Savethebees

Colony Collapse Disorder

The Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), the Mason Bee (Osmia lignaria), and the Bumble Bee (Bombus Hortorum) are being affected by a deadly virus known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or C.C.D. This virus is affecting and killing bees over 27 states in the United States, and many other places all over the world.

Pesticides

There are many pesticides that effect bees. Most are insecticides, people want to kill grubs, mole crickets, and other bugs, but they forget that the bee is an insect. Here are some pesticides that kill bees: Baygon, Furadan, Lannate, Lannate LS, Mesurol, Nudrin, and Sevin. For more information on pesticides, please visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees.

A DESCRIPTION OF HONEY BEES

THE WORKER

The honey bees are born as an egg from the queen in a wax brood cell. Three days after the egg hatches into a larva. Nurse bees feed it royal jelly to keep it alive for the first day, then for six days they feed the larva honey and pollen. Then the larva becomes a pupa. The first pupa is inactive and can’t do anything. During the sixteen days as a pupa trapped in a sealed cell, it grows into a worker bee, wich is always a female. On the twentieth day, the worker comes out of the cell. Workers do everything exept mate and lay eggs. They callect the pollen, make the honey, collect water, heat the hive and keep the hive cool.

The Drone

The drone is the male bee. They became a full adult in twenty-one days, and are larger than the female. Thye have very large eyes and have no stinger. They have no work to do, all they do is mate with the queen as they are being fed by the workers. They either die while mating or they are expelled from the hive by winter.

THE QUEEN

Before the old queen dies, she lays an egg in a large queen cell. The nurse bee feeds the egg only royal jelly. In sixteen days the new queen emerges, killing all queens in other collonies around her. In the first seven minutes, she mates with seven or more drone bees to lay more eggs.

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