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DIFFERENT SPECIES OF HONEY

BEES AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR

PRESENTED BY : SHAIFALI PANT (39632) MITALI BARGALI(39630) ADITI DUMOGA (39643)

INTRODUCTION

A social insect colony is made up of several different classes of individuals

1. Queens: they lay the eggs
2. Workers: they do all the work
3. Drones: they mate with the queen

Members of the colony

Major activities of honey

bees

 Foraging is searching for wild food resources. For bees, their forage or food supply consists of nectar and pollen from blooming plants within flight range.

FORAGING

Foraging is limited to food sources within 3

km

Scout bees search first few 100 meters.

Bees visit up to about 40 flowers per

minute depending on floral type, nectar

availability and weather conditions.

In general, 5-15 trips.

Water collector may make as many as 100

trips per day.

When all of the bees—including the queen

—leave the hive in search of a new home

we say they are “absconding.”

 The primary reasons for absconding are:

 overheating,

lack of food,

and frequent disturbance.

ABSCONDING

DANCING

• (^) Round dance When food source is < 50 m from hive

• (^) Waggle dance When food source is > 50 meters away Waggle run- Abdomen wagging and wing fluttering in an angle.

Bees have the ability to air condition the hives. They do this by  (^) distributing water droplets throughout the hive.  (^) fanning their wings to generate air movement

AIR CONDITIONING

Different species of honey

bees