominate the head and 2 the rearend of the drone is .

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