Bee keeping

Honey bee notetaking-Mr Davis

Walt note take about bees

• varroa mite-eat bees
• sylva makes wax cells where honey & babies stored
• stores honey on leg
• chews it through glucose and fructose spits onto comb which creates honey.
• 30 - 60,000 bees in hive
• huddle to keep hive warm-job in winter
• 5 kilometres from hive
• fly separately
• 1-4 months
• queen 2-5 years
• when hive is moved more than 1 kilometre they can’t find it again
• smoke makes bee doozy-cold smoke
• tell different bees by smell