THE FAMILIES OF BEES

Are you wondering what a family of bees is? Well let's go see what it is.

You must know that a family of bees consists of asingle queen, many workers (sterile females due to the inhibition of a pheromone released by the Queen), drones (males) and hatching (the eggs that settles the queen to reproduce).

A hive is composed of a single family that comes in slang also known as cologne.

If we want to go and see some more detail each family is composed of a queen bee, of thousands from 10,000 to 60,000 worker bees, from some dozens of male API drones.

HISTORICAL NOTES ON BEE FAMILIES

To make you understand the importance of bees ' families for their own survival, you just have to think that beekeeping has been invented for the breeding of thedomestic bee, from the Latin APIs mellifera, or for the Asian areas of thebee Indica (APIs cerana).

This insect for many is considered a troublesome and annoying little man from which he is well on guard otherwise his sting can hurt you and cause infections or very serious skin rash.

In Truth The Bees have existed for about 4 million years. New studies have brought to light fossil finds that have seen these bees possess the same appearance that occur in nature.

So technically we're talking about a dinosaur. In the same way as crocodiles, another and only species of animal that has not undergone mutations from the prehistoric era to the present day.

But returning to our bee families, we wanted to make you understand how important the role of bees with this prehistoric anecdote.

Their longevity is given by their ability to make group and to have a well defined and strict hierarchy of their roles in order to carry on the species.

Forming a family of bees, and then a colony, inside a hive and reproducing naturally in the months that go from April to June.

In this period it is possible the natural swarning and later to this with the formation of new families of bees, even one can try in the realization of a secondary swarling, by an expert beekeeper, who possesses the Features to create a new core within the family of bees and move it to a new colony.

The new colony will have to be far from the original one to prevent the bees from returning back causing the depopulation of the newly created Bee family in a new location.

ADAPTABILITY OF BEE FAMILIES TO ALL ENVIRONMENTS

The most amazing thing about bee families is their frightening adaptability to every environmental condition. It is one of the few living beings to be able to acclimatize to an almost infinite variety of microclimates.

However, it must be admitted that their prosperity is given by well-defined factors that not all environments have.

So recapitulating the families of bees can survive almost everywhere but to reproduce with constancy must have special conditions.

These conditions can also be supported by man. Indeed, it is common practice, as mentioned above, that beekeepers take advantage of particular stalemates of bee families to try to do one or more secondary swarling and then attempt to double or triple the Bees ' reproduction.

But this process must be well cared for and assisted. The harsh winter is a weakness for the bees that use the good season to make provisions for the winter.

If the secondary swarming is carried out without adequate support and control by the beekeeper, a double damage will be generated: not only will we have failed in the attempt to generate a new family of bees but we will have also weakened the swarm which was adequately prepared for the winter on its own account as well as being accustomed to making from 4 million years.

SURVIVAL OF BEE FAMILIES

How can a family of bees survive in the centuries? Very simple. Each bee family has a mechanism that is rogiven and inherent in its own instinct. There are hierarchies and procedures to be observed within the hives to ensure that honeybee families grow and live in total autonomy for a long time.

Let's start from the basis of reproduction in every family of self-respecting bees:

Of course you already know that it is the queen who lay the fertilized eggs in a cell.

You don't have to wait long to wait for the birth of a new bee. Just three days and the eggs hatch.

At this point the newborn larva is breed and nourished with royal jelly that is produced by the worker bees through glands that have in the pharynx.

Their feeding later changes with pollen and honey.

Within 10 days the larva grows sufficiently and the worker bees close the cell from which the larva has come out that can now be considered a young bee ready to be part of their family.

COMPONENTS OF BEE FAMILIES

During the documentaries we speak almost exclusively of thequeen Bee and its predominant role within the family of bees. Yet there are other roles not least that we would like to list below. Are you ready? Well, let's see some components of the famous bee families:

Of course, we can't talk about worker bees in the first line. worker Bees have multiple roles within the family of bees. For ten days it is as it is said in nurseslang. That is, it provides the nutrition of the larvae as mentioned earlier.

He has played this role since the eggs hatch. They secrete royal jelly as we have already explained before and then provide the small larvae of pollen and honey.

The second role that the worker bee has within thefamily of Bees is that of the builder.

In This period, posthumously to the nutrition of the larvae, the worker bee provides for requalification work of the hive by expanding the combs that are present inside.

In addition to this also accomplishes the precious task of transforming the Nectar into honey primary source of nutrition for the families of bees and for creating wax for the construction and maintenance of their hive.

It also accomplishes another very important function. He bangs his wings relentlessly. How come? It's simple. The thousands of worker bees together banging their wings relentlessly contribute to the thermal regulation of their habitat. In a nutshell they act as fans.

You think this is over? No. The worker bee within the family of bees plays another fundamental role that of nectar.

It is not a dirty word, it is the jargon to define the worker bee after the construction phase.

Abandon the hive to a maximum of 2 kilometres of radius to find and return to the hive nectar, honeybee, pollen, water and any other kind of food stock that is suitable for the livelihood of all the bees for the winter.

Scientific studies have shown that the worker bee completes in this way the cycle of one's life: Generally, it dies by exhaustion on its last round of reconnaissance to find the stocks.

BEYOND THE WORKER BEES

Other bees we can talk about are the drones.

It's the male bees. They were born from unfertilized eggs. They present themselves to the larger aspect of the workers but unlike the latter they do not have the stinger.

Drones have no social usefulness within the hive other than to fertilize the young queen Bees. Done that their role is so limiting that they even have to be taken by the worker bees to eat because of their language too short.

Even in some cases they are not fed at all and expelled from the hive or are made to die of exhaustion after fertilization.

CONCLUSIONS ON BEE FAMILIES

We have seen some types of bees, and above all we have understood that the bee families, or also these colonies, are the only way for the bees to sustain themselves. Without their hierarchy and default society and feminist could not survive.

We have seen that the worker bees have a prominent role and that instead the males, the drones, have such a marginal role that they are even left to die of hunger or cold outside the hive.

The nature of the bee families is so strange but at the same time it contemplates a social logic that has been right for more than 4 million years. Over the centuries it has never undergone a mutation and has adapted to any kind of climate.

We beekeepers cultivate these bees for years with passion and dedication. As you can see when you look at nature and you are fortunate enough to be able to work to earn a living, the gratification that you have is double.

We hope to have sent you some of our passion for these wonderful insects.