Beekeeping tips that you might consider. The European Bee (also known as the Western Honey Bee) is the most commonly used species within North America by beekeepers due to their passive, subtle nature and rampant honey production. This type of Honey Bee rarely swarms like others within their family tend to do, which makes them both easy to work with and to care for. This species has largely been domesticated for agricultural uses and each bee happily returns to their manufactured housing after each pollination venture is completed. The efforts of the European Bee result in far greater crop yields for farmers and no other insect performs such a crucially important role within our ecosystems when compared to this species.
The vital pollinating process performed by the
European Bee is not a truly selfless act however, because they require nectar and other nutrients to produce honey in order to feed their offspring. Once the nectar is returned to the hive other worker bees will use secretions from their abdomen called beeswax to form combs where the sweet fluid can be stored and eventually transformed into honey, hence the common name honeycomb.
Through the use of smokers, devices that produce thick clouds of smoke which effectively calms the bees and deters swarming behavior, beekeepers can then extract the honey from the man-made colony without actually damaging it. The combs can also be processed to make candles and other popular household items because of their waxy workable texture. The use of manufactured beekeeper hives allows all of these tasks to be completed with little interruption to the colony itself, allowing the bees to focus on their vital agricultural tasks of improving crop production within blooming plants and trees throughout the nation.
The pollination process and the European Bee's direct effect on our ecosystem occur when a harvester bee collects
pollen and transfers it to a blooming orchard. The pollen will then fertilize the plant making it sexually mature, allowing for a larger harvest than what could have been accomplished without the European Honey Bee's presence. Although many fruit trees and other crops will naturally complete this maturity process from the wind or other insects, it is estimated that Honey Bees save US Agricultural workers an overwhelming $3.1 billion dollars by their natural fertilization from over two million individual hives. Without this species present farmers would not be able to survive during these troubling economic times and the European Bee's work ethic ensures that future generations will remain profitable.
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