What happened to the bees when they took them up into space...?
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The Columbia carried carpenter bees.  Those died when the shuttle blew up. Amazingly, some Japanese killifish survived the destruction.\n\nThere is also evidence of other changes of insects in space.  Honey bees\n(Apis mellifica) were unable to fly normally and tumbled in weightlessness. \nHouse flies (Muscus domestica ) mostly limited themselves to walking on the\nwalls.  When they did fly, they apparently could control motion in all three\naxes, although flight only lasted for a few seconds.  Moths (Anticarsis\ngammatalis) that developed in space, learned not to fly and preferred to float\nwithout wing beat.  Whereas adults that were developed on Earth, then sent\ninto space, had problems controlling pitch.  A spider (Araneous diadematus)\nspun finer web thread in microgravity.\nhttp://www.bio.net/hypermail/bionews/1995-July/002285.html
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I can barely remember that day in kindergarten. All the adults standing around in disbelief at what had happened. I think even at that age I was shocked as I watched the television in the general assembly area. One of the teachers left the room grief stricken after watching the news footage just once. Now many years later the shuttles still continue to launch. The brave men and women still going into space as if in tribute to all those who have died pursuing the goal of space travel. They carry on in the face of tragedy, every step forwards honoring the challenger astronauts.
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It depends on whether the bees are a swarm or actually ensconced within the tree.  Actually, It really doesn't matter.  Once bees swarm you have about 1/2 hour after they coalesce to get them into a hive (or they will find their own place).  So you have to have all the necessary equipment available beforehand.  Thus, the expiration of your time limit is rapidly approaching.\n\nCollecting swarms is very easy.  Bees are essentially robots, behaviourally programmed.  While swarming, most other behaviours are bypassed.  Swarming bees are amazingly tolerant of handling (for example: if a swarming bee tangled in your hair, you will get stung because YOU panic, if you sit quietly, the bee will untangle itself and fly off).  \n\nSwarming behaviour consists of:\n1) The queen leaving the hive;\n2) A mass of bees joins her;\n3) The swarm leaves the near vicinity if the hive;\n4)  The swarm coalesces (usually on a branch), and sends scouts out.\n5)  The scouts search for a new "enclosed" space for the colony.\n6)  Upon finding a new home, the scout returns to the colony and conveys this info.\n7)  The colony moves to the new location.\n\nI collect bees with the following:  a hive box and a 3'x4' piece of canvas (page of newspaper will do).  You may also need a 20"x20" (or similar size) cardboard box, ladders, loppers, and other tools.  I would also recommend a bee bonnet and a smoker,\n\nUpon arriving at the reported location of the swarm:\n1)  I locate the swarm, and place tarp on the ground near the swarm (generally under it).\n2)  I place the hive box, with  the opening just on one edge of the tarp with the remainder of the tarp in front of the hive box.\n3)  I cut the branch off the tree and lay it on the tarp.  OR\n4)  If the branch is too thick/long to easily cut and handle, or if someone doesn't want their tree butchered, I hold the box directly under the swarm, grab the branch and shake vigorously one or two times.  This will dislodge the swarm into the box.  I immediately place the box on the tarp on one side with the opening near the hive box opening (using the box method, I have collected swarms up to 20 feet up in a tree).\n5)  I move the bees ONLY AFTER NIGHTFALL!  If you move them during daylight, some bees will be out foraging and when they return their HOME will not be there.  There is nothing more ornery than a bee that returns home and finds it gone.  Also, the hive must be moved at least three, preferably five miles from it's location.  This distance causes the foraging bees to reprogram the new location of the hive and return to the new location.\n\nYour options:\n\n1)  If the bees are inside the trunk of the tree, fumigate the tree.  Removing bees from an enclosed space is nigh on impossible unless you have  access to the queen.\n2)  There are multiple sources on the web for good answers on beekeeping.  Try google.com or yahoo.com.  \n3)  Read The "Hive and the Honey Bee" by .Dadant & Sons; Rev. ed edition .  Also "The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture"  A.I. Root.  Best general texts available.\n\nYou may use this information to help your dad, or to further your quest for understanding the world of Bees and beekeeping.  If you use this because you are too lazy to do homework, May you be Stung on the Tongue!
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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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I'm being attacked by a swarm of the little beggars right now and it's making it hard to type. Ah that's the last one good. Any way before tonight I would have thought not likely but then I heard this buzzing, I looked out threw the window and snap, their all over me. Oh wait these are honey bees, oh dear; my mistake; sorry!
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they are looking for a new home. While they are doing that the whole swarm hangs out some place they think is nice (don't know why they prefer your place). While they are hanging out they send off scout bees who look at potential home sites and eventually they will choose one and move there. Unless you bother them they should not be aggressive. \nIf there is a bee keeper not to far from you, it is probably his bees and it could be a couple of different swarms. Then contact the bee keeper to keep better watch on his bees. Even if it is not their swarm a bee keeper may be interested in collecting it anyway. \nIf it is the same swarm, they may be wild bees, and not having much luck with their chosen spot. \n\nI guess you must be living somewhere where it already is warm, in the north it would be very early for bees to swarm
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there was something up the hill, from outa space i think, and the force pushed Jack down, being the man he was he said no Jill I will check it out first, you use your cell and call Sckully and Moulda, he then said beam my up Scotty but alas, Scotty was not there, the outaspace beings were so angry they roared and the force pushed Jack down, he fell and broke his "crown" which really was a radar thingie so Jill could not call Sckully, she decided to deal with the outaspace thingies and they roared again, but the force was weak, so she realised that she would have to fall down as Jack did to make him seem like a man, you know, so she rolled dowdn the hill, and remembered jack skipped breakfast that morning.\n\nmy version. apparently all nursery rhymes are being rewritten like humpty dumpty...its "too violent" yeah right!
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It's pollen from flowers which has been packed together by bees and brought into the hive.
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The sky was grey and all hope was lost if it weren't for teh gobblers that were actually chickens but were really bunnies in costumes dressed as chickens dressed as gobblers candy. Then a superhero team of power ranger squirrels came to save the day.\n \nThe gobblers were ready to feast upon Ms. Universe;s flesh when the power ranger squirrels barged in, sat down and joined them. They decided Ms. Universe tastes disgusting and became vegeterians.\n\nTHE END
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The energy that was expounded by both forces was totally wasted, so therefore they will diminish and die.......:(:(:(  (~p~)
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Alien spacecraft particles. Part of the event detailed on MSNBC yesterday. You need to turn the pieces you find in at the local police station. They will reconstruct the spacecraft so we can transport all the stupid question asking people off of this planet.\nEnough said.\nPS. Welcome to the Yahoo Answers!
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Bumblebees can fly. On an average, a bumblebee travels at a rate of 3 meters per second, beating its wings 130 times per second.\n\nHow did this business of proving that a bumblebee can't fly originate? Who started the story?\n\nOne set of accounts suggests that the story first surfaced in Germany in the 1930s. One evening at dinner, a prominent aerodynamicist happened to be talking to a biologist, who asked about the flight of bees. To answer the biologist's query, the engineer did a quick "back-of-the-napkin" calculation.\n\nTo keep things simple, he assumed a rigid, smooth wing, estimated the bee's weight and wing area, and calculated the lift generated by the wing. Not surprisingly, there was insufficient lift. That was about all he could do at a dinner party. The detailed calculations had to wait. To the biologist, however, the aerodynamicist's initial failure was sufficient evidence of the superiority of nature to mere engineering. \n\nWhatever its origins, the story has had remarkable staying power, and the myth persists that science says a bumblebee can't fly. Indeed, this myth has taken on a new life of its own as a piece of "urban folklore" on the Internet.\n\nIn some sense, the story has done its share to inspire further research. In recent years, scientists have tackled the problem of insect flight from a number of different angles and gained new insights into the complexities of powered flight. \n\nIt's quite possible, for instance, to calculate correctly the area of a rectangular piece of property just by multiplying the length times the width. Yet you can still get the "wrong answer" from a practical point of view, maybe because the measurements of the length and width were inaccurate or there was some ambiguity about the plot's boundaries or shape.\n\nSo, no one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate for describing the flight of a bumblebee.\n\nInsect flight and wing movements can be quite complicated. Wings aren't rigid. They bend and twist. Stroke angles change. New, improved models take that into account.
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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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Yeah I have read about that a lot of natural and alternative medicine books advocate this idea.Supposedly the insects not only bees are able to sense the deficiency and become threatened .
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What kind of bees make milk?\n\n\nBoobies.
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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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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