If bees
become extinct so will human beings
If bees
become extinct , so will human beings. It is because bees are responsible for
pollination, which is a source of food. If bees become extinct, there will be
no pollination and no food for humans.
Honeybees
age:
Queen bee -
5 years
Worker bee -
40 days
Drone bee -
40 days
Queen bee:
Among all
the bees, the queen bee is long, elongated and slender. It has a smaller head.
The queen bee is the heart and soul and the all leader and the destiny of the
honey bee colony. She is the reason for nearly everything the rest of the rest
of the colony does. The queen is the only bee and the master of all without
which the rest of the colony cannot survive.
A good quality and healthy queen
means a strong and productive hive with no trouble. The queen's two primary
purposes are to produce chemical scents that help to regulate the unity of the
colony and to lay lots of eggs. Queen bee is bigger in size than the worker bee and drone bee.They lay about 3000 eggs in a day. The healthy Queen bees live longest live of about 5 years. When the
larva of a honey bee is fed royal jelly only then it turns into a queen bee.
Royal jelly is the highly nutritious food of honey bee.
Drone bee:
Drone bees
are male. They are bigger and black. They do not help in the collection of
honey or pollen. These are responsible for copulating with the queen bee to
fertilize eggs.They
contains half number of chromosomes in their cells. Their number ranges from
few to 500 in a hive. Their body are divided into head and thorax. They do not
have stinger, pollen sac, venom gland. They fly out with the Queen bee for
mating outside the hive. Usually several drone mates with the single Queen. The
Drones live for 21 - 90 days.
Worker bee:
Worker bees
are smaller female than the queen bee.
Worker bees do not have reproductive
capacity.They are the
smallest, non-fertile female bees in the bee hive .They live for almost 42 - 45
days. A hive may have 20000 to 80000 worker. worker gather the pollen and
nectar of flowers. To do so, they have mouth parts for chewing and lapping .
Such mouth parts help them to collect the nectar easily. They store nectar in
their abdomen.
The Life
cycle of Honey Bee:
A honeybee
is an insect. The queen bee lays more than 1500 eggs per day after 2 to 3 days
of mating flight. An egg lasts for 3 days.
After three
days , the egg hatches into a larva. The female larva that feeds upon royal
jelly for three days changes into a pupa that produces the queen bee. Other
larva feed on pollen and royal jelly. The larval stage lasts for about 6 days.
The pupa of
bee is inactive. The pupa of a worker bee lasts for 12 days. The pupa of a
drone bee lasts for 14 days and that of the queen bee for 16 days only. The
pupa hatches and grows into an adult bee.
To be an
adult queen bee takes about 15 to 16 days, drone bee takes 22 to 24 days and
that of the worker bee takes 20 to 21 days from the pupa.
What is
hive?
A hive is a
shelter for the honey bees.
What is
honey?
Honey is a
viscous, sticky fluid made by honey bees using nectar. It is highly nutritious.
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