Posts Tagged ‘bee varieties’

1. Cross pollination and the consistency of honey
Beekeepers rely on the several thousand varieties of bees to cross pollinate their flowers and create new species of flowers and also several different consistencies of honey. The beekeepers keep a track of the bees and their cross breeding so that they know where the bees originated from and their origin. This way they also know the consistency of the honey that various bees produce.

2. Origination of bees
Bees generally originated from Asia, Africa and Europe and were brought to America centuries ago by immigrants from all over the world. The only place where there are no bees is the Antarctica. Bees are related to wasps, but unlike the bees wasps do not pollinate flowers like the other species of the same category which are beetles, butterflies and flies.

3. The two categories of bees
Beekeepers learn to manage their bees with the two categories which are males and females. Generally there are only a few males and the females that are more in number fight for control of the bee hive with each other.

4. African bees are not aggressive
People feel a fear when they hear about the African bee and think it is a poisonous killer bee, but this is not so and the African bee is not dangerous at all. These bees are the most popular with the bee keepers and also in most of the beekeeping industry too. Clover honey is produced by the African bee and is the most popular and most utilized honey. These bees never attack anyone, but will do so only if they are defending their hive and the safety of the queen bee is a concern. The queen bee lives inside the hive permanently once she becomes pregnant and will never be seen again. Beekeepers remove parts of the hive but never touch the area where the queen bee lives.

Though bees may be of a passive nature by and large, it is quite annoying to have them buzzing around you while you are out at a picnic. This is because there sense of smell is stronger than their eye sight and they come because of the smell of food. It is their sense of smell that guides them to the flowers and pollinates them. Sometimes the food people consume could smell very much like flowers and the bees go for this. Bees sometimes hover around trash cans because of certain foods that are dumped in them. So farmers should be careful when dumping food in the trash cans because this could lead the bees to the trash cans instead of their natural habitat.