bee

Bees are a large group of insects known for their clustered life although not all bees are. All bees
belong to the tribe or family Apidae (order Hymenoptera: insect winged membrane). In the
world there are about 20,000 species of bees and can be found on every continent, except
Antarctica.

As an insect, it has three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings. Bees make its nest on the hill, on
the tree and on the roof of the house. Its nest is built from propolis (glue from the sap of the tree)
and the night produced by the young female bees gland is present in its body. Bees eat nectar of
flowers and pollen.

Way of life
Honey bee

Female insects have an important role in this group of insects. The behavior of bees is largely
determined by the behavior of the female bees. Some female bees from certain species live alone
(solitary) and some are known to have social behavior. The solitary bee builds its own nest and
feeds for its descendants without the help of other bees and usually dies or leaves the nest when
its keturunnya not become adult bees. Sometimes some solitary bee species feed and nurse their
child without providing food reserves for their children, this form of relationship is known as
subsosial. While at a higher stage, bees live in groups and share tasks according to their physical
form.

Colony

In a group (called "colonies") there are three "castes":

     1. queen bee, female sex is the mother of all bees in one colony in one colony only one queen bee.
     2. female bees, known as worker bees the number of worker bees can reach tens of thousands,
30,000 bees and whose superior seeds can reach up to 60,000 bees.
     3. bees, number only hundreds of bees. A bee that collects pollen.
Each caste bee has its own task. The queen bee is only one tail in each colony and guards all the
activities of female bees and bees. The chromosome composition is diploid so it can produce offspring.
His body is larger because since it was in larval form he was fed royal jelly rich in vitamins and nutrients.

division of tasks
The main task of the queen bee is to lay eggs during her life, female sex, the marriage of queen
bee is only once in her life, marriage is done by flying high in the sky in sunny weather and the
stud who can chase it will be able to marry the queen bee, died because the testes were loose and
embedded in the queen's ovary. Active queen bees are capable of laying approximately 2,000
eggs a day. The queen's food is a royal jelly, the queen bee's life expectancy is three years. [Need
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The job of the female worker bee duty is to collect pollen and nectar. Honey is a product of
nectar food processing that is vomited back from the body and stored in a honeycomb for food
reserve, this honey food is also for larvae and pupa. There are also female bees in charge of
cleaning the nest and caring for eggs and bees. The life expectancy of worker bees is three
months or fewer. The main food of this worker bee is honey.

Worker bees are formed from fertilized eggs from sperm stored in the ovaries that amount to
millions of sperm, the same sex with the queen of bees the difference is the worker's bees from
the start of the egg drips into larvae and so on honey normal food while the queen bee ranging
from eggs hatch into larvae until the end of his life of honey (royal jelly).

If the fertility of reproduction of eggs has decreased or the age of the queen is old then the bees
instinct workers to regenerate the formation of new colonies and look for the best eggs, if it is
hatched into larvae fed royal jelly (royal jelly) or some call it queen milk kerena color white as
milk color is usually more than one candidate queen, the largest and most prominent nest longer
than the worker's hive, located at the bottom of the nest.

Workers' bees can lay eggs and their eggs can hatch if the bee colony loses its queen hence
naturally according to the female bee instinct will lay eggs and that is born from the bee eggs
these workers are all male sexes because of the unfertilized eggs, worker bees never married by
bees.

Male bees are in charge of marrying young queen bees if they are to form new colonies and will
die after marriage. Male bees are bees from unfertilized eggs fed on nectar and honey. The
number of male bees is only hundreds.

Often in animated films, if the bees are taken away the honey they produce they are taken, they
will get angry. The anger of a bee can be caused by the disturbance and surprise of the colony, it
could also be due to the aggressive nature of the bee group. For cultivation of honey bee farms
are selected from benign and non-aggressive colonies. Honey from bee farms is usually for
commercial can also for their own needs.
There are also bees that live alone, not in groups. This type of bee is called a solitary bee.

Life cycle

Bees undergo complete metamorphosis ("holometabola") so that there are four stages of life form:

    1. egg;
    2. larvae (caterpillar form)
    3. pupa (cocoon);
    4. imago (adult bees).

Hatching eggs will become larvae. At this stage, worker bees will feed food larvae of pollen, nectar, and
honey. Some of the nectar collected by worker bees is stored as honey. After a few days, the larvae turn
into pupae and so on become bees.

Utilization of bees
Botok wasps, botok that use bee larvae.

Bees in nature serve as essential insects of pollinators. His favorite of nectar and pollen helps plants for
cross-pollination and pollen spread. In the pollination of certain plants, bees are kept in confinement
containing plants to be crossed.

Honey produced bees preferred by many animals, especially bears.

Humans also use honey as food and medicine. Maintenance of bees to be taken honey has been done
man for a long time. The science of bees and its maintenance is known as fire. Beekeeping business is
also called by that name.

Some bees have a sting that is actually fatal to itself if used to sting which resulted in his death due to
sting and gap pockets will be released and stuck to the target. This sting is used by humans in a similar
treatment of acupuncture called bee therapy (apitherapy).

Modern beekeeping can produce bee venom which comes out of the bee sting of the worker without
the effect of the death of the bees, the way by putting a trap in the honeycomb entrance is mounted
enough electric current to surprise the bees, from the surprise the bee is unconsciously bee poison out
of its sting and the results are accommodated for medicinal herbs.

In some places in Indonesia larvae and pupae bee be used as food (for example as botok bee).
Bee sting

Bees often use their tail sting when they feel disturbed (disturbed). The bee stabs its tail sting repeatedly
into the epidermis of its enemy so that it hurts. However, what this bee does actually turns the sting off
of one's skin and pulls out a sting and a pouch (which is attached to the sting), and within minutes the
bee dies.