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Varroa Mites are the honey bees worst enemy as the females lay eggs on the honey bees larvae and then they feed on the developing bee until it dies.

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“The mite, Acarapis woodi, is a serious and growing problem for beekeepers. The microscopic mite clogs the breathing tubes of adult bees, blocks oxygen flow, and eventually kills them. Also called acarine disease, this condition affects flight efficiency and results in a large number of crawling bees unable to fly.” - according to uky.edu

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The queen is the only reproductive female in the honey bee colony and lays around 1,500 eggs every 24 hours.

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The amount of eggs that she lays is equivalent to the weight of her body which can range from .95 mg to .62 mg.

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The queen bees life span is ranges from  1-3 years but does not possess the working attributes of the worker bee such as the hypo-pharyngeal gland which is used to feed larvae, drones, and the queen.

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In the spring there is from 8,000 to 15,000 worker bees and by early summer there can be up to 80,000 worker bees in one colony.

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Worker bees are smaller and more compact than the queen and worker bees have a proboscis which is what they use to suck out nectar from any part of a flower depending on where the nectaries are located.

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The honeycombs are hexagonal shaped to save space and hexagons have more surface area rather than rectangles or triangles.

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Beeswax is the component in which builds, repairs, and capping the cells in which hold the eggs.

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Beeswax is made out of fatty acids and multiple long chain alcohols from glands in the inner sternites of the abdomen.  To produce 1 pound of beeswax a bee must ingest 6-8 pounds of honey.

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Scientists have found that there is over 200 components in honey bees beeswax! Beeswax has a melting point of 64.5 degrees Celsius and becomes brittle at around 18 degrees Celsius.

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Honey bees are most efficient at producing beeswax from there 10th day of life to their 16th day of life and from its 18th day to its death the beeswax glands decline at a steady pace.

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There is also the wax moth which causes significant damage to the honey bees stored combs.There are other predators such as the bear, small reptiles, birds, and other insects.

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There is also diseases such as american foul brood which is caused by the bacteria Bacillus Larvae and it contaminates the whole colony.

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Nosema is a condition caused by the microsporidia Nosema apis or Nosema cerana.  This microbe attacks the cells in the wall of a honey bee's stomach, where it reproduces and attacks repeatedly, eventually destroying the stomach lining and then killing the bee.

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When a colony swarms, half of the bees go with the existing queen and the other half stays with the new queen that the old queen hatched, so the colony becomes 2 colonies.

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The queen starts to lays an egg in the queen cup where future queens are produced.The queen plans to leave the hive and have the future queen take over the existing hive.

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The queen will leave with 50% to 60% of her offspring and search for a new hive.

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There can also be the after swarm where the next queen will follow the first swarm, known as the prime swarm, and this can happen multiple times until the hive is fully depleted.

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The book reference to the real world in this story is in chapter 22 there is a flashback that was about the bees and how they were going extinct due to the numerous amount of the honey bees predators and pesticides, and how the scientists had to genetically modify the bees to withstand those predators and pesticides, when Fiona sees a piano in the Marriott in which she and Bowen are staying in to escape the raiders.

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The western pollinates 3/4 of the fruits and vegetables we eat, one healthy hive can eat 50 kg of honey, bees have 2 different stomachs and they then regurgitate the nectar to each other, and one pound of honey takes over 10,000 bees and they communicate to do this with waggle dances.

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In the 4th box, I think where you said honey bees, I think you meant honey bees'. In the last box, there should be their. I  like how you included that the hexagonal shape has more surface area than other shapes.

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I like how you included that the queen lays as many eggs as equivalent to her body weight. the picture above is nice because you can understand the size difference. In the 3rd box, the life span of the queen doesn't make sense with the rest of the sentence.

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I didn't know that many mites are bees' enemies. I like how you also included diseases bees could get.

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That's interesting! I thought that swarming was just moving around in a big group, I didn't know that it had to do with hatching a new queen and the old queen leaving the nest.

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I didn't know that bee colonies split in half when they swarm. It was interesting to find out what swarming actually is.

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Wow. That is cool. I  forgot that diseases and super small bugs can do a lot of damage to a bee. Very detailed in a good way.

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I like how you organized the different bees into different boxes on your column. I also liked the size chart.

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That is a good reference, it goes nicely with your research.

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Nice explanation, very detailed.

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I like how you used the flash back about the bees dying from predators and pesticides because you talked about that in one of your subtopics.