https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6 Kiley Jensen en-us 2017-11-07 19:11:06 UTC 2023-04-28 06:24:12 UTC hello@padlet.com 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204548669 Queen bees are set aside as larvae as future queens, and are only fed royal jelly. Queens are made special cells by worker bees. Since there can only be one queen per hive, upcoming queens fight till the death until there is only one remaining. The current queen would then either fight the new queen, or flee to a new hive. Once the new queen becomes dominant, she will fly away and mate with six to twelve drones. The queen will return a few days later, and start laying eggs about two to three days after her arrival. The queen can then lay eggs for the rest of her life. ]]> 2017-11-07 19:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204548669 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204615225 2017-11-07 22:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204615225 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204616251 2017-11-07 22:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204616251 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617025 While the queen and workers are mostly different, they do share some similarities. They are both born with preassigned jobs, but while the queen only has one job, workers are born with a total of five jobs. They are both female, but the workers don't mate. They both come out of their cells as adults, but workers take 21 days to hatch while queens only take 16. Workers only live for a few months, but queens can live up to nine years. There is only one queen per hive, but there are thousands of workers.  ]]> 2017-11-07 22:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617025 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617065 Three days after their egg is laid, they become a larvae and are fed royal jelly. They are fed “beebread” three days after they become larvae. Worker bees clean the hive for their first three days of adulthood. For the next few days, they tend to young bees. After this they produce wax and build honeycombs. Later they act as the guards of the hives, they sting and warn the hive of intruders. After three weeks, workers hunt for food and pollinate, they will continue to do this for the rest of their lives. A worker bee's lifespan stretches from a few weeks to several months. 

]]> 2017-11-07 22:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617065 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617346 Honeycombs are a mass of six sided cells that are used to build the hive. They use propolis (bee glue) to mend cracked pieces of the honeycombs. They use the honeycombs to house developing bees and the hive's food. It is used in sections, in the middle there is a brood nest which is where the young bees are, and above this there is an area to store honey and pollen. Beeswax is used to make honeycombs.]]> 2017-11-07 22:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617346 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617795 2017-11-07 22:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204617795 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204618083 Bees make beeswax from a gland that develops in the abdomen when they are about ten days old. When the worker bees eat large amounts of honey, the glands turn the sugar into wax. The wax is excreted as white flakes on the outside of the abdomen. The bees then take the wax off of their bodies and into their mouths. The bees chew the wax, then put the wax onto the area of the hive that they are building. Bees make about eight flakes at a time, and they only make it when they are building the hive which is during the first ten to sixteen days of their life. ]]> 2017-11-07 22:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204618083 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204618095 Swarming happens when a new queen arises, and the old queen has to leave. This process starts when the hive becomes overcrowded, and the queen looses her ability to lay eggs. Workers will then build cells for new queens. The new queens will battle to the death, until there is only one left. At this point the old queen and about half of the workers bees will leave the hive and swarm (gather) near a branch or post while scout bees search for a new hive. Once a scout bee has found a new hive, it will perform a special dance. Streaker bees will then lead the rest of the bees to the new hive. ]]> 2017-11-07 22:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204618095 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204619696 2017-11-07 22:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204619696 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204622999 2017-11-07 23:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204622999 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204623289 Varroa destructors are deadly parasites that affect only honeybees. They kill the hive’s developing bees. These parasites have demolished thousands of hives globally, and they are one of the biggest known threats to honeybees. Varroa destructors are also known as honey bee mites. ]]> 2017-11-07 23:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/204623289 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/205542252 2017-11-09 23:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/205542252 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/206062289 The book ties to bees in a few different ways. First of all, Fiona has a memory (page 18) about her, Jonah, and Lissa. They are planting special flowers to help save bees from going extinct, and protect them from their enemies so that they would keep producing honey. The beasts, like bees, can travel solo or as a hive. And when they are a hive, they have a leader or queen. In Stung, five beasts charge the militia camp with a female leading the other four males (pages 97-99). They have the same "queen" mentality as bees do. Lastly, another similarity is that while the can beasts fly solo, they also arrange themselves. In the book it says that the beasts stay together in "hives", like bees (page 147). It also says that if you disturb the hive, it will attack. While Stung is a fictional story, there are definitely similarities between it and bees.  ]]> 2017-11-13 00:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/206062289 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/206062403 Bees have many threats, but they also have some key enemies that are most endangering to them. Bears and Argentine ants destroy hives for the bee's honey. Skunks and dragonflies eat the bees. Wax moths can destroy weak or small colonies by eating the wax from their honeycombs. The bee assassin traps the bees inside of flowers while they are collecting pollen, then it eats them. European and American foulbrood are diseases that are fatal to bees, they will reduce the bees to gummy, lifeless masses.]]> 2017-11-13 00:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/206062403 1204992 https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/206528959 2017-11-14 00:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1204992/hvf5v0a87su6/wish/206528959