The Life Cycle of Honeybees

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The Life Cycle of Honeybees
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• by Student Name

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The Honeybee (Apis mellifera)

• Recognizable by their pattern4
• Stinger used as defense
• Only found in females
• Can only be used once
• Barbed 5
• Unique body structure6
• Segmented
• Exoskeleton
• Compound eyes 7
• Facets- hundreds of small simple eyes

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Social Order

• The Castes
• Queen
• 2-8 years
• Workers
• 6 weeks
• Drones
• 8 weeks9

• Up to 20,000 bees living in the hive in the
  summer months.
• Dont hibernate in the winter

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Drone Bees

• Males
• Larger eyes 11
• 0-200 in the hive at any time
• Sole purpose is to mate with queen12
• Die after mating
• Kicked out around fall

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Development of a Bee

• Egg
• 3 days
• Larvae
• 4 days
• Pupa
• Few days
• Adult
• 16-24 days

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Worker Bees

• Female (sterile)
• Perform all necessary tasks
• Different jobs depending on age
• 2 days
• 3-10 days
• 15-20 days
• 21-35 days

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The Queen Bee

• Only fertile female
• Royal jelly16
• Lays eggs17
• Pheromones18
• Virgin Queen 19
• Nuptial Flight

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How is Honey Made?

• Collecting nectar
• Enriching the nectar
• The final product
• Honey production

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Credits

• 1"Honeybee." 19 May 2007 lthttp//brownback.senate.
  gov/
• Honeybee.htmgt.
• 2Rechtfertig, Mary A. "Buddy Activities." 19 May
  2007 lthttp//dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us/dixieschool/c
  lassrooms/Rechtfertig/honeybee.jpggt.
• 3"Honey Bee Facts Page." Koday's Kids Amazing
  Insects. 1 Jan. 1998. 20 May 2007
  lthttp//www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4TH/KKHP/
  1insects/honbeefax.htmlgt.
• 4Huang, Zachary. "Honey Bee Anatomy." BeeBiology.
  15 Feb. 2005. Michigan StateUniversity. 20 May
  2007 lthttp//www.cyberbee.net/gt.

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Credits (continued)

• 5Dave, Langston. "Information Sheet 2." The Honey
  Bee Body. University of Arizona. 20 May 2007
  lthttp//cals.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf2.htm
  lgt.
• 6www.cyberbee.net
• 7Mason, Jim. "Honeybee." Great Plains Nature
  Center. 20 May 2007 lthttp//www.gpnc.org/honeybee.
  htmgt.
• 8Koning, Ross E. "Honeybee Biology". Plant
  Physiology Website. 1994. 20 May 2007
  http//plantphys.info/
• plants_human/bees/bees.html 20 May 2007.
• 9http//www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm
• 10http//plantphys.info/plants_human/bees/bees.htm
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Credits (continued)

• 11Kendall, David. "Kendall Bioresearch Services."
  6 June 2005. 20 May 2007 lthttp//www.kendall-biore
  search.co.uk/HYMEN5.GIFgt.
• 12http//www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm
• 13http//plantphys.info/plants_human/bees/bees.htm
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• 14www.cyberbee.net
• 15"Honey." Answers.Com. 20 May 2007
  lthttp//www.answers.com/topic/honeygt.
• 16Gustofsson, P O. 20 May 2007 lthttp//www.vegetus
  .org/honey/queen2.jpggt.

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Credits (continued)

• 17http//plantphys.info/plants_human/bees/bees.htm
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• 18http//www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4TH/KKHP
  /1insects/honbeefax.html
• 19"Queen Bee." Wikipedia. 17 May 2007. 20 May
  2007 lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_beeDevel
  opmentgt.
• 20www.answers.com/topic/honey

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