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MONTHLY REPORT: BEE

by Meena Pandey | 01-06-2020 13:13 recommendations 0

Life cycle of honeybee is very informative to understand their social behavior, communication and developmental aspects. Honey and wax are valuable products of0 honeybees. Besides, they also help in pollination of various crops. Thus, it is necessary to learn about bee colony and their development 

Life cycle: Honey bees are holometabolous insects that have four different stages of development.

Eggs : Queen starts laying three to four days after mating. She lays as many as 2000 eggs in a day. Eggs are creamy white in color and banana shaped. Eggs hatch in 3 days.

Larvae: Known as grubs, they have no legs and eyes. All grubs feed on 'royal jelly' for the first 3 days. Thereafter, workers and drones are given 'bee bread'. This stage remains 7 days for drone, 5 days for queen and worker.

Pupae: On about 9th day, cells containing grubs are sealed with a wax cap. Pupalstage passes inside the sealed chamber. Grub secretes a thin silken cocoon around itself. This stage lasts 8 days for queen, 13 days for worker, and 14 days for drone.

 Adults : They come out from the cell by making hole through the cap. They are differentiated into three different castes.

Queen: She is bigger in size than drones and workers. Queen is the only fertile female in a hive, hatched form fertile eggs. Her grub stage is specially fed on royal jelly. Her duty is to lay eggs and regenerate the colony.

Drones: They are intermediate in size. They develop parthenogenetically from the unfertilized eggs. They fertilize queen and may sometimes regulate the temperature inside the hive.

Workers: They are the smallest members of the colony, coming out of fertile eggs, but unable to reproduce. Workers possess various structures in their legs such as comb, pollen press and pollen basket. They perform various activities, like secretion of wax and comb foundation, cleaning of cells in which queen lays eggs, feeding the queen and grubs, collecting pollen and nectar, producing honey, regulating temperature and guarding hive against robber bees.

 

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18 Comments

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Kushal dai.
    Posted 02-07-2020 23:01

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Sang su mentor.
    Posted 02-07-2020 23:01

Kushal Naharki

  • Kushal Naharki says :
    Hello Meena

    I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
    Thank you for your report about Bee

    Green Cheers from Nepal :)
    Keep writing great reports.
    We are eager to read more reports from you.

    Regards,
    Kushal Naharki

    Posted 18-06-2020 21:44

  • Sang Su Mentor says :
    Hi Meena Pandey, this is a mentor, Sang Su Lee.

    Thank you for your elaborate explanation of how bees become adults from larvae. Bees perform essential works in the ecosystem. However, continuous electromagnetic wave is disturbing bees from returning to their homes. Many bees are dying. I watched the movie where bees are replaced by drones that look like bees. In the future, if we do not care enough about bees, this might happen.

    Green Cheers~!
    Posted 10-06-2020 18:30

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Shreya.
    Posted 03-06-2020 16:07

  • Shreya Aryal says :
    Hello Meena,
    I hope you are doing good with your works.
    Bees are very important part of our ecosystem and has help to have balance in ecosystem.
    Thank you for recalling my memory of studying its life cycle.
    Keep Writing.

    Green Cheers.

    Regards,

    Shreya Aryal
    Posted 02-06-2020 19:05

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Taehyun mentor.
    Posted 02-06-2020 13:59

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Sagar dai.
    Posted 02-06-2020 13:59

  • Taehyun Mentor says :
    Hello Meena Pandey, this is mentor Taehyun!

    Thank you for the detailed introduction about bees! It's hard to tell the difference between life and life on Earth, but it seems that creatures that play various roles are doing it right! Unintentionally helping to fertilize the flowers in the process of finding their own food is the driving force behind the ecosystem. In order to protect bees, you need to know more about them!

    Thank you for the report!

    Green cheers!
    Posted 02-06-2020 04:07

Sagar  Koirala

  • Sagar Koirala says :
    Bee are very important for maintaining ecological balance. Without Bee major pollination will be affected halting environment & food system.
    Posted 02-06-2020 03:35

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Alok.
    Posted 01-06-2020 15:48

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Faith.
    Posted 01-06-2020 15:48

ALOK DHAKAL

  • ALOK DHAKAL says :
    Thanks for sharing

    Posted 01-06-2020 14:37

  • Faith Mwale says :
    Thanks for sharing
    Posted 01-06-2020 13:55

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Sonika.
    Posted 01-06-2020 13:45

Meena Pandey

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Thank you Prakriti.
    Posted 01-06-2020 13:45

Sonika Pariyar

  • Sonika Pariyar says :
    Nice report!

    Thanks for sharing!
    Posted 01-06-2020 13:29

Prakriti  Ghimire

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