ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eugenius Warming
9 Nov 2016
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The annual cycle of a honey bee colony (outline) The colony and the nest: social unit composed of thousands of worker bees, drones and a queen living together in a hive or other dwelling. Natural hives: hollow spaces that provide them shelter from the weather and from predators. The nest: bees build combs to rear brood and to store food; combs built in parallel, hanging vertically from the top part of the nest. Comb: array of hexagonal cells with horizontal orientation and slightly angled upwards. Brood reared in centre of combs (35 c). Food reserves stored at the periphery of the brood. Average colony consumption, between 20 and 30 kg of pollen, and between 60 and 80 kg of honey per year. Worker cells, drone cells, and queen cells. Seasonal colony-cycle: the population and activities of the members of a honey bee colony vary with the seasons and with the availability of food resources.
