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Title: Honey Bee Notes
Description: Everything you need to know about honey bees and how they affect the world, and how we would life would be without them.
Description: Everything you need to know about honey bees and how they affect the world, and how we would life would be without them.
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Topic: Bees
Main Ideas
Honey Bees
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● Known for the production of honey
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● Apis mellifera= Western Honey Bees
● Seven major species of honeybees
○ Apis nigrocincta
■ Located in the Philippine Island
and near Indonesia
○ Apis mellifera (most common)
■ Also known as European/
Western honeybee
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○ Apis Cerana
■ Also known as Eastern
honeybee
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○ Apis Dorsata
■ Also known as giant honey bee
■ Can be found in India, Nepal,
Malaysia and Singapore
○ Apis Florea
■ Also known as red dwarf honey
bee
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○ Apis andreniformis
■ Also known as black dwarf
honey bee
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Roles in the
Beehive
● Bees communicate with each other with
body chemicals, called pheromones
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This allows
them to tell if a bee is a queen bee, a drone,
a worker bee, a bee from the same hive or
not
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● Queen Bee
○ They are the leader of the hive or
colony
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○ Lifespan usually 3- 4 years
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○ Her job is to lay eggs
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○ Able to control the sex of her eggs by
fertilizing or not
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○ Job is to mate with the queen
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○ The Drones that are unusable are
kicked out of the beehive by worker
bees
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○ They take care of the queen
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○ They make honey
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■ Cell cleaning of the comb
■ Guarding/ protecting the
beehive
■ Foraging for the beehive
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Discovered in 1960s and expanded from there
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S in 1987
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Body Parts of The
bee
● Honey worker bees are usually 3/4 of an
inch
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○ It has a sense of touch
○ Sense of hearing, different from
humans’
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○ Sense of odor
○ They use their antennae to
communicate with touch
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● Compound Eyes
○ 2 sets of compound eyes
○ They see the world in polarized light
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○ They see in UV light, which allows
them to see the pollen in darker
spots
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● Mandibles
○ Jaws of the honey bee
○ For worker bees this allows them to
make wax
○ For queen bees it allows them to cut
by biting
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○ Attached to a pair of wings and six
legs, (Fore Leg, Middle Leg, Hind leg)
○ Each leg is six jointed
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○ The hind leg has hair, which works as
a velcro-like basket, in which the
pollen gets attached to
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○ Queen Bee
■ It isn’t barbed, so she can sting
repeatedly without losing her
stinger or life
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● Fossil evidences proves the existence of
bees about 74 millions ago
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This
was not a true apis type yet, just an
ancestor
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● The first true apis was found about 22
millions years ago in Western Germany
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■ The worker bees feed the larva,
(baby bee) only royal jelly,
which causes the queen be to
be larger than others
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○ They take nuptial flights to mate and
keep the hive’s existence
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● Bees forage thousands of flowers for food,
which are Nectar and Pollen (bee bread)
● Nectar is a sweet-like liquid found inside
flowers
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● Honey is made in the beehive from nectar
in flowers
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● Pollen grains are gathered for each flower
that the forage
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● Bees carry pollen from flower to flower,
which is called pollination
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Bibliography
"Amazing Time-Lapse: Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes | National Geographic
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May 20, 2015
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https://youtu
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"Honey Bee Life Cycle
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April 29, 2017
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https://en
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org/wiki/Honey_bee_life_cycle
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" Wikipedia
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Accessed May 02, 2017
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wikipedia
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"Honey Bees - Natural History 1
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June 17, 2010
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https://youtu
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"Honey Bees - Natural History 2
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June 17, 2010
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https://youtu
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Inside A Bee Hive
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http://www
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com/InsideTheHive
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Nag, Oishimaya Sen
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" WorldAtlas
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Accessed May 04, 2017
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worldatlas
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" Native Plants and Ecosystem Services
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http://www
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msu
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ScienceDaily
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https://www
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com/releases/2014/08/140824152245
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WhiteroomUK
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"Life inside a Beehive
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Accessed May 04, 2017
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friendsofthehoneybee
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"Worker, Drone and Queen Bees
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Accessed May 06, 2017
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perfectbee
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"Buzz Pollinators," Vimeo, May 06, 2017, section goes here, accessed May 07, 2017,
https://vimeo
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(Figure 7) Bee using her proboscis
to suck nectar
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Title: Honey Bee Notes
Description: Everything you need to know about honey bees and how they affect the world, and how we would life would be without them.
Description: Everything you need to know about honey bees and how they affect the world, and how we would life would be without them.