1. Bees! What’s the Buzz?

3. Bee Facts There are 20,000 plus known species of bees.
Honey bee’s fly at 15 miles per hour
Honey bee’s wings flap 11,400 beats each minute – thus the buzzing sound they make.
Bees communicate by dancing and producing pheromones (scents).

4. More Bee Facts Bees are designed for feeding on nectar and pollen.
Nectar for energy
Pollen for protein and other nutrients
Most pollen is used for the larvae.

5. Colony Life
A honey bee colony life is perennial – which means it lasts for maybe two years at most.
There are three types of bees:
Queen
Drone
Worker
There may be 10’s of thousands of individuals in a single colony

6. 3 types of bees: Worker Female
Have glands that produce wax and they shape the wax into the honeycomb shape of the bee hive
Travels outside the hive to collect pollen and nectar.

7. Drone Male No stinger Role in the hive: mate with the queen.
If this bee has not mated with the queen by winter, it is kicked out of the hive.

8. Queen Largest in the hive Mates with drones
Produces royal jelly – which is fed to larvae and the queen herself
Lays 1,500 to 2,400 eggs per day
Queens can live up to 6 years, but generally live in a hive for 2 years
Produces a pheromone “queen substance” that holds the colony together and promotes the workers to maintain the hive.

9. Bee movie clips
How Bees Produce Honey
Silence
of the Bees

10. Why is a bee important? Pollination
It is estimated that over 1/3 of the human food supply is dependent on bees and pollination
Cabbage Grapes
Bell peppers Squash
Watermelon Lemon
Cucumber Lime
Apples Mango
Tomato Apricot

11. More on why is a bee important?
Pollination happens when the bees travel to different plants and spread pollen that has collected on the abdomens and legs of the bees.

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13. Local HoneyBees

14. Honey in Mongolia
In the book Mongolia: the Bradt Travel Guide (2008) the following information about bees was found:
Around 1,500 swarms of bees are registered in Mongolia
In 1959 only 20 swarms were registered
Bee keeping has been developed in several different amigas including Selenge, Darkhan, and elsewhere.
Övörkhangi Amiag produces up to 30 tons of honey each year