ENVS 2210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-8: Varroa Destructor, Threonine, Leucine
16 Mar 2017
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As the population expands, there is a strong impulse for the population to naturally divide by swarming. Strong colonies will store a surplus of food reserved during a period referred to as nectar flow. Family colletidae (plaster bees) most primitive bees, appear wasp like, they are generally parasitic with few pollen carrying hairs, pollen is mixed with nectar and carried in the stomach: 2. Family halictidae (sweat bees) 60-70% of bees in eastern us, different family members exhibit various degrees of social development, many species have narrow flower foraging preferences (examples of bees 24: 3. Family melittidae and dasypodaidae 2 small families, little is known about these soil nesting bees, with hairy hind legs and limited floral source foraging preference: 5. Respiration insects have 3 thoracic and 7 abdominal air openings, the spiracles, and internally many air sacs that lead to branching tubes or tracheae the tracheae run along each cell to carry oxygen to and remove carbon dioxide.
