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They normally start by locating a dark enclosed, dry space (in a tree trunk, roof or wall cavity - or indeed a man made hive).
The colony of bees including the queen move into this and the worker bees use honey that they have stored in their tummies as they left their original hive to make wax (bees wax). they chew up this wax and shape it into a new comb with hexagonal cells. The queen lays new eggs in this and the new colony starts.
With more bees, more time, and more comb is produced to store honey and brood young and the new hive becomes established.
A resinous substance collected from the buds of certain trees (called Propolis) is used by the bees as a cement or sealant to plug up any gaps in the the walls of the hive so that predators can not get in and the hive entrance is guarded by young workers.
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∙ 13y agoDrone honey bees (males) do nothing in the hive. They leave the hive to mate with virgin queens. The queen honey bee lays all the eggs in a hive and produces queen pheromone, which inhibits ovary development in the workers. Worker honey bees will over the course of their lifetime do all the other jobs in a hive. Worker honey bees have what is called a temporal division of labor. This means that as they age they do different tasks. Newly emerged bees clean the hive. Then they become nurse bees and take care of the brood (the larva or immatures). Next they help make honey and store pollen and build comb. They may then do a brief stint as a guard bee before becoming a forager. Some workers also become undertakers for awhile, hauling dead bees and trash away from the hive.
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∙ 13y agoObviously, they make honey to the sound of the Bee Gees, 'Night Fever' and 'Stayin' Alive', and they have massive raves to the Black Eyed Peas' 'Imma be', or so I heard...
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∙ 14y agoHoney bees raise their young and produce honey in a bee hive.
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∙ 13y agoBaby Bees just live in there and get fed and sleep until they develop into adult bees.
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∙ 12y agoHe puts the queen bee inside the hive and the rest of the bees will follow her.
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Do all bees make the same hives?
Bees don't make hives. A hive is an artificial home provided by a beekeeper to keep his/her bees in.
Why do bees make bee hives?
Obviously bees don't make the hives - humans do that. The hives we see today were designed to make it easier to keep bees and harvest honey. Before the current type of hive, it was necessary for the beekeeper to destroy the nest each autumn in order to take the honey.
Why are bees hive hexaonal?
A bee hive isn't hexagonal. The cells that bees make from wax inside a bee hive are hexagonal and the bees use these cells to raise young bees and to store honey and pollen.
What problem stop bees to make honey?
bees are usually distracted in making honey by human activity, the beekeepers disturb the bees for a good cause to extract the honey from the hive and sell the honey to the store. when a beekeeper comes to take the honey most of the bees go to the beekeeper to sting him, thats why he wears the suit. :D
How does a bee keeper get swarm to go inside the hive?
It depends on where the swarm is to begin with. If the beekeeper is hoping to attract a flying swarm, he/she will set up a bait hive and hope to entice a swarm to enter the hive. If he/she has already collected a swarm from somewhere, he/she will have it in a box. If that is the case he/she has two options. 1) just shake the bees into the top of the hive and then put the roof back on or 2) make a little ramp up to the hive entrance, tip the bees out of the box and on to the ramp and they will probably just walk into the hive.
What is an earth friendly way to get rid of bees?
A beekeeper will try to remove a wild hive (from a tree, or a hole in the ground) by moving the brood (the bee eggs and larvae) and the queen bee into a portable box hive. Foraging bees will return to the box if it is left beside the old hive, and so long as the queen was moved into the new hive. After nightfall, when all the bees have returned, the hive can be sealed up and taken away. Of course, the position of the wild hive will determine the difficulty of the whole operation. I had a swarm set up their home inside the double brick wall of my house. A beekeeper set up a new hive outside with a new queen, and an inverted funnel on my wall. The funnel allowed the bees to come out of the wall, but they were unable to find their way back in, so they went into the new hive and adopted the new queen. Eventually (some weeks), all the bees emerged from my wall and into the new hive. The old queen probably did not survive, as there were no bees returning with nectar to make new honey.
How fast can bees make a hive and how do I identify if they are killler bees in my tree?
they can make a hive in at lest 4 days
Why are bees eating their own honey?
Bees eat their own honey because that's what they live off of throughout the year, especially during colder months when there are little or no blooming plants for the bees to collect the nectar for the hive. To better understand this, we need to know exactly what a hive is, and I think once you understand what a hive is, the rest will make sense. From the dictionary a hive is a place "to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment." That being said, that is what bees do. They store wax and honey for lean months. As a beekeeper, we take the comb from the hive from time to time to extract the honey for our own use. When we do this, the bees naturally continue to make wax, honey, and propolis. They don't realize that the comb is full of honey is gone, they just know that there is an empty space that they need to create more wax and honey in. When fall comes, the beekeeper, if he is managing his hive properly, will leave in the hive as many combs full of honey to sustain them through the bees winter months. That's why bees eat their own honey.
How do you think the hive of bees survive the winter when there are no flowers to feed on?
Foraging bees will fly up to three miles (five kilometres) from the hive to find sources of nectar, but when nectar is not available bees will feed on their stored honey. A bee colony will normally store more than enough honey during the summer to see them through the following winter. When a beekeeper takes honey from the hive, he will make sure the bees survive the winter by providing sugar syrup for them to feed on.
What is a worker bee called that attend to the queen the babies or larvae of the hive?
the bees that take care of the hive and make honey called?" the guardian bees of the hive they take car of the bee hive. the bees that take care of the hive and make honey called?" the guardian bees of the hive they take car of the bee hive.
What are the uses of a honey bee hive?
Most plants require insects to transfer pollen from one flower to another, and most of this pollination is done by bees. Without pollination, plants would not produce seeds or fruit, so bees are not just useful, they are essential for life as we know it.
Do humans take all the bees honey meant for them?
No beekeeper takes all of the honey in the hive. Any honey in the brood frames is always left. In the autumn/fall beekeepers will feed the bees with sugar syrup or similar to make sure the bees have enough stores to see them through the coming winter.
