Albina | Facts & Information

Bees are flying insects, classified within the superfamily Apoidea within the suborder Apocrita, which also contains Wasps and ants, with which bees are very related.

The Romanian bee (Apis mellifera carpatica) was formed in the specific pedo-climatic and basic mellifera conditions in the Carpatho-Danubian area.

The temperate continental climate in our country is characterized by relatively low rainfall, high temperature variations and strong winds.

Five main bioapic areas are accepted for our bee (reference):

Southern Danube plain (including Dobrogea and Delta);

Subcarpathian Hill area;

Western Plain (including Banat);

Transylvanian Plateau;

The Moldavian Plateau.

Bee Feed

Bees are adapted to feeding on nectar and pollen, the first as a source of energy (because of the sugar content), the second as a source of protein (used more to feed larvae).

Nectar is obtained from the flowers of melliferous plants with the help of the trunk.

Features Bee

Many species of bees are little known. The smallest Bee is the dwarf Bee (minimum Trigona) with a length of about 2.1 mm (5/64"). The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, which can reach 39 mm (1.5") in length.

The most common types of bees in the northern hemisphere are halictidae, or sweat-attracted bees, small bees that are often mistakenly considered wasps or flies. The most famous bee species is the European bee (Apis mellifera). The care of bees of this species is called beekeeping or beekeeping.

It is a productive bee, in the families of record bees, in exceptional conditions of picking, honey production can reach 50-60 kg/family. The Bee's trunk is between 6.02-6.64 mm long, the length of the forewing 9.0-9.4 mm.

Breeding Bee

In the bee family there are three types of individuals: Queen,worker bees and drones.Worker bees: their number is variable, oscillating from 10000 in the winter period,up to 40000-80000 in vara.Au smaller waist(12-14 mm), a weight of approx. 100mg and the wings are the same length as abdomenul.In actually workers are females with undeveloped reproductive organs.Queen: it is the only fertilized female in the hive, being responsible for breeding families of albine.De usually in the Hive is a single queen, with a longer body (20-25 mm), small head,highly developed abdomen,smaller wings and a weight of 250-280 mg.Drones: are the males that mate the Queen, being present in the nest from spring to toamna.In numbering several hundred,they have a length of 15-17 mm,wings that exceed the abdomen, globular head and a weight of 200 mg.

In a calendar year the bee family has a different development,the number of individuals increasing or decreasing depending on the season and implicitly the environmental conditions.Basically the life of the bee family comprises four large periods.

First period: it is characterized by replacing the old bees that have wintered, with the young bee, New out of the cells primavara.Pe at the end of February,the Queen begins to lay eggs in the cells of the honeycombs in the middle of the ball,where the thermal regime allows brood growth.After the bees make the cleaning flight, the queen lays more and more eggs.

As time heats up,the Queen's egg count reaches 1,000 eggs per day, with old bees that wear out being gradually replaced. The percentage of young bees always increases and it comes to the situation that at the end of April the whole Bee will be inlocuita.Se she knows that a young bee has a high power of caring for larvae, being able to feed 2,3 or even 4, the pace of Family Development being very high.

Second period: it is also called the growth period.Nectar and pollen are found in abundance and make their appearance.The Queen is heavily Fed, lays over 2000 eggs/day,the number of nurse bees increases and is reached in the situation where 3-4 nurses care for a larva.When this phenomenon overlaps with other favoring factors (lack of space,insufficient ventilation,etc.), swarming chills appear.

Bees build swarming muzzles, in which the queen lays eggs at intervals of several zile.La urdinis is observed Bee barbs caused by the large crowding that exists in the hive.After 1-3 days from the first hatching,the first swarming occurs,the Queen with a part of the young bees,accompanied by many drones leaving the hive.

This swarm which is called the primary swarm and which contains approx. 50% of the hive population sits after a few minutes of flight on a branch or other support.from where they will then fly to another destination.

In the basic family, 8 days after the first hatching,the first young Queen comes out.Her intention is to kill the queens that have not hatched from the snouts,succeeding in doing so if left by the bees.

If the family remains in the cold of the swarm, the bees do not let the young Queen to kill their sisters,and on the 9th day from the exit of the first swarm,the second swarm comes out with the unmatched Queen.The exit of swarm 2 may be delayed by unfavorable(rainy) weather.When this happens, this swarm contains several young queens.

The life span of the working bee depends on the degree of wear and tear as a result of the intense activities carried out by it (brood growth and nectar and pollen picking activity). Thus, the bees hatched in the active season (from spring, March to summer, around august) live only 40 days while the bees hatched in autumn live until next spring, when the generation exchange is made (6-9 months).

The life span of drones is between two and eight weeks and varies depending on the season (active or resting period) and geographical area.

The Queen is the longest-lived of the members of the bee family and can live up to 8 years (but it is economically efficient only a year or two, after which it must be changed), is active throughout life and can lay 1500-2500 and even 3000 eggs in 24 hours in June. During this period of intense ponta the Queen is carefully cared for and well fed by the bees in her suite. In families of bees that die in winter due to lack of food, the Queen is the last to die, being fed with the last drop of honey.