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  Beekeeping - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A beekeeper is one who keeps bees in order to collect honey and beeswax or for the purpose of pollinating crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.
Bees are calmed with a puff of smoke, that triggers a feeding response in anticipation of possible hive abandonment due to fire, before the beekeeper open the hive.
The bees are usually kept in a Langstroth hive, that is wooden boxes filled with frames that each hold a sheet of wax: the bees produce wax and build honeycomb using the wax sheets as a starting point, after which they may raise brood or deposit honey and pollen in the cells of the comb.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /beekeeping.htm   (873 words)

  
 BIBBA Bee Improvement and Bee breeding Association - honey bee conservation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Caucasian bee is noteworthy for the length of its proboscis, being the longest of all the mellifera races.
Caucasian bees are said to be at their best in protracted slight nectar flows; they seem to be unable to cope with short heavy flows, most of which is stored in the brood chamber rather than the supers.
The native bee of the British Isles is renowned for the whiteness of the sealed honeycomb.
www.angus.co.uk /bibba/bibborig.html   (7103 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions About Honeybees
The bees in the old hive make a new queen and she flies off with most of the younger bees of the colony to find a new place to live.
The bees must be analyzed in a lab through a process of dissection and measuring various body parts that are then compared against a huge database of measurements to determine if the bees fall into the range of bees that have proven in the past to be Africanized.
Bee and wasp venoms consist of complex mixtures of biogenic amines, protein(polypeptide) toxins and enzymes.
honeybee.tamu.edu /faq   (2542 words)

  
 79.06.04: Bees: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Bees are blessed with a very reliable twentyfourhour clock that is seldom affected by anything and does not seem to depend on events in the outside world to keep it working.
Bees also see the entire pattern of the sky at once, for their compound eyes are made up of thousands of tiny facets.
Bees are characterized by their dense coating of plumose and the enlargement of the first or basal joint of the hind tars).
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/6/79.06.04.x.html   (3817 words)

  
 The Honeybee Family
The bees there found a rich supply of food, and so thrived that twenty swarms were the produce of this one hive in the first year.
Later identified as acarine, a parasitic mite that invades the bee's breathing tubes, the disease decimated colonies of the native bees.
The Caucasian bee has the longest tongue of all the sub-species and is able to reach the nectaries of red clover - hence its popular name of "the red clover bee".
www.bbka.org.uk /articles/honeybee_family.php   (3372 words)

  
 Honey Comb Crunch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Bees also gather pollen from flowers, carrying it back to the hive on combs and baskets that are part of their hind legs.
The bees usually build their honeycomb in a sheltered site like a hollow tree or cave, or, in the case of domesticated bees, a container devised for that purpose by a bee keeper.
The hour I take my bees out of the orchard, the grower may begin spraying his trees to protect them from insect damage." Warm weather accelerates the blooming period of plants, and the warmer it is, the less time it may take the bees to do their work.
www.conservation.state.mo.us /conmag/1997/12/40.htm   (2347 words)

  
 Ibiza Ecology,Ecology in Ibiza
This bee is very active, strong and sober, living as native, wild in its own environment as they do in these three last countries, they are also passive and very prolific; the swarms are easily formed and they can be rather big.
Also this bee prefers to live in big swarms, the bigger the better, so if the swarm that she belongs to is too small for her, she will abandon her own hive and queen and will join a bigger swarm.
Beekeepers select the races according to several different qualities and aptitudes of the bees, such as the fertility of the queen, the age that the bees can reach, the distance they can fly, the length of their tongue, the amount of pollen and honey they can carry, resistance to work and illnesses, their character, etc.
www.liveibiza.com /ibiza_ecology/bee_ibiza_2.htm   (1552 words)

  
 Beekeeping History - Page 2
Bees were tempted into the box with a sweet syrup or honey, and the hunter followed the bees as they flew back to their colony.
Hens, he observed, retire to rest early; but bees seek repose earlier still; no sooner are they sunk into slumber, than the moths steals into their abode and devours the produce of their toil.
The bees first betake themselves to their dwelling and settle themselves for the night.
outdoorplace.org /beekeeping/history2.htm   (732 words)

  
 AgNews -- Africanized Honey Bees: Frequently Asked Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Africanized Honey Bee is a hybrid of a strain of honey bees from Africa, Apis mellifera scutellata, and basicaly any other honey bee that it can mate with and produce viable off-spring.
In the United States this could be Apis mellifera ligustica (Italian honey bee), Apis mellifera carnica (Carniolian honey bee), Apis mellifera caucasica (Caucasian honey bee), and Apis mellifera mellifera (Dark honey bee).
The Africanized honey bee is a hybrid of a strain of honey bees from Africa, Aphis mellifera scutellata, and basically any other honey bee that it can mate with and produce viable off-spring.
agnews.tamu.edu /bees/faq.htm   (2299 words)

  
 Information Sheet 1, Bee Basics
Bees may not have a good reputation because of their ability to sting, but many are important and beneficial.
What we call honey bees are represented by eight to 10 species in the genus Apis, a name from which comes the word for beekeeping (apiculture) and the word for a bee yard (apiary).
In some cases, the honey bees travelled in advance of the European settlers and came in contact with Native American tribes, who dubbed them "white man's flies." By the time the frontier had been settled, late in the 19th century, honey bees were regarded as a natural part of the insect world in North America.
ag.arizona.edu /pubs/insects/ahb/inf1.html   (768 words)

  
 Buckeye Bee Basic Beekeeping Course: Beekeeping Class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Bees have a tendency to drift into a hive that is not their own and this is true of hives in a straight row.
Generally once she inserts her sting, the bee pulls herself away, leaving the venom pouch and sting in the invader; the worker soon dies because of the abdominal rupture.
Bees become weak, crawl at the hive entrance and sometimes uncouple their wings so that all four wings are visible.
www.buckeyebee.com /basic.html   (9434 words)

  
 Apiservices - Beekeeping - Apiculture - Finland/Finlande
Around 50% of the bees are still located in the southern part of Finland.
Other races are very rare but the carniolan bees have become more popular in the last few years.
Honey bee research is also conducted at the University of Helsinki, in the Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology.
www.beekeeping.com /countries/finland.htm   (807 words)

  
 Bee Strains and races
After all, there are more experienced bee keepers in the world whose experience may not match the article written in the May 1997 issue of Bee Culture magazine (page 32) or the Washington State Bee Keepers Exam booklet from which I gleaned this information.
The bees of a Midnite queen are dark in color and extremely gentle.
But if you had hives in a bee yard where other keepers had their hives, then the spreading of diseases and parasites might be a real concern.
home1.gte.net /richwebb/beestrain.htm   (1648 words)

  
 Russian Beekeeping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
We first flew from London to Moscow, then drove to an Institute at Ribnoe near Ryazan, and then flew from Moscow to Sochi to visit an experimental bee breeding farm which was located in the foothills of the main Caucasian range on its western side.
A total of 150,000 Queen bees are produced by the State each year with approximately 130,000 coming from the Caucasian Region.
The Mission emphasis was on genetic improvement of honey bees and the itinerary was organised accordingly.
www.bkeeping.net /Russia/Russia.php   (640 words)

  
 Beekeeping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A beekeeper is one who keeps bees in order to collect honey and beeswax or for the purpose of pollinating crops.
Later italian bees, carniolan bees and caucasian bees were added.
Hobbyists — have a different day job but find beekeeping fun as just a hobby.
www.free-download-soft.com /info/vicodin-discount-vicodin.html   (796 words)

  
 New Techniques Laboratory Ltd. - Products: Bee venom powder - Services:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
We are the world's premier producer of bee venom powder of the highest quality.
Georgian bee venom is in demand worldwide by pharmaceutical companies, due to its high quality.
Our bee venom powder is used to produce injectable solution, topical cream, pills, drops, to derive and made extraction one or another component of bee venom, such as melittin, phospholipase, hyaluronidase and other component and for scientific research.
www.ariestrade.com /thefirm.cfm?firmid=8526&listtype=1   (218 words)

  
 Apiservices - Beekeeping - Georgian Queens
Since Caucasian bee was discovered by Gorbachov (1916) it's good qualities are well known everywhere in the World.
Caucasica has the longest tongue (7.2 mm) which performs better in the flows of many plants (acacia, Lucerne, clover and so on).
Besides, Caucasian bee is the most gentle and high productive.
www.beekeeping.com /georgian-queens   (136 words)

  
 Apis mellifica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
the biggest bee of these four species - worker bee 18-19 mm
cutting the comb is doing in the night becouse of a big aggression of these bees
Indian bee - Apis indica = Apis carana
www.volny.cz /jana.r/druhvc_e.htm   (170 words)

  
 Index
Bolling Bee Farms, growing into its 79th season, is still rearing the highly productive, yet, gentle bee first offered by Grandfather Zed Gafford in 1925.
The mother stock of our Mountain Grey Caucasian came from Tiflis, Georgia (Russia) in 1922.
Due to weekend layovers, bees and other live animals mailed on Fridays and Saturdays will no longer be insured by USPS.
www.bollingbee.com   (72 words)

  
 BeeHoo the beekeeping directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
We are producing bee protectors like gloves with ventilation and non-ventilated for this industry for past 10 years.
My nmae is Brian B. Dalilis a well experienced bee keeper is looking for a job as a bee keeper in Canada and can stay also in winter time and summer time.
bee venon - Annonce postée par Florea Toader
www.beehoo.com /f_contenu.php   (10389 words)

  
 magyar22
mas phuki_ the smallest kind of bee; mas, mesi a kind of small bee; mes beehive; mes nayi honey /Gondi; miceri, miciri a species of bee /Kannad.a [sk]
macchia_ (Prakrit); me_cek bee (Pas'ai); machi fly, bee, dark spot (Ka_s'mi_ri_); makha, makhi fly, bee, swarm of bees (Sindhi_); ma_ks.ika pertaining to a bee (Ma_rkP.); honey (Sus'r.) [sk]
ma_chi_ bee; ma_khi_, makkhia, macchia honey (West Paha_r.i_); maci, macik sweet, good; maciana honey (Ashkun); maci, mac honey (Waigali_); maci_ (Kati); mat.ek (Pr.); machi_ (Shum.); ma_chi_ (Gawar-Bati); machi (Khowa_r); me~_ch (Bashkari_k); me_chi_ (Phalu_r.a); machi_ (Shina); ma_khi_ (S.L.); ma_chi_ (Hindi_); ma~_ch, dat.
member.melbpc.org.au /~tmajlath/magyar22.html   (3704 words)

  
 BeeSource.com | Suppliers | Bees | US
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