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A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive. Nest is used to discuss colonies that house themselves in natural or artificial cavities ...
Bumblebee communication. Bumblebees ( Bombus spp.), like the honeybee ( Apis spp.) collect nectar and pollen from flowers and store them for food. Many individuals must be recruited to forage for food to provide for the hive. Some bee species have highly developed ways of communicating with each other about the location and quality of food ...
The northern colletes ( Colletes floralis) is a species of bee within the genus Colletes. Northern colletes are solitary bees, though females may nest in what are termed aggregations – sites where the bees nest close together, but do not form colonies as social bees do. [1] They nest underground in soft (often sandy) soil, digging burrows up ...
March 2, 2020 at 2:33 PM. Bees were seen creating beautiful patterns while "wiggle dancing" on their nest in Kon Tim, Vietnam. The dances are used by Field bees, in particular, to relay different ...
Colletes phaceliae. Colletes compactus. Colletes speculiferus. Colletes thysanellae. The genus Colletes ( plasterer bees or cellophane bees) is a large group of ground-nesting bees of the family Colletidae. They occur primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. They tend to be solitary, but sometimes nest close together in aggregations.
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Unlike the nests of honeybees or paper wasps, the nests of B. impatiens do not have a predictable pattern. The bees lay egg clumps all over inside the nest instead of having one brood area around which the workers' distribution center is arranged. [11] Within the nest there is a special division of labor and social organization.
The guiding bird flies toward an occupied nest (greater honeyguides know the sites of many bees' nests in their territories) and then stops nearby the nest. Honey-hunters then do a final search for the bee colony, and if deemed suitable, harvest honey from the bee colony through the use of fire and smoke to subdue the bees, and axes and ...