FLOWERS, POLLEN AND NECTAR HONEYBEE ON OREGANO HONEYBEE WITH FULL POLLEN SACK

PARTS OF A FLOWER

SOME PLANTS THAT ARE COMMON IN THE INLAND NORTHWEST Alfalfa Sweet Clover Black Locust Vetch Star Thistle Knapweed Mint Hawthorn Honeysuckle Rapeseed Tumbleweed Bindweed Black Hawthorn Russian Pea Alder Birch Introduced plants, including crops, gardens, landscaping and invasive species introduced to the environment 3

SOME NATIVE PLANTS 4 Willow Current Sagebrush Elderberry June berry Dogwood Oregon grape Penstemon Buckwheat Rosehip Mock orange Chokecherry WillowQuaking aspen BuckwheatPenstamon

NATIVE PLANTS CONTINUED Common Camas Wild Strawberry Phlox Lupine Saxifrages Bluebells Lupine Sunflower Balsamroot Bitterroot Pineapple weed Sticky purple geranium Western blue flag Grass widow Yellow bell 5

FLOWER CHOICES OF BEES Bees choose flowers by color and scent. They are attracted to flowers by scents that are attractive to them. Flowers have patterns (nectar guides) that show bees where to look for nectar. Bees see blue-green, blue, violet, and ultraviolet. UV patterns create a landing zone attracting the bees to the nectary. When the nectar diminishes so does the attraction, and the bees move on to other flowers.

Honeybee on Snowberry Bush

Honeybee on Blueweed Honeybee on Common Camas

Clover Lane White clover has about 45% nectar sugar concentration.

Clover, Dalmatian Toadflax, and Blueweed in front of a wheat field.

13 Star Thistle

BEES ON FRASERA

16 Sunflower Crookneck squash CornOregano

17 Bee Balm Thyme Spanish Lavender

White Lilac

Honey Bees Require Proteins Carbohydrates Minerals Fats Vitamins Water All for normal growth and development 19

Pollen Young bees must consume large quantities of pollen in the first two weeks of their adult life. The consumption could last up to five days of age. 20

21 Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants. When pollen lands on a compatible pistil of flowering plants, it germinates and produces a pollen tube that transfers the sperm to the ovule of a receptive ovary. The individual pollen grains are small enough to require magnification to see detail. POLLEN

Bee with full pollen sacks on legs 22

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24 Nursing duties are normally finished and field duties are undertaken when bees are days old. At the time the requirement for pollen decreases and the chief dietary need becomes carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are obtained from nectar and honey.

Nectar 25 Nectar is the sugar rich liquid produced by the flowers of plants in order to attract pollinating insects. It is also the principal raw ingredient of honey.

26 Although its main ingredient is natural sugar (i.e., sucrose (table sugar), glucose, and fructose), [4] nectar is a brew of many chemicals. For example, the Nicotiana attenuata, a tobacco plant native to the US state of Utah, uses several volatile aromas to attract pollinating birds and moths. The strongest such aroma is benzyl acetone, but the plant also adds bitter nicotine, which is less aromatic and therefore may not be detected by the bird until after taking a drink. Researchers speculate the purpose of this addition is to drive the bird away after only a sip, motivating it to visit other plants to fill its hunger, and therefore maximizing the pollination efficiency gained by the plant for a minimum nectar output.sucroseglucosefructose [4]Utahvolatilenicotine

Nectary Gland of a Flower The nectary is the gland that secretes nectar. It is usually located at the base of the f lower. This forces pollinators to brush against the flowers reproductive structures to reach it.

WATER 28 Honey bees will consume water daily It is best if the beekeeper supplies the water and not the neighbors swimming pool or horse trough. WATER JUG WITH STONES FOR BEES TO LAND ON POND

29 HONEY BEE DRINKING HONEY FROM A CELL

30 COVERED IN THIS LESSON The basic flower Nectar Pollen Water Different Northwestern flowers