BEE

Bees are a large group of insects known for his berkelompokm despite the fact that not all bees are so. All the bees into the tribe or family of Apidae (order Hymenoptera: membrane-winged insects). In the world there are approximately 20,000 species of bees and can be found on every continent, except Antarctica.

As an insect, he has three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings. Bees make their nests on the hill, on trees and on rooftops. Nest is built from a night-kelelenjar produced by glands of young female bees found in his body. Bees eat nectar and pollen.

Way of life

Female insects have an important role in this insect group. The behavior of bees is determined by the behavior of female bees. Some females of certain species of bees live alone (solitary) and others known to have a social behavior. Solitary bees build their own nest and foraging for keturunnya without the help of other bees and usually die or leave the nest at the time of keturunnya not yet become an adult bee. Sometimes a few species of solitary bees feed and care for their children without giving up food for their children, form such a relationship is known as subsosial. While at a higher stage, bees live in groups and share duties in accordance with their respective physical form.

Colony

In one group (called "colonies") there are three "castes", namely:

• Queen bee, the female sex is the mother of all bees in a colony within a colony of bees is only one queen.

• Female bees, worker bees are known as the number of worker bees can reach tens of thousands, 30,000 bees, and the seeds can reach up to 60,000 bees.

• Drones, there were only hundreds of bees.

Each caste has bee each task. Only one queen bee in each colony tail and escorted all the activities of female bees and drones. Diploid chromosome composition so that it can produce offspring. Larger body since he was in the form of larvae fed royal jelly is rich in vitamins and nutrients.

Division of Duties

The main task of the queen bee is laying eggs during hidupya, female gender, marital queen bee is only once in a lifetime, marriage performed by high-flying diangkasa in sunny weather and males who can catch him will be able to marry the queen bee, males are happy it was not long will die because testinya off and embedded in the queen bee ovary. Queen bee can lay eggs on about 2,000 eggs a day. Food is the essence of honey queen (royal jelly), queen bees life expectancy is three years.

Task-sex worker female bees collect duties pollen and nectar. Honey is a product of food processing nectar spewed back of the body and stored in a hive of bees for food reserves, honey is also food for the larvae and pupae. There is also a female in charge of cleaning the bees nest and eggs and caring for children bees. Worker bees life expectancy is three months or fewer main food is the honey bee worker.

Worker bees are formed from a fertilized egg from sperm stored in the ovaries that amounted to millions of sperm, the sex difference equal to the queen bee of this worker bee from the egg began to trickle into larvae and their food setererusnya ordinary honey bees while the queen from the eggs hatch into larvae until end of life honey cider food (royal jelly).

If the egg has been reduced fertility or reproductive age old queen of the worker bees instinctively hold regeneration establishment of new colonies and find the best eggs, if already hatched into larvae fed honey juice (royal jelly), or some call it milk ingredients color queens color white as milk amount is usually more than one candidate queen, nest the largest and most prominent is longer than worker bees nest, located at the bottom of the nest.

Worker bees can lay eggs and hatch their eggs can be lost if the queen bee colonies naturally fit the female will lay eggs instinct bees are born from eggs and worker bees are all male sex because of the eggs are not fertilized, the worker bees have never married by male bees.

Drones in charge of marrying the young queen bee who was a virgin if it will establish a new colony and will die after mating. Drones are not fertilized eggs of bees from the nectar and honey fed regular (not "royal jelly"). The number of male bees in number only hundreds.

Often in animated films, if the bees made honey they produce they are taken, they would be angry. Anger can be caused by bees disturbed and shocked the colony, could also be due to the aggressive nature of the bee. For aquaculture farms were selected from colonies of honey bees are benign and not aggressive. Honey from the bee farm is usually to be too commercial for its own needs.

There are also bees that live alone, not in groups. Such types of bees called solitary bees.

Life Cycle

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

• Eggs;

• Larvae (a caterpillar)

• Pupa (cocoon);

• Imago (adult bees).

Eggs that will hatch into larvae. At this stage, the larvae of worker bees will provide food such as pollen, nectar, and honey. Some nectar collected by worker bees stored as honey. After several days, the larvae change into pupae and so become a child of bees.

Utilization of Bees

Bees in nature an important function as the main insect pollinators. Preference for nectar and pollen to help the plant to the occurrence of cross-pollination and pollen dissemination. In artificial pollination of certain plants, bees kept in cages containing plants to be crossed.

Honey produced by bees preferred by many animals, especially bears.

Humans also use honey as food and medicine. Maintenance of the honey bee to be taken has been done since the old man. The science of bees and its maintenance is known as apiari. Beekeeping business is also called by that name.

Some kinds of bees have a sting that actually are fatal for him if it is used for the sting that resulted in death due to stings and glans bags will come off and stuck on the target. This sting humans utilized in a similar acupuncture treatment called bee therapy (apitherapy).

Modern beekeeping bees can produce toxins that come out of the bee sting caused by the death of workers without bees, how to set a trap door into a beehive that is mounted electric current sufficient to make a surprise bee, the bee was shocked unconsciously sting out of bee venom and results are stored for herbs.

In some places in Indonesia bee larvae and pupae used as food (eg as botok bees).

Bee Stings

Bee stings often uses its tail when disturbed (disturbed). Bees sting tail thrust repeatedly into the epidermis enemy so feel sick. However, what turned out to make this a bee sting off (left) in the skin of a person and draw sting and sting sac (which is attached to the sting), and within a few minutes later the bees were dead.