Beekeeping Research Paper

Beekeeping Would the average person know that a honey bees' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, making a distinctive buzzing noise (Delaplane). There are many things that people don’t know about bees. Such as when beekeeping started, the difference between hobbyist and commercial beekeepers. There are also different types of bees, different types of honey and different uses of honey. Most people are perfectly fine never encountering a bee or knowing anything about them. A human’s first reaction to a bee is that the bee is there to harm them by stinging them. Most people that have experienced an encounter with a bee, wasp or hornet would say it wasn’t a positive encounter. Most people probably swing, swat and try to hit the insect away. …show more content…
They consist of over 98% of the colony's population. Although the worker bees they never mate, the workers possess organs necessary for carrying out the many duties essential to the colony. They have a longer tongue than the queen and drones to help them suck pollen from flowers. Their stomachs are something else. A worker be can eat nectar and have it in her and then turns in into honey. An average hard working bee will make up to 1/12 of a teaspoon in its entire life time. Her legs also have pollen baskets on their legs to transport the pollen to the hive. The kind of work performed by the worker depends largely upon her age. The first three weeks of her adult life, during which she is referred to as a house bee, she is devoted to stay within the hive so that her wings can dry out and grow strong so that she can then leave the hive to find pollen (stone). The male bee is called a drone, drones only have one purpose and is the only male bee in the colony. The drone population is very slim, drones may only number in the hundreds even when the colony is doing its best. Drones are the only males in the colony and are not self-reliant and must be feed and cared for by the worker bees. He is allowed to remain in the hive only because he is needed to mate with a new virgin queen when the old queen dies. When the queen is about one week old that is when she fly’s up 200 to 300 feet in the air to mate. …show more content…
Honey is so healthy for you and can also be used in so much more than just eating. There are so many different types of honey in the world, there are more than 300 unique types of honey available in the United States. The thickness, texture, color, weight and taste is all determined on the flower. Each flower has a different shape, smell and type of pollen which makes each the honey so unique. Honey is produced in every state, but some states don’t have the same flowers as others and certain types of honey are produced only in a few regions. Honey can be bought in different ways then just from a bottle. Comb honey is direct from the hive with honey filled beeswax stored naturally by the bees. Liquid honey that is extracted is the generic honey that you can find at pretty much any store. It is prepared by cutting off the wax capping’s and spinning the comb in a honey extractor. Creamed honey is also known as granulated honey, it can be made by blending the honey with some liquid and also having honey get to cold can cause it to granulate, which gives it a crunchy affect. Raw honey comb is just a pieces of the honey comb that is cut out and smothered with normal liquid honey (Brening). The most common honey made is clover, wildflower, and alfalfa, these three types of honey are also known for their great taste. In October of 2015 the average cost of honey for