Who’s in a Bee Colony? One Big Happy Family of 50, in or more

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Who’s in a Bee Colony? One Big Happy Family of 50,000 .8 in or more Mom, a.k.a. The Queen Brother, a.k.a. The Drone Sisters, a.k.a. The Workers .8 in or more About .5 in .6-.7 in Population: 2.5K (or less) Population: 1 (usually) Population: 48K (or so)

About the Workers

Wasps and Bees Don’t Sting the Same Way Honey bee

Sick Bees Can’t Pollinate

More Plants for Pollinators Planted with respect! Where did yours go?

Different bugs live in different places

Nests We Made

Honey Harvest You mostly covered this in an earlier presentation, but the basics are uncap (upper left), place in extractor (center and right top), spin the honey out (lower left) and drain the extractor into some kind of filter to get the last wax (and bee!) bits. The cappings in the filter picture are your highest quality beeswax~!

How We Keep Bees Now! Hives are like artificial trees Movable “frames” “Langstroth Hive:” American invention! We can see lifecycle We can see how to help

Bees See Things Differently Bees See Things Differently! They see these colors brightly But these all look the same/dark