Friday, November 5, 2010

Bee

Bees are the name of animal here.
Here is the classification : 
Kingdom       : Animalia.
Phylum          : Arthropoda.
Class             : Insecta.
Order            : Hymenoptera.
Family            : Apidae.
Subfamily       : Apinae.
Tribe              : Apini.
Genus            : Apis.

Bees move by flying. When they fly they are fast. They get food from flower. Part of the flower that bees eat are the nectar. They not eat the nectar, but turn the nectar into honey ! How do they do it ? Here comes the answer : Worker bee go to find flowers. When a worker bee finds a flowers, she takes straw - like tongue and sucks up the nectar. She stores the nectar in her honey stomach. She goes back to the hive and gives the nectar to another worker bee. That worker bee gives the honey to another bee called a house bee. The house bee stores the nectar in a honeycomb. She than fans the honey with her wings to evaporate most of the water from it. That is why honey is not runny. A seal of wax is put on the honeycomb to let it age and turn into honey ! 
One condition is the presence of live bees crops. In general the bees can live in all parts of the earth, except in polar region. This is due in no plants in polar region is the source of bee forage. 
Bees lay eggs. They are metamorphosed. There are four steps of bee metamorphosed
1. Egg : A queen lays soft white eggs in the comb. The egg stage takes place during days 1 through 3. 
2. Larva : In three days, the egg hatches into a larva. Workers feed it bee bread and bee milk. It spins a cocoon around itself. The larva stage takes place during days 4 through 9.
3. Pupa : In the cocoon, the larva turns into a pupa. It now has eyes, wings and legs. It looks more like a bee. This stage is during days 10 through 23, depending on type of bee it will become.
4. Adult : This is the final stage in a bee ' s complete metamorphosis. It is full grown. The bee chews its way out of the cell. It becomes an adult on days 16 through 24, depending on what type of it is.

Bees defense themselves by their sting. Two lancelets supported by hard plates. Strong muscles which are connected to a poison gland surround the sting. The purpose of a sting is for defense, however, once a honey bee stings, it also loses its live. The worker leaves the sting in the body of the victim and when pulling away ruptures the abdomen and thus dies.
Bees enemies is : germs, viruses, bacteria, fungi and enemy attack enemy ant and other bees.

Type of Bees :

Worker


During the first two days of it ' s life, a worker bee cleans it's cell. When they are 3 days old they feed the drones and larvae. During their last days in the hive, they guard the entrance. When the worker bee leaves  the hive, during it's journey  they collects water, pollen and nectar.


Queen

A queen lays all the eggs. For a queen to be born, the workers must feed the larva loyal jelly.









Drone

The drones have big, strong wings. They make up 10% of the hive colony. They use their strong wings for mating flight. After the mating flight, the workers take care of the drones. Before winter, the workers bite the wings off the drone, and kick them out of the hive since they are no more use. They are left to die.                                                                       

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