Who dat bee?
The Most Common Honey Bee
What is Apis mellifera
Cooperative brood care, overlapping generations, and reproductive division of labor
What is eusociality?
Typically have ten moveable frames, and can have many boxes
What is the Langstroth hive?
These honey bees cannot sting, since stingers are modified ovipositors
What are drones?
Genetic material, spread by bees
What is pollen?
These bees shimmer in bee trees in the asian tropics
What is Apis Dorsata (laboriosa/brevilgula)
Most bee species are, besides a small percentage of parasites and social species.
What is solitary?
Solitary bees will forage to make these for their nests.
What are pollen provisions?
They live in the center of the hive near brood
Who is the Queen?
Bees and flowers coevolved and have this type of relationship
What is a mutualism?
These bees are managed in moveable frame hives and are Varroa resistant
What is Apis cerana
Interbreeding natural populations of a species
What is a subspecies?
What hollow stems are to solitary bees like osmia, this is to bumble bees.
What is the ground?
Together, all of the castes act like this
What is a superorganism?
Bees have more of these than wasps which makes them 'stickier'
What are specialized hairs?
Bees that dance horizontally
What are the Dwarf Honey Bees (like florea)
These bees are primitively eusocial, live in underground hives, and start with one queen.
What are bumble bees?
In the late summer/fall a few honey bees might do this and start a new hive
What is swarming?
These bees have longer hypopharyngeal glands and less venom than foraging bees
Who are nurse bees?
Honey bees carry their pollen this way, the pollen basket
What is the corbicula?
Bees that dance dance Vertically
What are the Giant Honey Bees or Common Honey Bee (Apis Dorsata / Apis Mellifera)
This makes honey bees truly eusocial, and bumble bees not
What is caste differentiation and anatomically different females?
The two cavity nesting honey bees
What is Apis meliffera and cerana?
What is temporal polytheism (Behavioral maturation)?
In orchards, these bees are very effective pollinators. A few hundred females can be more productive than honey bee colonies.
Who are Osmia bees? (Orchard bees)