https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl Marissa Leoni en-us 2017-11-07 20:44:42 UTC 2024-12-06 14:19:05 UTC hello@padlet.com 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207510235 2017-11-16 03:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207510235 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207969778 2017-11-17 03:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207969778 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207969983 After learning about beekeeping I have found a relation between "Stung" by Bethany Wiggins. Beekeepers keep the whole bee world functioning. Without them, the population of bees would collapse just as it did in "Stung". Bees pollinate the plants which provide food for animals which provide food for us and without that the world will go through a crisis.]]> 2017-11-17 03:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207969983 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207971032 2017-11-17 03:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207971032 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207971523 2017-11-17 03:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207971523 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207971809 2017-11-17 03:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207971809 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207972481 The beekeeping industry is most highly developed in many countries. They sell honey and beeswax. When producing about 200 million pounds of honey every year, bakers buy lots of it to make crackers, cookies and other baked goods. Companies also buy beeswax to make candles, lipsticks, polishes and other products. ]]> 2017-11-17 03:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207972481 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207973344 A standard hive is the most commonly used by beekeepers. A standard hive includes several removable drawer like supers, or sections. Bees build their honey combs inside the supers on movable frames. Bees can pass through this bee space to all parts of the hive, and the beekeeper can move the frames around. Generally, each super holds 10 combs or frames.]]> 2017-11-17 03:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207973344 1704540 https://padlet.com/1704540/urpxa5gdcpbl/wish/207982289 Bees senses are adapted to signals from flowers using color preferably yellow and blue, not being able to see red, and scent. They smell with their antenna. Proboscis is what bees use to suck up nectar which they store in their honey stomach. Bees pick up pollen as they fly by as it sticks to the hairs on the bees. When the bee finds a good source of food, it shares with the others by dancing. They stay with the same productive plant species until it stops growing. They also recruit other bees in their community to fly to the chosen food sources using their dances and other assistance in the field.

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Bottom board - wooden stand on which the hive rests

 kept it off the ground.

Frames and foundation - wooden frames that hold sheets of beeswax foundation that is imprinted with the shapes of hexagonal cells

Hive body or brood chamber - large wooden box (called a "super") that holds 10 frames of comb.

the brood nest is reserved for the bees to rear brood and store honey for their own use

Either one or two hive bodies can be used for a brood nest

Two hive bodies are common in cold winter regions. Beekeepers in areas with mild winters successfully use only one hive body

Queen excluder - placed between the brood nest and the honey supers 

keeps the queen in the brood nest, so brood will not occur in honey supers.

Honey supers - shallow supers with frames of comb in which bees store surplus honey

Inner cover - prevents bees from attaching comb to outer cover and provides insulating dead air space

Outer cover - provides weather protection

Smoker -  calms bees and reduces stinging.

Hive tool - ideally shaped for prying apart supers and frames.

Veil and gloves - protect head and arms from stings

most beekeepers prefer to work without gloves.

Feeders - hold sugar syrup that is fed to bees in early spring and in fall.

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