1. World's 8 honey bee species, beyond Apis mellifera | Bees4life
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What honey bee species are out there? Did you ever hear of the world's biggest honey bee, the rock honey bee, and the infamous mad honey? Read more.
2. The Honey Bee Lifecycle - Best Bees
According to CarolinaHoneyBees.com, the average life expectancy for a queen bee is 2-3 years, while worker bees can live from six weeks to six ...
Learn about the four stages during the honey bee lifecycle, and the lifespan of each type of bee within a colony.
3. [PDF] Honey Bee Colonies 08/01/2023
Aug 1, 2023 · Honey bee colonies lost for operations with five or more colonies from January through March 2023, was. 373,880 colonies, or 14 percent.
4. Giant Honey Bee Apis dorsata Fabricius (Insecta: Hymenoptera
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University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension outreach is a partnership between state, federal, and county governments to provide scientific knowledge and expertise to the public. The University of Florida (UF), together with Florida A&M University (FAMU), administers the Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
5. Summer weather conditions influence winter survival of honey bees (Apis ...
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Honey bees are crucial pollinators for agricultural and natural ecosystems, but are experiencing heavy mortality in North America and Europe due to a complex suite of factors. Understanding the relative importance of each factor would enable beekeepers to make more informed decisions and improve assessment of local and regional habitat suitability. We used 3 years of Pennsylvania beekeepers’ survey data to assess the importance of weather, topography, land use, and management factors on overwintering mortality at both apiary and colony levels, and to predict survival given current weather conditions and projected climate changes. Random Forest, a tree-based machine learning approach suited to describing complex nonlinear relationships among factors, was used. A Random Forest model predicted overwintering survival with 73.3% accuracy for colonies and 65.7% for apiaries where Varroa mite populations were managed. Growing degree days and precipitation of the warmest quarter of the preceding year were the most important predictors at both levels. A weather-only model was used to predict colony survival probability, and to create a composite map of survival for 1981–2019. Although 3 years data were likely not enough to adequately capture the range of possible climatic conditions, the model performed well within its constraints.
6. [PDF] Wisconsin Bee Identification Guide
Honey bees are mid-sized bees (~ ½ inch long) and have brownish bodies with bands of pale hairs on the abdomen. Honey bees are unique with their social behavior ...
7. Asian honey bee - Bee Aware
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8. Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) - iNaturalist
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The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bee worldwide. The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera is the Latin for 'honey-bearing', referring to the species' production of honey for the winter. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) Georges-Alexandre Cotnoir, all rights reserved, uploaded by Georges-Alexandre Cotnoir)
9. Evolution and mechanisms of long life and high fertility in queen honey bees
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Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are eusocial insects that exhibit striking caste-specific differences in longevity. Queen honey bees live on average 1–2 years whereas workers live on average 15–38 days in the summer and 150–200 days ...
10. [PDF] Honey Bee Colonies 08/01/2022
Aug 1, 2022 · Renovated colonies are those that were requeened or received new honey bees through a nucleus (nuc) colony or package. Varroa Mites Top Colony ...
11. giant honey bee - Apis dorsata
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The giant honey bee, Apis dorsata Fabricius (Figure 1), has a widespread distribution throughout southern Asia, and is not found in North America. Three subspecies of Apis dorsata are recognized: Apis dorsta dorsata, Apis dorsta binghami and Apis dorsta breviligula. This species has a different nest design from that of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera L., in that these honey bees build a single, large, exposed comb under tree branches or under cliffs, rather than in cavities. Apis dorsata has developed an effective colony defense system to protect their exposed combs. Professional honey hunters harvest honey seasonally from Apis dorsata colonies in spite of the colony’s effective defensiveness and hard-to-reach location high in trees or on cliffs.
12. Honeybee | Characteristics, Habitat, Life Cycle, & Facts - Britannica
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Honeybee, any of a group of insects in the family Apidae that in a broad sense includes all bees that make honey. All honeybees are social insects and live together in nests or hives. There are two honeybee sexes, male and female, and two female castes.
13. Number of U.S. honey bee colonies rises as honey yield per colony drops
Sep 7, 2021 · In 2008, U.S. honey bee colonies totaled 2.3 million, the lowest on record. Reflecting the trend of retraction for much of the decade, the ...
Over the last 20 years, the U.S. beekeeping industry has experienced significant changes that have included fluctuating honey bee colony numbers coupled with per colony honey yield declines. Through 2008, bee disease and elevated overwinter losses contributed to declining colony counts. In 2008, U.S. honey bee colonies totaled 2.3 million, the lowest on record. Reflecting the trend of retraction for much of the decade, the average number of U.S. colonies through the first 10 years of the 2000s totaled 2.49 million. As beekeepers adapted to bee disease challenges and overwinter losses lessened, the number of colonies began to steadily recover. The average number of colonies in the most recent decade was 2.7 million – nearly 8 percent more than in the prior 10 years. Even though colony numbers have largely recovered in the last decade, per colony honey yields have declined at a rate of about half a pound per year. From 2000 to 2009, the average U.S. colony produced 69 pounds of honey. In the most recent decade, that average slipped to 57 pounds. In addition to producing honey, honey bees provide pollination services, the demand for which has surged over the last 20 years. USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) recently reported that beekeepers now receive about as much of their income from providing pollination services as from producing honey. This chart is drawn from the ERS See details ›
