How do dead bees pollinate?
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The same way dead flowers get pollinated.
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It depends on the flower but they can attract moths, bees, beetles and bats. The reason for the scent is to attract the pollinator and the nectar is a reward for pollinating the flowers. Bee flowers are usually blue or yellow.
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to have a good idea have a look at the article below. hoppe it helps...\n\n\n\nPollination Adaptations\nFlowers need to be pollinated. Pollination is the process of moving the pollen grain from the anther of a stamen to the stigma of a carpel. There are a few flowers that can self-pollinate all on their own, but this limits them to inbreeding. Most species rely upon some kind of pollination vector to accomplish pollination. The vector can be any agent that can move pollen from anther to stigma. \n\nThere is evidence of water and wind as the pollination vector in certain species, but many species do not depend upon the random or downstream-only pollination pathways offered by these vectors. Indeed such vectors are only useful in situations where large populations of a very limited number of species are present. \n\nMost flowers have evolved to use a "smart bomb" or "magic bullet" vector...animals! These vectors have sensory organs to locate flowers, they have locomotion to get them to the flowers in spite of large spaces between individuals, and they have enough intelligence to remember that they can depend upon a reward if they visit one particular species repeatedly. \n\nAttracting the Pollinator\nIn order to effectively use an animal pollination vector, a flower needs to attract the animal for the first visit. This can be done in one of two ways: visual cues and olfactory cues. \n\nVisual Cues\nSome species use a color pattern known as a "bull's eye" to mark their position in the environment...to stand out against a background of green foliage. Obviously not too many animal-pollinated flowers are leaf-green! \n\na black-eyed susan...recall that there are over 100 species of unrelated black-eyed susans...one of the problems of common names. This one is in the genus, Rudbeckia. Notice its obvious bull's eye target appearance. The bull's eye is black and the yellow ring surrounds it to make it quite noticeable. \n\n\nThe daylily (Hemerocallis) also shows a prominent bull's eye, but notice how the color pattern is reversed. The bull's eye is light in color and the ring around it is very dark. The effect is the same however, the flower is going to be obvious to a potential pollinator flying overhead. \n\n\nIt is important that whatever color pattern is used is within the visible range of colors observable by the pollinator. Colors obvious to one animal may be invisible to another. Gaillardia (painted daisy). This species obviously uses a yellow bull's eye with surrounding red and yellow rings. One gets the appearance of a dartboard just looking at it. The pollinator visiting is butterflies. Butterflies definitely are attracted to red/yellow patterns, and they need the large landing platform provided by this wide flower. \n\n\nOn the other hand, Gaillardia does not limit its pollination to just butterflies. An afternoon of observation will tell you that even more visits are made by honeybees! Bees have no ability to perceive red colors, so how does that red/yellow pattern look to a bee? This requires some mental translation and some special photography for a human to appreciate what a bee might observe. \n\nFirst we need to eliminate red from the image. This can only be accomplished with fancy video work or black-and-white photography.\n\n\nBee vision does not include red, but it does extend into the ultraviolet. In other words, bees see colors that are invisible to us! Our film is not very sensitive to ultraviolet because it has been developed for showing images visible to humans. To correct that and see the ultraviolet patterns in these flowers, we need to use yet another filter. This filter blocks visible light and allows ultraviolet light to expose the film. Below is the ultraviolet image of the same two daisies taken seconds later with both filters in place: \n\n\ncenter of each daisy is totally absorbing the UV light. The petals around the perimeter are reflecting the UV
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I agree with the posters who say they're just honeybees.  Hopefully they're not killer bees.  Please do not try to kill them.  If you aren't willing to let them stay, find out about getting the hive moved to a different spot.  Unless you're allergic or they hive is in your way, there isn't really a reason for you to bother them.
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You need to get the sperm to the eggs and with an "army " of sperm, its more likely that some of it will eventually make it past all of the factors that might cause it from not reaching its target... such as when pollen is on a pollinator, some of it is usually lost in flight or just in the regualr movement of the animal that does that job. some plants are pollinated by the wind and the more that is released increases the  chance that some of it will reach the egg. Eggs are usually very close to the adult version of the plant or even within the plant before they are fertalized so they are mainly stationary... with more chances to reach the egg it increases the fecundity.
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Not around here they aren't. I haven't heard any evidence to say they are, but it is possible. Not very likely however. I would say it is more likely that they are disapearing from a specific place, such as around you, because of changes in the climate, introducion of a new species that is competeing with or eating the bees, or something like that.
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Although a hive only needs 20-30 lb. of honey to survive an average winter, the bees are capable, if given the space of collecting much more. This is what the beekeeper wants them to do. Honey Bees are the highest form of insect life, they live in a well organised colony that does not need to hibernate. They produce honey and store it in wax comb and use the same hive from one year to the next.\n\nIndeed, they make lots of honey so they will have plenty of food for times when flower nectar is unavailable, such as winter.  Unlike most insects, honeybees remain active through the winter, consuming and metabolizing honey in order to keep from freezing to death.\n\nWorkers born early in the season will live about 6 weeks while those born in the fall will live until the following spring.
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A bee. With its life-saving honey. I will call her Queen. :)
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During the course of one queen bee it lays thousands of eggs during its life time which may spread around two years or so.During flower season when more nectar and pollen can be collected from flowers the queen becomes more active and lays more eggs. So during that season the colony becomes really big and the worker bees decide to split and they make queen cells by combining three cells into one and a four five queen cells may be formed and they feed them with royal gelly food. Just before the first new queen bee comes out of the cell the queen be which is already there may fly along with thousands of workers to another location and to build a new hive.Like this one or two more SWARMS may go and thereafter they may not\nallow more queens to come out and sometimes two queens may fight and one gets killed and other queen celss are destroyed.\nVery rarely when a queen bee is so old and is past egg laying capacity, it may be allowed to live in the same hive but the active young queen bee is the head and lays eggs etc.
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A bee named Midas becomes obsessed with his part of the honeycomb looking better than all the other bees.  He spends all his time making sure his section is turned just right so that when the sun hits it the honey will glint like gold.  But since he has to stay right at the hive protecting his section all the time he does not do the hard work of gathering and collecting the pollen to bring back to the hive.  Soon his section is drained of honey and begins to dry up.  The rest of the hive complains to the queen bee and old Midas is kicked out like a. . . BUM-blebee.
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Dead moss can be brought to life by spreading it on a good soil, pressing it gently and keeping it moist. Protect it from harsh Sunlight. There are certain species of moss such as Sphagnum that respond to the care quickly. Others may not.
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Butterflies...They help pollinate plants
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Kill them on a cool night or before dawn when it is coldest.  They are least active at that time and will all be in the nest.  You should be able to find an aerosol or at the home supply and hardware stores specifically for wasps.  Don't dispose of the paper hive during a hot time of the day because there is no guarantee that they will all be dead.
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Honey bees do not fly in the rain or when temperatures are below 50° F. Orchard mason bees will forage in light rain and slightly colder temperatures, providing some pollination when honey bees do not. This year in MN, we had extended periods of rain during apple bloom, which limited the time all bees could fly. Between the cold temperatures, the lack of "bee-flying" weather, and reduced number of honey bee colonies available for pollination, there will probably be a significant reduction in fruit set this year in some orchards. \n\nalso see:
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d's has it, but is missing a couple of things:\n\n1.  Some insect-pollinated flowers have a sugary liquid ("nectar") that insects eat or collect.\n\n2.  Some insect-pollinated flowers have a distinctive scent.  This odor will let the appropriate insects know that the flower is open (and ready for collecting of pollen or nectar).
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apical: constituting the apex; apiculture; raising and care of bees
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The wax that they use is secreted from glands on their bellies.  Don't know what the spider web stuff is you refer to, perhaps spiders which do sometimes spin webs in the area near hives. Beekeepers with commercial hives are always attentive to the possibility that a black-widow may have set up house-keeping on the pallet or hive stand for hives.