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