If You Love Honey
by Karen Adams
Title
If You Love Honey
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
If you love honey, you love honeybees. If you love flowers, or fruits and vegetables, you should love honeybees!
Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive.
Many species still occur in the wild, but honeybees are disappearing from hives due to colony collapse disorder. Scientists are not sure what is causing this collapse.
Honeybees are important pollinators for flowers, fruits, and vegetables. They live on stored honey and pollen all winter and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. Members of the hive are divided into three types. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, and circulate air by beating their wings. The queen's job is simple—she lays the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. There is usually only a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special food called "royal jelly." This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen.
Queens regulate the hive's activities by producing chemicals that guide the behavior of the other bees. Male bees are called drones—the third class of honeybee. Several hundred drones live in each hive during the spring and summer, but they are expelled for the winter months when the hive goes into a lean survival mode.
Honeybees: Apis mellifera
Invertebrates
DIET: Herbivore
AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IN THE WILD: Up to 5 years
(This information is copied from: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/insects/honeybee/ )
I think it is up to all of us to find ways to give respect to all life on earth and if there is some action we can take to let creatures live a full live, we should do it! Hopefully we can figure out ways to save the wonderful honeybees for their good and for our own!
Thank you so much for looking at my images. I appreciate that very much.
I am very concerned with our environment and have decided to donate any money I make from any sales of this image to the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND.....because the Earth needs a good lawyer! We all need to speak up and support efforts to protect our environment. We will not get a second chance!
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October 27th, 2019
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