https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j Made with fortitude en-us 2022-05-21 11:16:49 UTC 2022-06-19 07:09:54 UTC hello@padlet.com jonahjackson11 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193846271 You can start by helping by planting wildflowers]]> 2022-05-21 11:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193846271 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193878126 The life cycle of honeybees consists of four stages: eggs, larva, pupa and adult. This entire process varies lengthwise amongst the different honey bees. It takes about 16 days for the queen, 18 to 22 days for the worker bees and 24 days for the drones]]> 2022-05-21 12:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193878126 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193883971 2022-05-21 12:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193883971 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193942155 Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, they are known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila]]> 2022-05-21 14:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193942155 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193945976 Only female bees can sting]]> 2022-05-21 14:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193945976 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193946712 The type of flower the bees take their nectar from determines the honey's flavour]]> 2022-05-21 14:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193946712 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193950925

All worker bees are female.

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To get more bees in your garden grow more colour.

Bees love blue and love cluster plants like lavender and rosemary

]]> 2022-05-21 14:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193952779 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193963415 Did you know that bees have 5 eyes, six legs. Most bees have black bodies, many with yellow or brown markings. Others have yellow, red, brown, and metallic green or blue bodies, some with brilliant metallic red or purple markings. Honeybees are dark brown with dark yellow stripes. Bumblebees are usually black with wide yellow or orange bands.]]> 2022-05-21 14:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193963415 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193967084 A hive of bees will fly over 55,000 miles to make 1lb of honey and can create 100lbs of honey in a year.
The reason bees are so noisy is because they beat their wings 11,400 times in one minute!
Honey bees communicate through a series of dance moves.

]]> 2022-05-21 15:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193967084 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193968971 Honeybees live in large "families" and are found all over the world. The honeybee is the only social insect whose colony can survive many years. That is because they huddle together and eat honey to keep themselves alive during the winter months. Honeybees pollinate more than 100 crops in the U.S.]]> 2022-05-21 15:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193968971 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193971292 The Bumblebee is a widely distributed social insect know for its ability to collect nectar from flowers and pollinate plants. Bumblebees are large yellow and black flying insects with a distinct buzz. There is variation in coloration among bumblebees and some species have bands of red, yellow and black.]]> 2022-05-21 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193971292 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193975489 Carpenter bees sure love wood! So much so that many people know them by their nickname: wood bees.
Carpenter bees are tied with bumblebee queens as the largest bees in North America. They live up to three years and can grow to be one inch long. Some experts call them “gentle giants” because, despite their size, they rarely harm people.
In fact, male wood bees don’t even have stingers. Females do, but they only sting when highly agitated. Most often, carpenter bees are a much bigger threat to property than they are to you.
That’s because of the carpenter bees’ nesting habits. Unlike most other bees, they don’t live inside a hive with a colony. Instead, wood bees prefer to live alone. When they’re ready to lay eggs, the female bees will bore into a wooden object. They may choose trees, houses, or even the wooden swing set in your backyard! 
Once they’ve built a tunnel in the wood, the bees will lay their eggs. They’ll feed their young there until the new bees are ready to fly off on their own. During the winter months, adult carpenter bees may return to these tunnels for shelter.
Have you ever seen a carpenter bee in your yard? Many of them have yellow thoraxes. This causes many people to confuse them with bumblebees. However, wood bees' abdomens are dark and shiny. That’s one way to tell them apart from their fuzzy cousins.
In addition to hanging out around wooden structures, wood bees spend time in vegetable and flower gardens. Many people consider carpenter bees to be pests due to the havoc they can wreak on wooden structures. However, these critters also play a part in pollination.
Still, if the grown-ups in your family worry about damage from wood bees, there are some steps they can take. It’s difficult to keep them away from wooden structures. Some adults find it helps to treat the bees’ holes with insecticidal spray. Kids should never use these poisonous substances—leave the hard work to the grown-ups! There are also many natural methods for driving wood bees away. Some people try surrounding the area with sounds or scents the bees don’t like.
As long as they’re not tearing up your property, though, carpenter bees should be left alone. If you have a garden, they might help your plants grow. If you see wood bees in your yard, remember to give them plenty of space. They may be gentle giants, but it’s best not to take the risk of being stung.]]> 2022-05-21 15:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193975489 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193981954 Wool carder bees are very distinctive bees with yellow spots down the sides of their abdomens. They are one of the few bee species in which the male is larger than the female. Females comb wool fibres from plants to use as nesting material, while males fiercely guard areas of these plants for potential mates.
Anthidium manicatum, commonly called the European wool carder bee is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees. They get the name "carder" from their behaviour of scraping hair from leaves such as lamb's ears.
Wool carder bees are found in gardens, farmland, woodland, hedgerows and heaths: anywhere there are flowers to feed on. It nests in cavities, such as old mouse runs, in birds' nests, or in moss mats in lawns. A social insect, nests may contain up to 200 workers.
They don't live in hives, and they don't produce honey. 

]]> 2022-05-21 15:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193981954 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193986106 Small scissor bees are Britain's smallest bee species at just six to seven millimetres in length. They're very slim and have black shiny bodies topped by a disproportionately large head. These solitary bees nest inside abandoned woodworm holes in dead wood and other natural holes they find.Areas surrounded by their favourite wildflowers are most prized by nesting females. The females collect nectar and pollen from various species of campanula and nest inside woodworm holes in dead wood. The males sleep inside flowers.The Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) is an insect in the mason bee family. It is also known as the Hare-Bell Carpenter Bee. It is a pollinator.]]> 2022-05-21 15:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193986106 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193990483 The Ashy Mining Bee is one of the most distinctive spring-flying solitary bees. A species of mining bee, the monochrome females dig nest burrows in the ground and often nest close together to form large groups. Out early in the year, the Ashy Mining Bee depends on early-flowering shrubs for nectar and pollen.Males have similar markings to females, although they are smaller and not quite as noticeable. They have more obvious light hairs along the side of the thorax and also at the top of the abdomen.Females are very distinctive honeybee sized bees with a glossy black abdomen that can look blueish in the light. They have two distinct bands of light grey hair across the top and bottom of the thorax, and white hair on the face.Frequently found in various open sunny places, particularly on sites with sandy soil, including coastal areas, moorlands, river banks, open woodlands, as well as gardens and urban areas. Females create nests underground by excavating burrows in bare/sparsely vegetated earth. They feed from a wide variety of spring flowers and shrubs, including buttercups, hawthorn, blackthorn, gorse and fruit trees.Seen from March to June. Commonly found throughout most of England and Wales with records in the South West and West of Scotland. ]]> 2022-05-21 15:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193990483 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193995412 The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour,  it would have to fly around 90,000 miles -three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world]]> 2022-05-21 15:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2193995412 jonahjackson11 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194007017 The honey bee is the only bee that makes honey ]]> 2022-05-21 16:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194007017 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194025725 Bees actually have four wings and not two]]> 2022-05-21 16:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194025725 jonahjackson11 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194517659 How manny types of Bees are there]]> 2022-05-22 13:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194517659 jonahjackson11 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194648723 In the US, varroa mites are the #1 parasites killing commercially managed honey bees. Pesticide usage and the other stressors makes treatment for the bees own diseases less effective]]> 2022-05-22 17:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194648723 jonahjackson11 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194703508 https://sites.google.com/view/savingbeestogether/home]]> 2022-05-22 18:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2194703508 shayankian123 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2196497784 The red mason bee is a common, gingery bee that can be spotted nesting in the crumbling mortar of old walls. Encourage bees to nest in your garden by putting out a tin can full of short, hollow canes.
Statistics
Length: 0.6-1.1cm
Conservation status
Common.
When to see
March to June
The red mason bee is a small, common bee that nests in hollow plant stems, in holes in cliffs, and in the crumbling mortar of old buildings. It is a solitary bee so, after mating, each female builds its own nest; she lines each 'cell' with mud and pollen and lays a single egg in each until the cavity is full. The larvae hatch and develop, pupating in autumn and hibernating over winter. The red mason bee is on the wing from late March, and feeds solely on pollen and nectar.
The red mason bee is covered in dense gingery hair; the males are smaller than the females and sport a white tuft of hair on the face. There are many similar species of masonry bee that can be difficult to identify.
You can provide a home in your garden for solitary bees by putting some dry grass in an upturned flowerpot and partly burying it. Alternatively, you can make an insect home by filling an old tin can with short lengths of cane, placing them vertically inside the can so that their hollow insides are visible.
Although they might not look especially wildlife-friendly, our roadside verges, railway cuttings and waste grounds can provide valuable habitats for all kinds of plants and animals. The Wildlife Trusts are involved in many projects to make these places as beneficial for wildlife as possible. We have a vision of a Living Landscape: a network of habitats stretching across town and country that allow wildlife to move about freely and people to enjoy the benefits of nature. Support this greener vision for the future by joining your local Wildlife Trust.


]]> 2022-05-23 20:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2196497784 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2198233533 Bees have five eyes]]> 2022-05-24 19:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2198233533 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2199582864 Only female bees sting]]> 2022-05-25 15:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2199582864 shayankian123 https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2222100108 Mourning bees are unmistakable solitary bees with striking white spots down the sides of their abdomen. They are cleptoparasites which will invade the pre-stocked nests of their host, Hairy-footed flower bees (Anthophora plumipes) and lay their own eggs.]]> 2022-06-15 15:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jonahjackson11/52cuz0h95pw5585j/wish/2222100108