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2024 Training Session 2: Bee Biology
7 March, 2024 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
2024 Training Session 2: Bee Biology
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• Malcolm Wilkie, Rob Gore
• CD about the life cycle of the honeybee.
• Bee Life cycle. Identification of the 3 castes.
• Development of bees from egg to adult.
• Functions of the 3 castes in the hive.
• Organisation of the colony – various worker tasks.
• Reproduction of the colony.
• The swarming impulse.
• The bee’s annual cycle.
• Bee products: honey, wax, pollen, & propolis; how & why the bees use them. Water.
• Foraging bee communication, pollination, and interaction plants & bees.