Nationale Honigbiene

Was hat es mit den Honigbienen auf sich?

There are around 100 million honeybeehives in the world right now. There are approximately 2 trillion honeybees buzzing around. The bee population has been decreasing at an alarming pace over the years. Here are some reasons to be concerned about the bee’s plight.

Why are Honeybees and Honey so important?

Cross-pollinators are essential for most of the food crops around the world. The fertilization of pollen is required for food such as cucumbers, oranges, and apples. Honeybees travel all over the globe to search for pollen. However, bees are having difficulty finding food sources due to pesticides and climate change. Honeybees travel a lot, going from one flower to the next to find nectar. They transfer their pollen from one plant into another as they fly between them. This helps plants grow healthy and germinates them.

Honeybees are responsible for many of the foods that we eat every day by pollinating plants. Not only humans, but also wild animals need the berries, seeds, and nuts that bees pollinate. Honeybees are also essential for the growth of trees and flowers. These plants provide shelter for many animals, small and large, on the planet. Honeybees take the nectar from plants back to their hives. The nectar is then used by the bees to create honey using their saliva. The only animal that can produce honey is the bee.

Honey has many health benefits. It can help prevent heart disease, diabetes, stomach problems, and other health issues. Honey is also known to heal wounds and destroy bacteria. Honey is used in many products such as candles, skincare preparations and bee wax.

Millions of pounds of honey are produced annually by honeybees. There are thousands of beekeepers in any countries and many more people are employed to create the honey-based products. Many people are backyard beekeepers, in addition to farmers. Beekeeping is a great hobby and enterprise. The people who harvest bees make a huge contribution to the environment.

Pesticides are the biggest threat to honeybees. Pesticides are used by humans to protect their crops from pests. They also kill bees. Pesticides can harm plants’ growth and cause bee deaths. Many pesticides have been banned around the world and many have been withdrawn from public use. There is still much to be done. It is important that farmers are better educated so that they don’t allow these deadly insecticides.

Our survival depends on honeybees. There are more honeybees than other types of bees around the world. According to most estimates, at least 1/3 of the food that we eat each day is due to honeybee pollination. The survival of many other animals, such as birds and insects, depends on pollination. We must do everything we can to prevent the honeybee’s extinction.

Bees work and roles

1. Collecting pollen for the larvae in a hive.

2. They sense heat and coolness in the hive, and use their wings to raise or lower temperature in the brood area.

3. They swallow nectar through their proboscis, which is then mixed in their stomachs and absorbed into enzymes. These enzymes are then stored in wax cells, which are later evaporated to make honey.

4. If they sense that the temperature is too high, they will collect water and deposit it in the hive. Then, they will use the fanning of the wings to cool the brood.

5. They clean, protect and repair the hive.

6. They serve as the “waiters at the bee restaurant”, feeding the queen, larva, and drones.

7. They help with air circulation — cooling and heating the hive. You can enter if you smell right.

Bee colonies are divided into groups that have specialized roles. Guard bees are one example of these specialized bees. There are three types of guard bees: the soldier bees (inside guard bees), the entrance guard bees (outside guard bees) and the guard bees (outside guard bees).

Soldier bees are the fighting and stinging bees. In response to alarms from the outside guard bees and the entrance guard bees, they attack any intruders immediately. The entrance guard bees allow only bees with the right odor to enter the hive. The soldier bees will attack any bee that isn’t smelling right. The outside guard bees are part of the bee colony’s air force. They are the Air Force in the hive. They patrol the airways around it and signal the soldier bees if they see any foreign bees. These “enemy bees” are then attacked and driven away or killed by the soldier bees.

We humans would be able to learn from the bees how to be productive, organized, and disciplined.

Why would you Want to Replace an Old Queen?

Sometimes, it is necessary to replace the queen. The less productive a queen becomes, the older she gets. It could be that she is less fertile or has been injured. Her offspring might have a greater inclination to sting than usual.

The queen is the most important bee in the colony, as she lays over her weight in eggs each day. The whole colony could be in danger if there are problems. Workers will build queen cells if they detect a problem in a hive, such as injury or death to the queen. Queen cells are brood cells that have more queen larvae than the ones that have worker bee larvae. Because the queen bee is the largest in the colony, the cell must be larger. These larvae are treated differently to the worker larvae, and are also fed differently. This diet contains royal jelly, which produces large fertile bees that are not like the worker bees. This means that her daughter will replace the queen. If the queen is still living in the colony, her child will seek her out. They will fight until the end.

The queen creates a chemical that makes bees work. They may not work as hard if the queen is not there. This means that the colony is also affected. One of the best reasons for a queen to be replaced is if her offspring are starting to sting more than expected. If the queen is new or has aggressive offspring, this can happen quickly. There are many honeybee species and strains with different temperaments. If a queen that was expected to produce less aggressive bees suddenly produces more aggressive bees, it is time for her to be replaced.

Beekeepers often have to replace the queen before the workers. This is done to preserve the productivity of the beehive. The queen’s problems can cause a drop in the number of workers and work, and a drop in honey production. The queen is not always seen by the beekeepers in the same way that they do. A beekeeper cannot afford to let workers take care of all the problems in his colony. This may seem obvious but it is often helpful to have someone explain it to you when you first start out. An experienced beekeeper might be more inclined to assume certain things when helping a novice. However, I must confess that I have never met a beekeeper to take anything for granted when it comes to his bees.