http://www.beekeepersfriend.com/2007/09/15/guard-bees/ Peaches' Beekeeping Blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:38:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.beekeepersfriend.com/2007/09/15/guard-bees/#comment-134 ekpeach Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:16:55 +0000 http://www.beekeepersfriend.com/2007/09/15/guard-bees/#comment-134 Jack, People will sell anything online. Bees don't use the web so they have to improvise and make do with what they have. Have you ever been to an small old country church and had someone hand you a fan so you could fan yourself during the service? That is making do with what you have. Jack, People will sell anything online. Bees don’t use the web so they have to improvise and make do with what they have. Have you ever been to an small old country church and had someone hand you a fan so you could fan yourself during the service? That is making do with what you have.

]]> http://www.beekeepersfriend.com/2007/09/15/guard-bees/#comment-84 Bees and Rain : Beekeepers Friend Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:39:23 +0000 http://www.beekeepersfriend.com/2007/09/15/guard-bees/#comment-84 [...] Before I tell you any more, here is a link to show you the life cycle of the honeybee. Make sure you know what the bees do in the hive normally. First of all the normal functions are: queen bee (producing eggs for population), nurse bees (caring for the brood), housekeepers (keeps the place clean), cooks (those bees that take the nectar and pollen from the field force and processes and stores them in the wax cells), engineers and laborers (repairs old wax cells and builds new wax cells), climate control operators (heating and air conditioning and humidity control), undertakers (removing the dead adults and trash), and guards (protectors against marauders and robber-bees). [...] […] Before I tell you any more, here is a link to show you the life cycle of the honeybee. Make sure you know what the bees do in the hive normally. First of all the normal functions are: queen bee (producing eggs for population), nurse bees (caring for the brood), housekeepers (keeps the place clean), cooks (those bees that take the nectar and pollen from the field force and processes and stores them in the wax cells), engineers and laborers (repairs old wax cells and builds new wax cells), climate control operators (heating and air conditioning and humidity control), undertakers (removing the dead adults and trash), and guards (protectors against marauders and robber-bees). […]

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