Honey Bee
By Caleb Lovett Cole Cordell
Description of the Honey Bee
Big part of the human’s life.
Pollinates plants.
Produces honey.
Team work.
Drone Bees
Mate the Queen
No Stinger
Life Span 8 Weeks
Different Eyes Spotting the Queen
Medium Size Bee
Worker Bee
Everything to maintain the hive All females Building comb Gathering honey Temperature regulator Born in Spring live 6 week Born in Fall live till Spring Smallest Bee
Queen Bee
Repopulate the Hive Lives less than 2 years Lays 1500 eggs per day Biggest Bee Has Stinger
Comparison
Pollination
Pollen is transferred to reproduce the plants.
Bee’s job to get nectar from the female plant and deposit is in male plant.
Diseases of the Honey Bee
American Foulbrood (AFB) Caused by a virulent spore-forming
bacterium, Paenibacillus larvae subsp. larvae.
Chalkbrood Fungal disease of honey bee brood that
infects the gut of the larvae. It is caused by a spore-forming fungus named Ascosphaera apis that is consumed along with larval food.
Diseases of the Honey Bee
Nosema The disease enters the body of the adult
bee through the mouth and germinate in the gut. After germination, the active phase of the organism enters the digestive cells that line the midgut where it multiplies rapidly
Pest of the Honey Bee
Small Hive Beetle Wax Moths Mice Skunks Bears
BeeKeeping
Management of a colony of bees.
Robs Honey from bees.
Works the bees.
Feeding in Winter
Pictures