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| Profile - freerangerdaz [Show Forum Posts] |
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Relationship: In Relationship
Sexuality: Straight
Recent Quizzes:
Knowing myself
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County:
Region:
Shrewsbury
Country:
United Kingdom
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| About me |
Profession:
Free range farmer |
Favourite Things:
Bee's & Bee's me
Honey bee facts
Day 1. Queen measures size of cell to determine whether it is a drone or a worker cell. Egg vertical, parallel to cell walls.
Day 2. Egg at 45 deg.
Day 3. Egg horizontal, laying on the bottom of the cell - hatches.
Day 4 - 8. Larva fed by workers, grows, moults every 24 hours, eventually fills cell - cell sealed.
Day 8 - 21. Excretes. Stretches head outwards and spins a cocoon - pupa develops after 5th moult (3 days after sealing) - colour slowly changes from white. 6th moult occurs just before emergence.
Functions of the worker:
Day 1 - 3.. Cell cleaning & brood incubation.
Day 4 - 6. Feeding older larvae (honey + pollen).
Day 7 - 12. Feeding young larvae (brood food).
Day 13 - 18. Processing nectar into honey (water evaporation), wax making, pollen packing.
Day 19 - 21. Guarding and orientation flights.
Day 21 - 6th week. Foraging for nectar, pollen, water & propolis.
Bees often do nothing! Duties depend on the maturity of the brood glands, wax glands (day 12) & sting gland (day 18 ) - bees can revert to earlier duties if required. Other duties included ventilation, humidity and temperature control.
Functions of the drone:
<c. day 12. Confined to hive except for cleansing & orientation flights on fine days.
Day 12 - 14. Sexually mature. Drones meet (>20 deg./afternoon) in congregation areas - drone assemblies. Drones are attracted to virgin queens by pheromones.
Autumn. Massacre of the drones. The drone’s sole function is to mate with virgin queens (from which act he dies). Drones still alive in the autumn are no longer required and are killed.
Functions of the queen:
Day 1. On hatching, may kill sealed queens (may swarm).
Day 3 - 5. Orientation flights.
Week 1 - 3. Mating flights.
Year 3 - 5. Starts laying 2 - 4 days after mating. Produces pheromones (chemical messengers) that inform the colony of her presence & inhibits queen raising. If the queen dies (or is removed) or is old, the workers can produce queens from fertilised eggs. Queens are produced when the colony swarms.
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About me:
I keep bee's for a hobby , i have 6 hive's a.t.m which is around 300,000 bee's .
Its a very fascinating hobby
I has passed my apiculture exam of bee keepers.
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2008-08-01 19:08:24
Signup Date:
2007-03-17 21:17:19
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