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An apiary (also known as a bee yard) is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept. ... Furthermore, an apiary may refer to a hobbyist's hives or those used for commercial or educational usage.
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Vulture bees are a small group of three closely related North American stingless bee species in the genus Trigona which feed on rotting meat. They substitute meat for pollen, but still make honey from nectar. This unusual behavior was only discovered in 1982, nearly two centuries after the bees were first classified.
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Worker bees are all female, and are all offspring of the queen. But there are males in the hive called drones. Drones fly off to reproduce with other young queens who will start a new colony. There are three types of honey bee within every hive: workers, drones, and a queen.
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Bloom said bumble bees are actually pretty social. They live in colonies with dozens to hundreds of fellow bumble bees. ... While some bees live in hives, a lot of queen bees will find a place to live underground, Bloom said. They'll use burrows that mice or other rodents have abandoned.
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Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila.
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Bees are found on every continent except for Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. ... Bee pollination is important both ecologically and commercially, and the decline in wild bees has increased the value of pollination by commercially managed hives of honey bees.
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Bees are considered farm animals and are allowed within city limits as long as the lot meets the set back requirements (which depend upon how the hive is constructed). Honey bees are not allowed within City limits. Areas zoned residential may not have honey bees.
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Killer bees: a deadly swarm. ... Known only in North, Central and South America, Africanised honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier) are a human-bred subspecies, first bred by scientists in Brazil to be a new honey-producing champion for warmer climates.
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In fact, they may harm it. There are thousands of bee species. Almost all of them live in the wild, hiding away in the ground or in odd cavities, like hollow plant stems. They play a vital role in the ecosystem, pollinating flowering plants.
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Bees are what is known as a keystone species, ensuring the continued reproduction and survival not only of plants but other organisms that depend on those plants for survival. ... No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. '
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The Colony and Its Organization. Honey bees are social insects, which means that they live together in large, well-organized family groups. Social insects are highly evolved insects that engage in a variety of complex tasks not practiced by the multitude of solitary insects.
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Hawaii's only native bees placed on Endangered Species list. ... Jepson said yellow-faced bees can be found elsewhere in the world, but these species are native only to Hawaii and pollinate only plant species indigenous to the islands.
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In fact, one third of our global food supply is pollinated by bees. Simply put, bees keep plants and crops alive. ... We need good, clean food, and so do our pollinators. If bees do not have enough to eat, we won't have enough to eat.
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Social bee species are organized by a caste system. The queen bee runs the hive. She also lays the eggs for the colony. Drones are next: These male bees exist to mate with the queen and are usually present from late spring to early summer.
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Beeswax (cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The wax is formed into scales by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal segments of worker bees, which discard it in or at the hive.
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NO! – Bees Are Not Protected, but in our opinion, Bee control and removal of bees nests and colonies should require accreditation.
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Honey is not bee poop. ... Bees collect nectar from flowers and carry it in a special stomach designed for storing nectar. Inside this stomach, enzymes are introduced into the nectar that assist with it's conversion to honey. Once the bee arrives back at the hive, the honey is regurgitated into a cell in the honeycomb.