field trip to Apiary apiary bee home honey bee visit feild trip to bees visit for honey pollen plants nectar plants bee pasturage Foraging Propolis Pollen Foragers Pollination Attracting bees Nectar Foragers Use of Nectar Pollen Bearing Plants

1. Field trip to Apiary

2. Section
One
Study of bee pasturage

3. Study of bee pasturage
The vegetation of flowers and plants
that are available near to the bee hives
so that the bees can feed on the
nectar.
Pasturage is important in apiculture
because the quality quantity and the
taste of the honey is dependent on the
pasturage. As the yield of pasturage
gets better the quality of honey
improves.

4. Propolis is a resinous material obtained mostly from the buds and bark of
trees such as alder, chestnut, other woody plant wounds, and is used to
seal hive or nest breaches and reduce the size of the entrance.
Pollen and nectar are collected by bees
Nectar
Nectar is a delicious secretion produced by flowers' floral and extra floral
nectarines. It is honey's most basic raw product, consisting of dissolved
sugars such as sucrose, glucose, and fructose.
Pollen
Pollen is a highly proteinaceous diet for bees, and pollen plants are
plants that solely produce pollen. Pollen plants offer all of the amino
acids, vitamins, and minerals that bees require.
Propolis
Foraging

5. Section
two
Role in pollination
and
Nectar collection

6. These pollen foragers gather pollen by
travelling through various blooms. Pollen
comb is used to remove pollen stuck to
the body. The pollen is then placed into
corbicula or pollen basket using a pollen
brush. A single bee carries 10 to 30 mg of
pollen, which is about a quarter of the
weight of the bee, and the pollen is
ejected into cells by the middle leg. Pollen
is then combined with honey and stored.
Pollen Foragers

7. Pollination
Pollination seems to be the most
essential function of bees. Plants require
pollination to reproduce, and many of
them rely on bees or other insects as
pollinators.
When a bee gathers nectar and pollen
from a flower, some pollen from the
stamens—the flower's male reproductive
organ—sticks to her body hairs. Some of
this pollen gets rubbed off on the stigma,
or tip, of the pistil, the flower's female
reproductive organ, when she visits the
next bloom. Fertilization and the
development of a fruit with seeds is
conceivable when this happens.

8. Plants rely on bees and other insects to
reproduce, so they've evolved to
become more appealing to them through
time. Plants with open or flat tubular
blooms that have a lot of pollen and
nectar attract bees. The fragrance of a
flower can attract bees, and its brilliant
colours may also attract them.
Flowers that are visited more often by
bees will produce larger and more
uniform fruit than those visited less often.
This beneficial effect of pollination is
most obvious in tree fruit.
Attracting bees

9. Nectar Foragers
Gather nectar from flowers with their
lapping tongues and feed it to hive bees.
To mature the honey, hive bees continually
transfer nectar between the preoral cavity
and tongue, then drop the ripened honey
into cells.
The nectar foragers in a colony acquire
information about their colony's nutritional
status by noting the difficulty of finding
food storer bees to receive their nectar,
rather than by evaluating directly the
variables determining their colony's food
situation: rate of nectar intake and amount
of empty storage comb.

10. Nectar
Nectar is made from the sap of plants'
leaves. The plant takes in carbon
dioxide and water and uses the sun's
energy to make sugar. Photosynthesis
is the name for this process.
The sugar is circulated throughout the
plant (think sap flow from a Sugar
Maple tree). The nectar feeds the plant
as it passes through it. This sugar
supply is used by roots, stems, leaves,
flowers, and fruit to grow.

11. Use of Nectar
Nectar is collected by worker bees
sucking droplets with their proboscis. On
its own, the nectar offers instant energy in
the form of carbohydrate sugars. Extra
nectar is kept in the stomach of the bee
until it returns to the colony.
The nectar is passed from bee to bee
once it returns to the hive. The sugar is
converted to diluted honey by an enzyme
in the bee's stomach. This channel also
aids in the removal of some surplus water.
The unripe honey is then placed in comb
cells, where worker bees use their wings
to evaporate the remaining water until it
turns into honey.

12. Section
Three
Nectar and pollen
yielding flowering
plants

13. Pollen Bearing Plants

14. More Pollen Bearing Plants

15. More Pollen Bearing Plants

16. Nectar bearing plants

17. Nectar bearing plants

18. Nectar bearing plants