HOW LONG CAN A BUMBLE BEE LIVE FOR? and how does it protect itself?
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The life span of bumble bees can vary greatly depending on what type of bee they are (i.e. drone, queen, forager).  A queen bee whom is the only sexually developed female in the hive has a life span of one to five years (different sites say different things).  There if only one queen be in a hive at a given time.  The forager bees (larger workers) have a life expectancy of around four to six weeks (these are the main type of bee you see).  A colony may have a wide range of bees, anywhere from a couple hundred to 50 000 individuals (once again, different sites can't seem to agree on the same information.  A drone is a male whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen.\n\nA bee will protect itself by using the stingers on the back of their abdomen.  It may also alert some of the other workers if the predator is thought to be much stronger.  One of the bees biggest predators is the Japanese Hornet, a foreign species of hornet brought over illegally from Japan.\n\nFun Fact: Bees beat their wings at about 11 400 wing strokes a minute giving them their distinctive buzz.
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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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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 can go anywhere they won't get wet. This includes places like the bark and leaves of trees, porches, grass, or anywhere else. But I suspect many just die, and it is the babies that live on. Flies don't live very long anyways, and the larva grow up fast. If a generation of flies die, the next will be around in a little bit.
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Yes off can keep beas away but also trying not to drink sweet drinks or at least have a cap on your drinks. also dont where bright clothing bees love that
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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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Gerbils usually live 3-4 years. Have a nice week. :)
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Bees stay in their hives. Some die of course but more are produced to replace them. The worker bees exercise their wings and bodies to create enough heat to keep themselves and the queen warm enough to survive.These worker bees consume part of the honey in the nest to replace the energy lost by their activities in grooming the queen, caring for the larvae and keeping warm. They stay very close to the hive during winters.\n\nThis is why beekeepers never remove all the honey from a hive. Honey is the bees' method of laying in a food supply. A very long or very cold winter can kill a lot of the worker bees. The remainder will remain close to the queen to keep her and the larvae alive until the weather warms.
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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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try this site http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-hummingbird.html ... oh the lifespan is 6-12 years
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It will normally die quite soon. But you could keep it going for several weeks, or months if you're lucky!\n\nFirstly, do your plants have pesticide on them, or were they bought or potted within the last year? If so, even if it doesn't kill the mantis directly the poison in the soil will be absorbed into the plants and then into the crickets you might FEED your mantis, and so the mantis will be poisoned. Any plants that have been potted for more than a year should be okay though. \n\nHave you got a suitable food supply? If it's a female she'll eat quite a LOT, and get very fat! She may even honour you by putting her ootheca in your home so you get dozens (or hundreds!) of tiny mantids next Spring..! If it's a male he won't eat a lot - maybe 2 bugs a week, depending on the size! Maybe less, if they're big bugs, more if they're smaller. They only eat living bugs, so don't let any fool sell you dead flies...!\n\nThe temperature of your home ... the warmer it is, the more the mantis will perk up, but it should be cooler at night - maybe let the heating go off at night, until it's really cold. In the daytime, if you can walk around the house with a long-sleeved t-shirt and not get goose-bumps on your arms it will be okay! \n\nYou could buy a heat mat for insects, you're supposed to put them under the container the bug's in, but if you put it by the plants the mantis will surely gravitate towards it when it wants to. Don't let your home get too hot though, the mantis might 'dry up' a bit. As it will be living on or near your plants there should be enough humidity for the mantis, so that's good..! Spray the plants with a mister that has NEVER been used with pesticides - the mantis can drink when it needs to then..!\n\nBut don't forget that it's already an old lady (or man) now. It's inevitable that it can't last much longer - it's already lived the equivalent of it's three score and ten! It's very sad to see them die of old age ... but it's nice to know that you made their last days more comfortable..!
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A tortoise can live for 170 years, one recently was found with an old ball musket round embeded in it.  The average lifespan for Females is around 80 years and males about 74.  It is difficult to give any degree of precision because of so many external factors that influence this number.  However, on a small scale there are bacteria that can live many thousands of years while frozen.
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It's true the ADULT Mayfile only lives a day or so, but the other stages of the life-cycle live the whole rest of the year. (Egg, Larva, Pupa) So, there are always "mayflies" around. They are beautiful, they feed fish and birds and bats, and they are a source of wonder and delight. That's enough reason to be around for me.
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Here is what i found for you:\n\nThe Life Cycle of the Carribian Hermit Crab\n\n The reproductive organs of hermit crabs are located near and just below the crab’s heart and open to the outside at the base of the last pair of walking legs in the male. In the female, they’re located at the base of the middle pair of walking legs. Female hermit crabs usually lay their eggs shortly after copulating,  however they can also store sperm for many months. The eggs are fertilized as they are laid by passing through the chamber holding the sperm. The eggs are carried and hatched in a mass attached to the abdomen inside the shell.\n\n      The number of eggs is usually large, but depends on the crab’s size. The developing crabs go through four stages, two of which (the baupilus and protozoea) occur while still in the egg. Most crabs hatch at the third stage, the zoea. This is a larvae stage wherein the crab has several long spines, a long narrow abdomen, and large fringed antennae. The fourth stage of development is the magelops.\n\n      Hermit crabs are usually born in the ocean, near the shore. Because of this, hermit crabs cannot reproduce in captivity. After the crabs are born, they move inland away from the water, where they search for abandoned shells to inhabit. Hermit crabs then begin growing and developing through a process call molting. In this process, the crabs sheds their exoskeleton. During this, the crabs are extremely vulnerable and inactive, and usually find protection by burrowing in the ground. It takes around 10 days for their new exoskeleton to harden, and during this period the crab is able to regenerate any lost or broken claws or legs. A hermit crab can molt as often as every other month when they’re young, or every 18 months when they’re older. The life span of the hermit crab in the wild is up to 30 years, while those in captivity live 15 years at the most.\n\nTC
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Well, naturally put, it could last up to two months when separated from the plant. Poison tends to stay in the part of the plant that is toxic whether or not it is separated from the plant. Unless it is waterlogged, a pretty long time.
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Well depending on the species and how long ago its last meal was, it can live for anywhere from a few days to possibly a month or more. Spiders arent always sucessful predators and are commonly seen going several weeks without food, plus, if a spider can get in behind there, there is a good chance that many insects can get in there too, many of the ones you dont see in your house......I wont scare you with that too....you have enough of a problem with the spider!\n\nhaha, hope this helps!
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Honeybee life cycle\n\n\nHoneybees are social insects that live in a colony. As such, the honeybee life cycle depends greatly on this social structure.\n\n \nHoneybee swarm pitched on a high limb[edit]\nColony life\nUnlike a bumble bee colony or a wasp colony the life of the honeybee colony is perennial. There are three castes of bees: queens, which produce eggs; drones or males, which mate with the queen and have no stinger; and workers, which are all non-reproducing females. The queen lays eggs singly in cells of the comb. Larvae hatch from eggs in 3 to 4 days and are fed by worker bees and develop through several stages in the cells. Cells are capped by worker bees when the larvae pupates. Queen and drones are larger than workers and require enlarged cells to develop. A colony may typically consists of tens of thousands of individuals.\n\nDevelopment\nQueens complete development in 15.5 days, drones in 24 days and workers in 21 days for larvae and pupae stages. Only one queen is usually present in a hive. New virgin queens develop in enlarged cells through differential feeding of royal jelly by workers. When the existing queen ages or dies or the colony becomes very large a new queen is raised by the worker bees. The virgin queen takes one or several nuptial flights and once she is established starts laying eggs in the hive. A fertile queen is able to lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs. The unfertilized eggs develop into drones and the fertilized eggs develop into either workers or virgin queens. A queen may live three to five years; drones usually die before winter; and, workers may live for a few months.