https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx Scott Gaug en-us 2017-11-07 16:20:00 UTC 2023-09-09 20:53:39 UTC hello@padlet.com 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/205818396 Pollinatoin is a very important aspect of the econimy. It helps reproduse plants. When a bee pollinates it sucks nectar out of the flower.

At the same time it gets pollen rubbed in the bees hair on its leg and back.

Then it rubs honey on the stigma on the next plant.

Some plant use self pollination but most plant do. cross pollination.

The flower gives the bee a reward(nectar) for pollinating.

Pollination is responsible for about one third of our crops.

Bees can produce larger foods such as fruit better than with no pollination

]]> 2017-11-10 20:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/205818396 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/206293491 First the bee stores nectar in their honey sack. Then the bee returns to the hive. Other workers suck out the honey and chew it to break down the complex sugars in the nectar to two simple sugars, glucose and fructose. Then they deposit it in the wax cells they made. The bees fan it wit_h their wings until it's almost liquid. Then the liquid evaporates. What's left is gooey honey.One hive can make up to 7 pounds of honey in one day. The honey manufacturers put the honey frames on  a machine called an uncapping machine. They scrape the remnants of the wax off manually. They place the frame on another machine called the honey extractor. That forces all the honey out of the frames.They remove any leftover wax cappings The honey is ready to be bottled.

]]> 2017-11-13 15:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/206293491 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/206317099 2017-11-13 16:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/206317099 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/206319116 2017-11-13 16:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/206319116 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207453673 2017-11-15 21:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207453673 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207460563 2017-11-15 22:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207460563 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207615590 First step to the beekeeping process is to study how beehives work and how to care for one. Try to make your bee farm in the spring because that's is when bees are starting to get busy. Next is to get your gear. You will need a bee suit with a hood and gloves, a bee hive. This will have boxes with about 10 frames with pattern wax foundations .You need a smoker to calm and warn the bees that someone is coming so they don't swarm. You will need a new tool to get at the frame. Buy your bees. You can go and catch a swarm or you can get a nuc which is a queen that has a bunch of worker bees. Keeping the bees healthy. But we don't need to worry about that because the flowers bloom all year aroundCheck on the bees every so often to make sure they are ok. Now you collect the honey, you usually do this in the fall. You want the hive to receive sunlight but also to receive some shade so it doesn't overheat. Paint the bee hive with paint to protect is from precipitation. Some people do beekeeping for honey pollination venom etc. There are different types of beekeepers like commercial beekeepers. Beekeepers help the bees take care of themselves by providing them with new queens, feeding them, medications and hives.

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Some beekeeping companies make mead which is a wine 

Wax candles can be made from the wax of the honeycombs

We use propolis which can be made into skin ointments and wood varnish

Bee venom can be used in arthritis medicine 

The extracting of the venom doesn't hurt the bees

Some companies sell pollen for health purposes like immune system boosts and other things

Bees look for pollen as a source protein 

Another food that bees produce is royal jelly

]]> 2017-11-16 12:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207617304 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207617805 Wiggins, Bethany. Stung. USA : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. April 2013. Print.]]> 2017-11-16 12:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207617805 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207624672 2017-11-16 12:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207624672 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207625006 2017-11-16 12:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207625006 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207625547 2017-11-16 12:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207625547 1204566 https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207626284 2017-11-16 12:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1204566/ciqxbop0nomx/wish/207626284