Beekeeping, care and management of bee colonies. They are kept for honey and other products, for their service as pollinators of fruit and vegetable flowers, or as a hobby.Bees are found in large cities, villages, and farms, from the Arctic and Antarctic to the Equator. and is bred in pastures, forests and deserts. Bees are not domesticated. People who live in man-made dwellings called beehives or hives are no different from those who live in tree colonies.
It has been known since ancient times that bees produce delicious honey, sting, and swarm to increase their numbers. By the 17th century, they had learned the value of controlling smoke and developed screen veils as protection against bites. From the 17th century to his 19th century, the most important discoveries that laid the foundation for modern beekeeping were made. These include the mystery of the queen bee as the mother of almost all of the hive's inhabitants, her intriguing mating techniques, the development of parthenogenesis, hives with movable frames, and the bees raising new queens when the old queen disappears.
Knowing this, people can share colonies instead of relying on natural swarms.It is then followed by the development of a wax comb base, a starter comb where the bees build a straight and manageable comb, and centrifuging the honey. The discovery that combs can be reused by isolation or extraction paved the way for large-scale honey production and modern commercial beekeeping. The identification of bee diseases and their control with drugs, the value of pollen and pollen substitutes in the production of strong colonies, and artificial insemination of queen bees have improved the efficiency of honey production from colonies.
Bees belong to the order Hymenoptera and are a type of honeybee. (For a full discussion of honeybees, see the Hymenoptera article.) Honeybees are social insects known to store large amounts of honey in their hives. A bee colony is a highly complex population that effectively functions as a single organism. It usually consists of a queen bee, a fertilized female that can lay over 1000 eggs in a day. From the number 60,000 sexually immature female, worker bees. And 0 to 1,000 male bees or drones. Most female bees have stingers.
Bees collect nectar, a sweet solution, from the nectar of flowers and sometimes from the leaves and stems of plants. Nectar is 50-80 percent water, but when bees process it into honey, it is only about 16-18 percent water. Sometimes honeydew, the exudate from insects that suck on certain plants, is collected and stored as honey. The main carbohydrate food of bees is honey. They also collect pollen, the dust-like male element, from the anthers of flowers. Pollen provides essential proteins that young bees need to grow. When bees collect nectar and pollen to feed their hive, they pollinate the flowers they visit. Bees also collect propolis, a resinous substance from tree buds, to seal cracks in hives and cover stubborn debris in hives. They collect water to trim their hives and dilute honey when consuming it. A well-located, populated colony can collect and transport up to 450 kilograms (1,000 pounds) of nectar, water, and pollen to the hive in a year.
Honeybees secrete beeswax in small flakes on the underside of their abdomens, forming thin-walled, back-to-back, six-sided honeycomb-like cells. Use of cells depends on colony needs. Some cells can store honey and pollen, while others, usually one per cell, are where the queen bee lays her eggs. The area where bees grow from their eggs is called the brood nest. Normally, honey is stored in the upper part of the comb, and pollen is stored in cells around the brood nest under the honey.
