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	Honey Bee - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		As with all bees, pollen is the principal source of protein, fat, minerals, and vitamins, the food elements essential for the growth and development of larvae of all three castes.
		Worker bees are raised in the multi-purpose, horizontally arranged cells of the comb.
		Bees under observation in a glass hive demonstrate their instructions so clearly that it is possible for trained observers to understand the directions given by the dancers.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562611___2/Honey_Bee.html (2272 words)

	Bee
		Worker bees secrete the wax used to build the hive, clean and maintain the hive, raise the young, guard the hive and forage for nectar and pollen.
		Drone bees are the male bees of the colony.
		The primary purpose of a drone bee is to fertilize a new queen.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Bee.html (508 words)

	Drone (bee) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Female worker bees, develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid in origin, which means that the sperm from a father provides a second set of 16 chromosomes for a total of 32 - one set from each parent.
		Drones are characterized by eyes that are twice the size of those of worker bees and queens, and a body size greater than that of worker bees, though usually smaller than the queen bee.
		Drones fly in abundance in the early afternoon and are known to congregate in drone congregation areas a good distance away from the hive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drone_(bee) (832 words)

	Hivetool.com Beekeeping Guide - The Drone Bee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The drones are the male bees in the colony.
		Drones who succeed in mating with a queen during her nuptial flight perish in the act.
		The young drones are fed by the workers; the older drones feed themselves honey directly from the storage cells.
	www.hivetool.com /guide/dronebee.htm (146 words)

	Honeybee Facts
		Nearly all of the bees in a hive are worker bees.
		Male bees, whose main function in the colony is to fertilize the queen.
		In the Autumn drones are expelled from the hive by the female worker bees.
	www.backyardbeekeepers.com /facts.html (1820 words)

	Welcome to B.Hive.com.sg
		The Drone Bee is the male bee of the colony.
		They are very experience bees but they are too old to do much flying thus they will be stationed at the entrance of the hive to guard the hive from other insects or bees from other colony to enter to harm their colony or snatch their food.
		When the bees want to produce this bee wax, they will consume large amounts of honey the previous night, rest at the ceiling of the hive so that these honey consumed will turn into bee wax and form at their stomach surface through the wax holes at their body.
	www.bhive.com.sg /english/bees_home.htm (1127 words)

	Honey Bee Colony
		Honey bees have become so highly specialized in their functions that no individual bee, including the queen, is capable of establishing a new colony alone.
		Drones range 8 miles or more in their flights and are welcomed into any colony, provided there is an abundance of nectar and pollen.
		At the end of the feeding period, attendant bees seal the mature larva in its cell by means of a porous wax capping.
	www.gobeekeeping.com /o8913.htm (379 words)

	Bee Happy!: B-keeping Glossary
		The bee "liner" would wait for bees to return to the honey source and plot a course in the direction of the departing bees based on the time is took the bees to return.
		Bees in dry swarms are often aggressive until a hive is found (or given) and the bees are able to feed.
		Robber bees are often shiny and fler than other field bees due to their age (wear and tear), and use "sneaky" tactics to gain entrance to hives in its effort to rob.
	pages.prodigy.net /dscribner/bees/fbeespgg.html (6642 words)

	Honeybee Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Drone's eyes and antennae are specialized for seeing, following, and mating with a queen and most of the drones' internal organs are designed for flying fast enough to catch the queen or for delivering sperm cells into her oviduct.
		Generally the bee pulls herself away, leaving the venom pouch and sting in the invader; the worker soon dies because of the abdominal rupture.
		A single bee will visit different flowers in the morning and, if there is sufficient attraction and reward in a particular kind of flower, she will make visits to that type of flower for most of the day, unless the plants stop producing reward or weather conditions change.
	plantphys.info /Plants_Human/bees/bees.html (2337 words)

	1997 4-H Essay Contest Winner
		The drone bees are fed by the worker bees with regurgitated nectar.
		The Africanized Honey bee is not as docile as the European Honey bee.
		The defensive behavior of the Africanized Honey bee is an inherited trait.
	insects.tamu.edu /youth/bee/b97essay.html (1368 words)

	Honeybee pictures and information from Golden Blossom Honey.
		The drone bee is always male and his entire body is adapted to perform his sole function - mating.
		The simple fact that the queen bee is fed lavishly results in numerous anatomical differences between she and the worker.
		At the hive the nectar is transferred from the "field" bee to the "house" bee tongue-to-tongue.
	www.goldenblossomhoney.com /honeybee.html (1885 words)

	BeeSource.com \| POV \| USDA \| Breeding Improved Honey Bees
		Inheritance of eye color in the drone bee is particulate but not duplicate, for he receives either W or w from his mother since he does not have a father.
		If a queen bee has a W gene on both of her number 1 chromosomes, she is represented by the formula WW and is said to be homozygous for the W locus.
		The bee breeder must be ever alert and try to reduce the environmental variation to a minimum so that the variation he observes and upon which he bases his selection will be due to genetic factors.
	www.beesource.com /pov/usda/breeding2.htm (2275 words)

	Drone (bee) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Drones never exhibit other typical worker bee behaviors -- such as nectar and pollen gathering, nursing, hive construction, etc. Since the bee's stinger is a modified ovipositor (an egg laying organ), the drone is defenceless and can not defend the hive.
		This has led the drone to be considered as a cannonacal example of a worthless member of a society.
		All bees, when they sense the hive's temperature deviating from proper limits, either generate heat by shivering, or exhaust heat by moving air with their wings -- behaviors which drones do share with worker bees.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/drone_bee (399 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bee
		She is the only fertile female, and deposits all the eggs from which the other bees are produced.
		The larvae and pupae in a frame of honeycome are referred to as frames of brood and are often sold (with adhering bees) by beekeepers to other beekeepers to start new beehives.
		The queen bee is typically able to survive on her own for at least a short time (unlike queens in eusocial species who must be cared for at all times).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=bee (1104 words)

	Honeybee basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The nurse bees feed the larva a diet of only royal jelley, or bee's milk, made from a gland on their heads.
		This is necessary since worker bees only live 6 weeks in the summertime; and a colony needs to have 40 to 50 thousand bees at its peak.
		Worker bees gather pollen which they stick to their back legs, to carry back to the hive where it is used as food.
	www.roctronics.com /BEE-BASE.HTM (638 words)

	FAQ Bee Biology and Behaviour
		The drone bee does no work however in the early autumn they are evicted by the workers and die.
		When a bee stings, barbs in the lance of the sting cause it to firmly stick into the victim pulling out the venom sacs and glands when the bee is shaken off.
		The answer was surprising, the bees indicated the direction exactly across the mountain at an angle they had never flown but had calculated in their head.
	www.bbka.org.uk /faq.php (2363 words)

	The Three Bees
		Drone bee soon grew tired and wanted to stop for a rest, but worker bee could see dark clouds approaching and wanted to have another quick search before rain came and drove them back to their hive.
		Without a second thought worker bee landed close to one side of the ant with a loud angry buzz, in order to distract the ant and wake her friend.
		Worker bee took her bearings and flew for home, but it was over a mile away and she was soon buffeted by the fierce cold wind and the rain began to fall heavily.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/4535.htm (1324 words)

	Honey bee pheromones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Honey bee pheromones are mixtures of chemical substances released by individual bees into the hive or environment that cause changes in the physiology and behaviour of other bees.
		Ethyl oleate is released by older forager bees to slow the maturing of nurse bees.
		This pheromone is emitted by the worker bees and used for orientation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pheromone_(honey_bee) (1264 words)

	Highly-parallel Integrated Virtual Environment
		It maintains consistency of software across all the bees and the drones and is the global system software file server for the bees.
		Program development software is only installed on the drones, but all runtime libraries are installed on both the bees and the drones.
		Each parent bee completes its "rsh" command before its children bees are permitted to begin their "rsh" commands.
	newton.gsfc.nasa.gov /thehive/thehive_dir/use.html (924 words)

	Bee Pictures
		At this time the queen bee is the one who does all the work because there are no worker bees to do the work yet.
		Bees use these to find the entrance to their colony or hive, and they release them on flowers so other bees know which flowers have nectar.
		These can be released voluntarily by a bee when it senses danger or when a bee stings another animal.
	www.junglewalk.com /photos/bee-pictures-I2851.htm (922 words)

	drone - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, also known as a drone, an aircraft without a human operator on board.
		Drone (music), in music, continuous low, dull humming of a single pitch.
		Bee, bumblebees, diagram of anatomy, honey bees, social organization of hives
	encarta.msn.com /drone.html (192 words)

	Bee Hill Honey - Quality Honey Home Grown in Cincinnati, Ohio
		"Bee venom therapy" is widely practiced overseas and by some in the U.S. to address health problems such as arthritis, neuralgia, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even MS.
		All worker bees are undeveloped females, and therefore are not able to reproduce.
		A hive consists of 20,000 to 30,000 bees in the winter, and over 60,000 to 80,000 bees in the summer.
	www.beehillhoney.com /facts.html (771 words)

	Lesson 1.1, The Honey Bee Body
		Friendly warning: Although your instinct may be to choose yellow-and-fl for the body colors, honey bees are actually deep burnt-orange with alternating darker bands on their abdomen.
		Staple or paste construction paper bees to either the top of the hat or the outside edge, as student desires.
		After the students have completed their construction paper bees, bring the class together and have the children volunteer to tell the class one new thing they learned about bees.
	ag.arizona.edu /pubs/insects/ahb/lsn11.html (891 words)

	Hive Mind Bee Blog: Drone Layer
		Worried about the presence of drone cells and absence of worker cells a couple weeks back, I went into the hives to see what was up.
		The picture on the left are Hive 1 drone cells, you can tell because they're larger and bullet-shaped.
		Problem is, it's already pretty deep into the laying season, so the bees that came with the original queen may be nearing the end of their lifespan, so there's a danger there may be a population crash if the new queen can't turn around a new generation fast enough.
	www.hive-mind.com /bee/blog/2006/05/drone-layer.html (400 words)

	CC Pollen Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is a bitter-sweet moment for the Drone, however, for he loses his life in the process of mating.
		Yet, it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, because if the drone lives into the fall season, when he isn't needed, then he is unceremoniously cast out of the hive where he will starve to death.
		And so, that is the sad story of the Drone bee, whose sole purpose in life is (similar to other species of animals that we won't mention) to strive for one brief shining moment, basking in the light of the irresistable female...one bitter-sweet shining moment.
	www.ccpollen.com /pgtour9.shtml (243 words)

	Busy as a Bee
		Not only that, but all the bees in the family have jobs to make the hive a good, safe place to be.
		To be a good Bee Keeper, you must find out why bees are helpful to the Earth, what different kinds of bees there are, and how bees live.
		Find out all you can about a bees home and then be ready to compare the bees home to your home.
	www.dedham.k12.ma.us /webquest/spring2002/hk/bee.html (587 words)

	Drone Carpenter Bee: Xylocopa virginica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Carpenter Bees are wood boring bees, which makes them unloved, but they are valuable pollinators of wild and domestic fruit blossoms that feed wildlife and us.
		Female carpenter bees are less likely to be noticed than males, because they go about their business visiting flowers and provisioning nests.
		This gentle giant bee is no threat whatsoever; he has no stinger.
	pollinator.com /gallery/drone_carpenter.htm (147 words)

	Drone / Bee and flower - Canon Digital Photography Forums
		Drone / Bee and flower - Canon Digital Photography Forums
		Don't know what the 2nd one is, but nice bee shot.
		HTML in messages is not allowed, plain website addresses are automatically made active by the board.
	photography-on-the.net /forum/showthread.php?t=100163 (323 words)

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