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Honey Bee

By Caleb Lovett Cole Cordell . Honey Bee . Description of the Honey Bee . Big part of the human’s life. Pollinates plants. Produces honey. Team work. Drone Bees . Mate the Queen No Stinger Life Span 8 Weeks Different Eyes Spotting the Queen Medium Size Bee . Worker Bee .

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Honey Bee

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  1. By Caleb Lovett Cole Cordell Honey Bee

  2. Description of the Honey Bee • Big part of the human’s life. • Pollinates plants. • Produces honey. • Team work.

  3. Drone Bees • Mate the Queen • No Stinger • Life Span 8 Weeks • Different Eyes Spotting the Queen • Medium Size Bee

  4. Worker Bee • Everything to maintain the hive • All females • Building comb • Gathering honey • Temperature regulator • Born in Spring live 6 week • Born in Fall live till Spring • Smallest Bee

  5. Queen Bee • Repopulate the Hive • Lives less than 2 years • Lays 1500 eggs per day • Biggest Bee • Has Stinger

  6. Comparison

  7. Pollination • Pollen is transferred to reproduce the plants. • Bee’s job to get nectar from the female plant and deposit is in male plant.

  8. Diseases of the Honey Bee • American Foulbrood (AFB) • Caused by a virulent spore-forming bacterium, Paenibacillus larvae subsp. larvae. • Chalkbrood • Fungal disease of honey bee brood that infects the gut of the larvae. It is caused by a spore-forming fungus named Ascosphaeraapis that is consumed along with larval food.

  9. Diseases of the Honey Bee • Nosema • The disease enters the body of the adult bee through the mouth and germinate in the gut. After germination, the active phase of the organism enters the digestive cells that line the midgut where it multiplies rapidly

  10. Pest of the Honey Bee • Small Hive Beetle • Wax Moths • Mice • Skunks • Bears

  11. BeeKeeping • Management of a colony of bees. • Robs Honey from bees. • Works the bees. • Feeding in Winter

  12. Pictures

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