#honeybees — Public Fediverse posts

The bees found them! Also, our Barbados cherry tree is blossoming and I can see some cherries starting to form :)

#garden #gardening #farm #farming #solarpunk #fediverse #naturephotography #photography #bees #honeybees #honey

‘He makes all things new’: 400 queen bees saved as Vidalia business rebuilds after fire https://www.byteseu.com/2355619/ #Bees #business #Community #Fire #HoneyBees #StructureFire #ToombsCounty #Vidalia #VidaliaApiculturalServicesAndBeeCompany #wtoc #WTOCNews

Miten viikko ja päivä ja maanantaiaamu alkoi: syötin pihassa mehiläiselle sokerivettä sormesta.
Lisää kuvia Pixelfedin puolella: @sanaemo_titia .
/ A different start to the week and the day and the morning: feeding a honeybee sugar water from my finger.
More photos on my Pixelfed account: @sanaemo_titia .

#mehiläiset #honeybees

Mapping Sleeping Bees within Their Nest: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Worker Honey Bee Sleep
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4100802/ <-- shared paper
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H/T Dimitrios A. Karras
“Bees are not only very important for all ecosystems... They are very cute too....
However, bee societies are very complex and different sleep patterns exist for the other kinds of bees in the hierarchy..
In general, bees actually sleep, and many species spend around 5-8 hours resting each day, usually at night when they're not foraging.
Some solitary bees have been photographed sleeping inside flowers, where they cling onto the petals or stamens with their tiny legs and sometimes even their jaws.
One of the cutest parts is that tired bees can look almost like they've fallen asleep at work, curled up inside a flower with pollen still covering their bodies…”
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“Patterns of behavior within societies have long been visualized and interpreted using maps. Mapping the occurrence of sleep across individuals within a society could offer clues as to functional aspects of sleep. In spite of this, a detailed spatial analysis of sleep has never been conducted on an invertebrate society. [The authors] introduce the concept of mapping sleep across an insect society, and provide an empirical example, mapping sleep patterns within colonies of European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Honey bees face variables such as temperature and position of resources within their colony's nest that may impact their sleep. [They] mapped sleep behavior and temperature of worker bees and produced maps of their nest's comb contents as the colony grew and contents changed. By following marked bees, [they] discovered that individuals slept in many locations, but bees of different worker castes slept in different areas of the nest relative to position of the brood and surrounding temperature. Older worker bees generally slept outside cells, closer to the perimeter of the nest, in colder regions, and away from uncapped brood. Younger worker bees generally slept inside cells and closer to the center of the nest, and spent more time asleep than awake when surrounded by uncapped brood. The average surface temperature of sleeping foragers was lower than the surface temperature of their surroundings, offering a possible indicator of sleep for this caste. [They] propose mechanisms that could generate caste-dependent sleep patterns and discuss functional significance of these patterns…”
#bee #insect #hive #sleeping #sleep #patterns #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #spatial #mapping #sleeppatterns #behaviour #society #community #honeybees #ecosystem #colony #infrared #remotesensing #temperature #instrumentation

Estamos moi contentos pola difusion que está a ter o noso artigo sobre a modernización das colmeas. En poucos días superou as 16.000 lecturas en @theconversationes @raposavermella #apicultura #divulgacion #honeybees #beekeeping #hives #abellas #apicultura https://theconversation.com/asi-se-han-modernizado-las-colmenas-empleadas-en-apicultura-durante-los-ultimos-siglos-249295

Estes días estivemos aprendendo e compartindo coñecemento sobre patrimonio apícola cereiro e a relación entre montes veciñais e apicultura. Concretamente no XII Congreso Nacional de Apicultura e na Feira Apícola Meliza que tiveron lugar en Zamora #historiaeconomica #blanqueodecera #ceradeabella #lagaresdecera #historiarural #montesveciñais #alvarizas #patrimonioindustrial #apicultura #abellas #beekeeping #honeybees

#Australian #honeybees are one of the most majestic and industrious insects on the planet.

I can watch them for hours. And often do in my travels around #melbourne.

They’ve been active the last couple of months pollinating and feeding, naturally, given it has been the height of summer here in #Australia.

Below are some of my shots of busy #bees doing their thing throughout my travels around this great city. Also some interesting facts about these gorgeous creatures!

Only female honey bees can sting, the males (drones) are not able to sting.

A typical active #honeybee colony may have around 50,000 workers
Honey bees communicate through pheromones.

Honey bees fly up to 25 klm/h (15 mph) and beat their wings 200 times per second or 12,000 beats per minute!

Drones die after mating.

Foraging honey #bees fly about 88,000 klm’s (55,000 miles) collectively, to produce a half a kilogram (approx 1 pound) of honey, visiting around 2 million flowers.

Each honey #bee makes about 1 twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its entire life time 😳

A worker honeybees lifetime? Between 30 - 60 days.

#flora #botanics #gardening #garden #nature #Australia #AustralianBush #Narrm #melbourne #mothernature #nature #bees #honey #honebees #honeybee #bee 
#makesmehappy

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Saw this #magnolia and bees were in abundance!

I watched this one #bee for 5 minutes as it stayed with this flower

Most of the time it seemed to be picking up and placing down the flower’s filaments and anthers (the pieces laying on the bottom petal). Very active, flying

Other #honeybees were flitting in, around and out again per usual

Super #intriguing

Some quick facts about honeybees;

Only female honey bees can sting, the males (drones) are not able to sting

A typical active honeybee colony may have around 50,000 workers

Honey bees communicate through pheromones

Honey bees fly up to 25 klm/h (15 mph) and beat their wings 200 times per second or 12,000 beats per minute!

Drones die after mating

Foraging honey bees fly about 88,000 klm’s (55,000 miles) collectively, to produce a half a kilogram (approx 1 pound) of honey, visiting around 2 million flowers

Each honey bee makes about 1 twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its entire life time 😳

A worker honeybees lifetime? Between 30 - 60 days

#flora #botanics #gardening #garden #nature #Australia #AustralianBush #mothernature #nature #bees #honey #honebees #honeybee

#makesmehappy

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