Colony Collapse Disorder – 2010
The Secret Death of Bees by Eric Sorensen | © Washington State University It’s not easy being a… [more]
Colony Collapse Disorder
Colony collapse disorder (CCD), or sometimes honey bee depopulation syndrome (HBDS), is a phenomenon… [more]
Hazards To Honey Bee Survial
European honey bee populations have recently faced threats to their survival. North American and European… [more]
Products Of The Honey Bees
The honey bee's primary commercial value is as a pollinator of crops. Orchards and fields have grown… [more]
Beekeeping
The honey bee is a colonial insect that is often maintained, fed, and transported by beekeepers. Honey… [more]
Apis Mellifera
Apis Cerana
Apis cerana, or the Asiatic honey bee (or the Eastern honey bee or the Indian honey bee), is a small honey bee
Honey Bees
Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey
The European Honey Bee
The European honey bee or western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a honey bee. The genus Apis is Latin for
Wild Honey
Honey !!!
Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees (and some other species) and derived from the nectar of flowers.
Formation of Honey
Honey is created by bees as a food source. In cold weather or when food sources are scarce, bees use their
Nutrition
Honey is a mixture of sugars and other compounds. With respect to carbohydrates, honey is mainly fructose
The State Of The Art In Bee Keeping
Colony Collapse Disorder – 2010
The Secret Death of Bees by Eric Sorensen | © Washington State University It’s not easy being a honey bee. A mite with the last name of “destructor” routinely sucks its blood. A fungus augers into its gut, compromising its immune system and robbing it of nutrients. There’s a lot of time on the road—a … Read More...
Colony Collapse Disorder
Colony collapse disorder (CCD), or sometimes honey bee depopulation syndrome (HBDS), is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term colony collapse disorder was first applied to a … Read More...
Hazards To Honey Bee Survial
European honey bee populations have recently faced threats to their survival. North American and European populations were severely depleted by varroa mite infestations in the early 1990s, and US beekeepers were further affected by Colony Collapse Disorder in 2006 and 2007. Chemical treatments against Varroa mites … Read More...
Products Of The Honey Bees
The honey bee's primary commercial value is as a pollinator of crops. Orchards and fields have grown larger; at the same time wild pollinators have dwindled. In several areas of the world the pollination shortage is compensated by migratory beekeeping, with beekeepers supplying the hives during the crop bloom and … Read More...
Beekeeping
The honey bee is a colonial insect that is often maintained, fed, and transported by beekeepers. Honey bees do not survive individually, but rather as part of the colony. Reproduction is also accomplished at the colony level. Colonies are often referred to as superorganisms. Honey bees collect flower nectar and … Read More...
Honey Bee Communication
Honey bees are an excellent animal to study with regards to behavior because they are abundant and familiar to most people. An animal that is disregarded every day has very specific behaviors that go unnoticed by the normal person. Karl von Frisch studied the behavior of honey bees with regards to communication and was … Read More...
The Honey Bee Queen
Periodically, the colony determines that a new queen is needed. There are three general triggers. The colony becomes space-constrained because the hive is filled with honey, leaving little room for new eggs. This will trigger a swarm where the old queen will take about half the worker bees to found a new colony, … Read More...
The European Honey Bee
The European honey bee or western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a honey bee. The genus Apis is Latin for "bee", and mellifera comes from Latin melli- "honey" and ferre "to bear" — hence the scientific name means "honey-bearing bee". The name was coined in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus who, realizing that the bees do not … Read More...
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