Bee biology: the basics - Wake County Beekeepers
... Larva – stage where bees grow in size Pupa – full-sized larva are capped Adult – emerge as worker, drone or queen ...
... Larva – stage where bees grow in size Pupa – full-sized larva are capped Adult – emerge as worker, drone or queen ...
PDF - Medway Beekeepers
... for every man, woman and child. They have been around a long time, fossil records date back some 410 million years (cf. man 0.5 MY) So what are the defining features that make a creature an insect? l They have an exoskeleton (rather than the internal skeleton of vertebrates) l They are typically mad ...
... for every man, woman and child. They have been around a long time, fossil records date back some 410 million years (cf. man 0.5 MY) So what are the defining features that make a creature an insect? l They have an exoskeleton (rather than the internal skeleton of vertebrates) l They are typically mad ...
Bee Anatomy and Physiology
... ocelli estimate extent of approaching darkness, causing the bees to return to their hives. •Honey Bees use their antennae to learn about their environment: Tiny sensory hairs on each antenna allow them to smell, taste, feel air movements and to communicate with one another •The compound eyes each ha ...
... ocelli estimate extent of approaching darkness, causing the bees to return to their hives. •Honey Bees use their antennae to learn about their environment: Tiny sensory hairs on each antenna allow them to smell, taste, feel air movements and to communicate with one another •The compound eyes each ha ...
Honey bee
A honey bee (or honeybee), in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any bee that is a member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically, from six to eleven species have been recognized. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. The study of honey bees is known as melittology.