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A brief insight into bees and their colonies and products.

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A worker bee is any female (eusocial) bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Insects

A new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees, a process called swarming. In the prime swarm, about 60% of the worker bees leave the original ...

Domain: Agriculture; Category: General agriculture

A bee sting is strictly a sting from a bee (honey bee, bumblebee, sweat bee, etc.). In the vernacular it can mean a sting of a bee, wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket. Some people may even call the bite ...

Domain: Animals; Category: 

Slumgum in beekeeping is the residue of the beeswax rendering process. When the beeswax from brood comb is rendered to produce clean wax, it leaves behind the pupal lining, wax moth cocoons, ...

Domain: Agriculture; Category: Agricultural produce

Royal gelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, and as well as adult queens.

Domain: Agriculture; Category: Agricultural produce

The term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony or hive; she is usually the mother of most, if not all, the bees in the hive. The queens are ...

Domain: Animals; Category: Insects

Propolis is a resinous mixture that honey bees collect from tree buds, sap flows, or other botanical sources. It is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the hive.

Domain: Agriculture; Category: Agricultural produce

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