The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting

Description

The cross pollination of the flowers of fruit trees by the honey bee was studied and recorded by Dr. Casteel from 1911 to 1912. The behavior and actions of the honey bee are believed to be of much use and appealing to the bee keeper.

A honey bee or honeybee is a bee member of the genus Apis. They are primarily eminent for making and storing honey and the building of recurrent, colonial nests from wax. As of today, there are only seven species of honey bee are known to have been existing, with 44 subspecies, although generally six to eleven species are originally known. The most popular honey bee is the Western honey bee which has been tamed for the production of honey and the pollination of crop. Honey bees signify only a little portion of a total of 20,000 identified species of bees. A few of the interconnected bees make and store honey, involving the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are real honey bees. Melittology is the study of bees involving honey bees.

Species of Apis are typical floral visitors, and pollinate a wide array of plants or generally, all plants. A mellifera among the other bees has been expended largely for commercial pollination of crops and other plants. The quantity of these pollination benefits is usually appraised in billions of dollars. Bees store 66 pounds of pollen each year of each hive.

Honey bees get all their dietary requisites from a various combination of pollen and nectar. Pollen is the sole natural protein source for honey bees. Fully developed honey bees feed on 3.4-4.3 mg of pollen daily to meet a dry matter requisite of 66-74% protein. The raising of one larva needs 125-187.5 mg pollen or 25-37.5 mg protein for full growth.
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