https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp Andrew Mahorner en-us 2017-11-07 16:20:12 UTC 2024-07-27 02:03:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/204441912 First part of the process of beekeeping is to buy the bees. January is best time to order bees for pickup in April or May. Next, you have to choose your hive system. The two main systems are Langstroth, and Top-Bar Hive. Langstroth: Boxes stacked on top of each other, each box contains a spot for the bees to build their comb which stores their honey. Langstroth uses drawers to access it where you can get access to your bees, perform maintenance, and harvest honey. Top-Bar: Frames are horizontally instead of vertically, the bees here make the comb without foundation. Top-Bar uses the bar which contains the comb and honey to access the hive. Third thing is to gather your bee supplies like protective bee clothing and feeding supplies. Make sure you brush up on your information with some books. Last, we have to show the bees their new home by getting them into the hive. So that is it, a few more things are to make sure you check on it frequently to know what's going on, and also make sure you prepare them for winter time. One more tip is you are able to check on the bees based on season meaning like preparing the hive for winter and harvesting in the spring. Then when the honey is ready it is time for you to rob the bees.]]> 2017-11-07 16:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/204441912 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206306451 Honey is the only food produced by an insect that humans consume. Honey has about 16 grams of sugar in one tablespoon. Honey is so many uses like replacing sugar, putting on food, sweetening drinks, and even baking. If you store it correctly it will last for a very long time. To store it properly you have to keep it in a container that is tightly sealed. Honey sold raw still has all the pollen, enzymes, and other micronutrients which are usually filtered out through the processing with heat. First, the bees collect nectar and take it to the hive. When they get the nectar they have glands which secrete an enzyme in their mouths that mix with the nectar. When they get to the hive they regurgitate the nectar into another bee’s mouth. Over the course of an hour they chew the nectar and change it into simple sugars to have bacteria resistance when stored in the honeycomb. Next, in the hive they drop the nectar in honeycombs which are made by the bees out of wax. In the hive they fan their wings to reduce the water content. Once it is thick they use their abdomen to put a layer of liquid that turns into wax over the honeycomb.

After this the beekeepers come in scrape of the wax and rob the honeycombs.

]]> 2017-11-13 15:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206306451 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206317510 The beekeeping industry was very popular but everybody was interested in wax and honey not the flowers and crops they pollinate. By mid-1800’s they were purchasing and importing a lot of these insects. They ended up all across the United States. Bees usually have hundreds of drones, thousands of workers, and a queen. Queens can live up to 7 years. Other bees can usually only live for 6 months. Worker bees care for the queen, feed the brood, guard and build, and foraging for nectar and pollen. The drones only purpose is to mate with the queen bee. The queen lays eggs up to 250,000 a year and as many as a million - 2 million in their life. When a new queen is about to be born the old queen and half the hive go find somewhere else where scouting worker bees have been found. Bees usually live in colonies with about 60,000 other bees.]]> 2017-11-13 16:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206317510 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206317722 Plant Pollination is the vital reproduction in plants. Pollination is used for seeds and fruits that are used to grow more plants. Animals might eat those seeds and then plant them through their droppings. To pollinate a plant it involves transferring pollen from the male part to the female part of the plant. In some cases their need to be multiple plants involved like carrying from one plant to another. It is estimated that bees pollinate ⅓ of our food. Bees don’t pollinate all plants as good as some other insects yet bees are really convenient. Bees are studied a lot and have multiple uses like producing honey or pollinating plants. Other bees like bumblebees are useful to they have been used for a while to pollinate tomatoes. The bees pollinate by collecting nectar and pollen sticking to their bodies so when the fly to the next plant they are carrying that pollen. They can pollinate many crops like apples, cranberries, and melons. A lot of crops depend on be pollination because without anything pollinating they can’t reproduce correctly. Since a lot of crops depend on bees if they start to die and decreasing in numbers then our source of oxygen will start dropping a lot because we get a lot of oxygen from plants. It works out so well because there are so many bees all around the world that are producing every day.]]> 2017-11-13 16:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206317722 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206779439  ]]> 2017-11-14 15:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206779439 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206782524  ]]> 2017-11-14 15:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/206782524 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/207466324 This is related to Stung because in the book the main character (Fiona) has a tattoo that was from a vaccine that was made because of the honeybee population decreasing by a lot. Honey is now very valuable because it is rare now since there are no more bees. ]]> 2017-11-15 22:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/207466324 1704744 https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/207467305 2017-11-15 22:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1704744/tyy3wj5cqzsp/wish/207467305