By Caleb Lovett Cole Cordell
Big part of the human’s life. Pollinates plants. Produces honey. Team work.
Mate the Queen No Stinger Life Span 8 Weeks Different Eyes Spotting the Queen Medium Size 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
Repopulate the Hive Lives less than 2 years Lays 1500 eggs per day Biggest Bee Has Stinger
Pollen is transferred to reproduce the plants. Bee’s job to get nectar from the female plant and deposit is in male plant.
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.
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
Small Hive Beetle Wax Moths Mice Skunks Bears
Management of a colony of bees. Robs Honey from bees. Works the bees. Feeding in Winter