Week Two – Bees in HivesWhat a BEE hive looks like

Abdullah ÇELİKVOLUNTEER OF BEE

Honey Bee – Apis Melifera

Queen

Drone

Girl

Hive Wax

Bees in the Hive

Queen Bee- 16 days to

emerge from cell- Can live up to 3

years

The “Girls” in the Hive- Forager (collector of

honey or polen) bees- House keeping bees- Heater bees- Queen carer bees

- They are sterile and don’t lay eggs

21 days to emerge from eggs – summer bees live 6 weeks – winter bees can live up to 6 months

The ‘Boys’ in the HiveDrones mate with the queen- On mating he loses his

endophallus (penis) (in the Queen) and dies

- They are eating honey so much, so after mating time girls kill or leave them far away from hive.

Emerge 24 days from egg and can live up to 4 months

Make Up of the Hive

The bees will instinctively build wax cells – honey comb

The queen will lay an egg in each cell – the egg sticks to the ceiling of the cell

Worker bees fill the cells with royal jelly to prevent the eggs from falling

The development of each member of a hive depends on the needing of hive. If they feed the eggs with queen milk, they will be a queen.

Lifecycle of the Bee

Egg is laid and royal jelly is packed around the egg

Larvae hatches out(born) and is fed by young worker bees

Worker bee hatches out – or Queen – or Drone

Bad Brood(time before born)

Species of Bees

There are over 20,000 different species of bees in the world

The ones you will deal with will be either

Italian Bees (smallish –yellow - cute)

African Bees (thin – black)

Carnolian Bees (medium – cute-ish)