How do bees make their honey?
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Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is almost 80% water with some complex sugars. Bees use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.\n\nThe honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey.
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No it has not resolved and could never be! As long as there's honey, there will be bees.
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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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Bees live on their honey during the winter.  Many other insects do die, but only after laying eggs that will hatch in the spring.\n\nCheck this out:  http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/allyr/yf806.htm
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They do not become your minion. The bee colony is centered to the queen bee as it is the only individual in the colony with the capability to breed and renew the colony's numbers. Thus without the queen a colony would soon be wiped out with no new bees born. If you have a queen bee, the entire colony will follow it and make the nest whereever the queen resides. Beekeepers often use this method to keep hives by securing the queen in a hive with outlets only the smaller worker bees are capable of entering and exiting since the queen is several sizes larger. When they move the hive, the entire colony follows. You do not become the bees rulers, they just tolerate you and are only devoted to theur queen.
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Honey bees are attracted to plants with bright colours however they cant see red. All the bees (females  called workers) will go out and once one finds a spot with alot of flowers the bee marks that area with a scent returns to the hive to get the other bees so they dont waste time looking for flowers.
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A bee can calculate and communicate distance.
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You mean Honey pot.\n\n-HtJ
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There is a method that usually works. Turn the jar upside down and wait for a minute or so. You can recognize good quality honey by the number of little droplets coming down *slowly* from the bottom of the jar. The more the better. This method depends somehow on the temperature and type of jar but usually sugared honey will just pour down from one or two places around the middle of the jar's bottom.
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It is honey that is made from the pollen of the manuka bush in New Zealand.  They claim that there is not pollution there and so their honey is more pure and has special properties, as well as a special price.
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A whole lot of bees together?\n\nThat's a "SWARM."
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The queen bee is continuously laying eggs.  The queen actively secretes substances that support hive cohesiveness among the workers.  Once the queen ages the secretions are thought to decrease, promoting lessened allegiance and signalling the need to replace the queen.  Most eggs laid are fertilized and destined to be female workers.  However, when the larvae are fed an enriched diet from early in their existence, they develop into queens.  Usually more than one queen is reared to ensure success.  Once pupated and hatched the queen will make a maiden flight to mate with drones and then she will establish a new hive.  Ants are similar but the queen often survives longer and annual production of new queens establish new colonies.
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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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Birds and bees? There are birds and bees? What do birds and bees do together?
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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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Honey bees generally only sting to protect their hives. The bees that are capable of stinging are the female worker bees. Bee stingers are barbed and, after being thrust into the skin, are left in the skin but are pulled out of the abdomen of the bee. Poison sacs are attacked to the stinger and pump poison into the wound. Some people are very allergic to the poison and must be taken to the hospital. Others can get by with applying ice packs, calamine lotion, or taking antihistimines. The bee dies after losing its stinger, but you probably won't! \n\nThe widest part of this stinger is about 40 micrometers.
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the honey is food for the bee larvae. the bees themselves don't eat it. By nature bees are carnivores. Just look and an expired animal sometime. They harvest the nectar from the flower, condense it and vomit up the condensed nectar hence honey.