24. - Immunity Booster
- Energy Booster
- Soothes Minor Burns
- Anti-Fungal
- Anti-Bacterial
- Natural Cough Suppressant
- Soothes Sore Throats
- Skin Moisturizer
- May Lower Cholesterol
- May Reduce Allergies
- Good Source of Antioxidants
- Sleep aid
and more……
25. ‘BEE’COME INVOLVED
• Read pesticide labels and use accordingly
• Plant a bee friendly garden
• Encourage bee friendly plants in public places
• Become a Beekeeper – local bee club can help
• Geez Beez Hive Maintenance Service
• Geez Beez is interviewing for additional locations
– downtown roof tops, forested areas, gardens,
acreage, or other bee friendly habitats
Africanized bees moved
into Texas from Mexico in October
1990, and migration Arizona (July 1993), New
Mexico (November 1993), California
(November 1994), Nevada (August 1998), Utah (1999)
Talk about some of the ‘interesting things about bees’, pollen, and honey. . . Look at equipment, taste honey (real and store bought), taste pollen . . .
2 words and 1 word . . .
Ladybug – not a bug but a beatle,
Fire Ant – 2 words because they are ants
Firefly – not a fly but winged beetle
So now what is a gaga????
NASS (national agriculture statistics service) Results
2.49 million colonies 148 million pounds of honey in 2011 worth $256 million with 59 pounds per hive
Indiana: 10,000 colonies produces 430,000 pounds of honey 43 pounds per hive
Beekeepers: attitude, pollination services, care, disease management
Last 60 years – producing colonies reduced 3 million
http://www.beesource.com/resources/usda/federal-and-state-bee-laws-and-regulations/
August 31, 1922, Congress passed a law, popularly known as the Honeybee Act, restricting importing living adult honey bees into the United States. This act was amended in 1947, 1962, and 1976
1980’s varroa mites problem still problem
96 degrees Fahrenheit is bee utopia.
3/8” is called ‘bee space’ – more than this, they build comb . . . Less they put propolis (glue)
Colony Collapse – probably mixture of all these
Zombie fly
Neoticicides on seed coatings
Nutrition: protein, carbohydrates, minerals, fat lipids, vitamins, water
3 caste system in some social insects a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
Queen
Viable producer for 2 years
Lays ALL eggs – 500,000 in a life time
Has a stinger but rarely uses it
Pheromone
Drone
Eats, mates, dies
Large eyes
1 in 2000 mate
Get kicked out in late fall
Has no stinger
No father but a grandfather
Worker
No eggs
Feed, forage, protect
Lives 6 weeks in summer
Lives 6 months in winter
Has a stinger and dies after using
All same mom
13 to 17 dads possible
Royal jelly secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of worker bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony, regardless of sex or caste.[2]
When worker bees decide to make a new queen, either because the old one is weakening, or was killed, they choose several small larvae and feed them with copious amounts of royal jelly in specially constructed queen cells. This type of feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.[3] Fed to all but stop feeding to worker and drone after 3 days
The component of royal jelly that causes a bee to develop into a queen appears to be a single protein that has been called royalactin.
Social reproduction
Not # of insects but # of colonies/hives
Each bee is like a cell and the hive is an organism
Swarm is reproduction
First create new queen
Engorge on honey before leaving
30 – 70% of bees leave with old queen
Temporary location before scouts go out to find a new permanent home
This is the time to call a beekeeper before they find way into your attic, wall, or deck of your house
If you see this, call a bee keeper. DNR keeps a list on their Indiana website
Indiana Beekeepers Swarm List
Swarms are gentle – before embarqing on their journey for a new home – lots of honey eaten
Speaking of F18 hornet . . .
Honeybee dies when it stings – yellow jacket can sting multiple times
Honeybee stings to defend home, food – yellow jacket stings to be nasty
Honeybee lives above ground – yellow jacket nests are underground
Honey bee nest is made out of wax – yellow jacket greyish, paper-like substance
Honeybee workers over winter with queen – yellow jacket only queen overwinters
Yellow jacket populous late summer
Protein source for bees
Head butt . . .in the frames after moistened with saliva – keeps from turning moldy
which comes from the nectar that entices bees to visit the flowers
Static electricity builds up and attaches to them,
Whole business around moving thousands of bees around the country following things like almond, citrus, blueberry
