The Colony by Warner Hayhurst https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj Warner Hayhurst en-us 2017-11-07 19:11:04 UTC 2024-10-15 03:21:33 UTC hello@padlet.com The Queen 10134031 https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206368931 A queen bee can live for many years while a worker bee will only live for a few weeks or months depending on when they are born. There is only one queen bee per hive, about 200 drones that are male, and 20K to 200K worker bees that are sterile females. The queens will mate with drones a few times in the first few days of their lives so they have enough sperm to keep laying eggs. They lay 200K eggs per year and 1500 eggs per day maximum. The queen makes the insects that keep the world running because without bees we would have very few plants.]]> 2017-11-13 17:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206368931 Honeycomb and How it is Made 10134031 https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206381368 Beeswax is a yellow substance that is produced by pores on the bottom  of worker bees. This substance is used to make the honeycomb that the bees live in and lay eggs in. The workers make the beeswax 8 flakes at a time. The other bees make it by soaking it in their saliva and chewing it up into a thick wax. When honey is harvested from a hive what is left over is the beeswax. Humans use the beeswax for chewing gum, lubricants, adhesive, and cosmetics.

]]> 2017-11-13 17:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206381368 Swarming 10134031 https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206847029 When a colony becomes overcrowded the queen’s egg laying power diminishes for that hive.
The old queen will deposit some of her last eggs in a honeycomb and the workers cover it with wax.
Then many of the workers and the old queen will leave the nest as a swarm.
The swarm will wrap around a post or branch and scouts go out to find a new place to nest.
When the scouts come back they will use a special dance to indicate the distance or direction.
The scouts then go and look at the other spots and see if they are better
“Streaker” bees know where the best nesting area is and will lead the queen and the workers.


]]> 2017-11-14 17:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206847029 Enemies 10134031 https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206849647 Bees have many enemies including bears, Argentine ants, dragonflies, skunks, wax moths that eat the wax colonies make, the bee assassin which waits in flowers for bees to come by, and honey bee mites which latch on to bees and slowly kill them.

Some bees may fall victim to American or European foul-brood. This disease turns a bee into a gummy lifeless mass.

People also kill tons of bees per year. They do this through pesticides meant to kill other insects and weed sprays that end up on their flowers that they pollinate. 


]]> 2017-11-14 17:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206849647 10134031 https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206889994 Video and Quiz]]> 2017-11-14 18:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/206889994 Reference 10134031 https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/207298128 Most of us know that bees contribute a huge percentage of pollination and love flowers. But did you know that in the book "Stung" on page 18 it says that when bees go extinct most plants will go extinct and people are trying to plant lavender to help the bee population. This backs up my research because it says that bees love flowers and my research says that they are willing to entirely move areas to find more of flowers. The main plot of stung is that all of the bees in the U.S. have gone extinct and a lot of creatures have died because of this. This also backs up my research because i said that the queen makes the insects that keep the world running. These were just a few of the ways the book "Stung" supports my research]]> 2017-11-15 16:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/10134031/p5ba12mwapuj/wish/207298128