Honeybees and Bumblebees
Most people find it hard to believe that honeybees and bumblebees are two different insects. These two insects are very different, but they bees both have one simple thing in common; they both produce honey. They usually have the same jobs, and rules. Although honeybees and bumblebees have similarities in their jobs and their ways, there are many things that make these insects different.
The two main types of bees are honeybees and bumblebees. You probably never knew but honeybees and bumblebees are very different insects. One of the main differences is their bodies. A honeybee has a slender, wasp-like body, bearing a stronger, more obvious pattern of stripes. A honeybee can only see certain colors including yellow, blue-green, blue, violet, ultraviolet, and also a color known as "bee's purple," a mixture of yellow and ultraviolet.
Bumblebees vary greatly in size, but they tend to be furry, hairy, large, and relatively pudgy. Bumblebees have two pairs of wings, though it looks like they have just one pair since the wings operate together.
One thing that is very similar between these bugs is their jobs. Here are a honeybee’s jobs. These are the jobs that they will do all their life, and not only are they necessary to keep them alive, but they are necessary to keep the whole hive alive.
On day’s one-two, they clean cells. After the worker bee emerges and grooms herself, she cleans her own cell and others so they can store new eggs. Once the cells are tidied up, new eggs can be placed in the cells so more honeybees can be born.
Day’s three-eleven, they feed younger larvae. Workers tend to their younger and older sisters by feeding and caring for the developing and larvae. They check the larvae 1,300 time...
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...ecial cells, the queen puts the eggs from which a new queen will emerge. After the larvae develop from the eggs, the cells are covered with wax.
Soon after the cells are covered with wax, the old queen gathers many of the workers and leaves the hive to start a new colony. The departing queen and her group of workers are called a swarm. Their journey from the hive to find a new home is called a swarming. Left behind in the hive are workers that will tend the new queen and developing larvae.
We’ve looked at many similarities and differences between bumblebees and honeybees. They may sound the same, but they are very different. They have similar jobs, but different bodies. They have different lifestyles, but the same lifespan. They have the same type of Queen, but different homes. If you used to think they were the same thing, well now you know they are very different!
Lily and Zach are the field bees, August is a nurse bee, and the Lady of Chains is the Queen bee. Field bees have great navigational skills and tireless hearts. They go out to the fields everyday and gather the nectar and pollen from all the flowers and return it to their hive. Lily and Zach both have great navigational skills and tireless hearts. Not to mention, they go out every day to help gather all the honey from the fields just like the bees gather nectar and pollen.
Intro: Working around the hives; dedicated and faster with each movement. Honey drizzling in golden crevices; a family unit working together, buzzing in harmony. Bees and beehives is a significant motif in the novel Secret Life of Bees: By Sue Monk Kidd because it represents the community of women in the novel. It also represents Lily Owen’s longing and need for a mother figure in her life. And finally, it was significant because the bees lived a secret life, just as Lily and Rosaleen did in the novel.
Whenever the young bees work, they perform duties resembling the cleaning of cells and carrying dead bees away from the hive.
The adults overwinter in leaf litter and thatch until spring time when the temperature warm up. The adults become active seeking new areas to lay eggs and can be seen walking across pavement. The females lay white, kidney shaped eggs with in grass stems that are hollowed out. It takes about 7-14 days for the white larvae to hatch from the eggs and proceed to live and feed within the grass stem until its third-instar. During the second instars cycle, the larvae eat their way through the grass stem, breaking themselves out. The larvae go on to complete their third instar cycle in the thatch feeding roots and crowns. The larval stage takes about 5 to 8 weeks to complete before pupation occurs in the soil. The pupae are about 1 to 2 inches long and emerge as adults in about 7-10 days. They continue feeding on grass until they find their new overwintering site before temperatures begin to drop
...erms of the upbringing is that from birth, queen bees are treated royally being placed in a queen cell with abundant food supply (royal jelly). The behavior being showed from this scenario is due to the pheromone.
Thomson, Diane. "Competitive Interactions between the Invasive European Honey Bee and Native Bumble Bees." JSTOR. Ecological Society of America, Feb. 2004. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.
Colony Collapse Disorder is a dead colony with no adult bees and a live queen with immature bees still present (United States Department of Agriculture, 2015). The bee decline is in part because of the invasive species that bees cannot naturally adapt to (Tirado, 2014). Varroa mites are a big problem for bees right now. Bee colonies die within 1 to 2 years when infested with varroa mites; they attach themselves to bees and are transported from colony to colony (The University of Georgia, 2015). These mites attach themselves to the inside of a bee’s body and
What do you think when you think of bees? I think of honey, pollination, and soon, new life. According to Walt D. Osborne, “Bees are vital for the pollination of more than 90 fruit and vegetable crops worldwide, including almonds, peaches, soybeans, apples, pears, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers, and strawberries,” (Osborne 9-11) but each year a large percent of hives have vanished due to many different factors such as stress. Most people would declare that the average honey bee is insufficiently important to the world because bees are pests to home owners everywhere, but bees are extremely important to earths’ survival than any other pollinator in the world; they help pollinate most of the world’s agriculture; yet in the recent years bee populations have plummeted rapidly. I am writing this paper to create awareness that the agricultural society ought to stop or lessen the spraying of pesticides/ insecticides on crops, unnatural diets and overcrowding in the hives.
A bumble bee queen will mate and reproduce at the end of summer or early autumn, and then hibernate in the winter. Once impregnated, the queen will feed on nectar, and pollen to get...
In the poem, Honeybees by Paul Fleischman, it is written to show two different perspectives. This is an interesting poem because the two perspectives come from a Queen Bee and a Worker Bee which are completely different levels of authority. Also in this poem the viewpoints talk about how their lives are such opposites. For example, the Queen talks about when she wakes up she is fed by her servants and the worker talks about when he wakes up super early he is immediately put to work guarding the hive. But some compelling sections of the poem is when the two viewpoints say the same statements.
Bees are the type of bugs that sting people for a specific reason. Bees sting humans because of fear and protection. It all starts by trying to kill the bug. When bees fly around you, it means that it is interested to see what the humans are doing. This starts the paranoia of the humans. When the bee is near humans, the humans panic or are annoyed by the bees flying near their face. When the humans reach the certain point of anger, the human swipes at the bee to try to kill it. When they miss, the bee comes back to try to sting them. When the bee goes back to the human, the human will swing at the bee again to try to kill it. Now the bee is angrier than ever. The bee will then go full speed back to the human leading the stinger as the bee
This American toy company filed for trademark on the name “Bumblebee” from the Transformers franchise last July of 2015, and they were granted the rights on December of that same year. Come to think of it, when people hear the name Bumblebee, they would only think of two things: First is the insect itself, and second is the yellow Camaro autobot, Bumblebee from the Transformers film franchise.
The females are able to lay up to 100 eggs at a time that they incubate for two to three
In a few weeks, adult workers will emerge. It is their job to hunt for food and make the nest bigger. More workers will develop and the colony gets very organized. The new workers will take over as caretakers of the eggs, larvae, and pupae. Now the queens only duty is to lay more and more eggs, thousands of them in her lifetime. Many wingless workers develop and help to enlarge the nest into an intricate network of tunnels and chambers that will eventually house thousands of ants.
Bees are small flying insects, buzzing around with its painful stings which always make people afraid and annoyed. What generally relate with bees are their roles in pollination and producing honey and beeswax. So it seems that bees might be nothing to human as it’s easy to find substitutes for honey as flavoring. However, this perception is mistaken. Without bees, aftermath.