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Plasterer bee

…es Daviesanus The Plasterer bee is a solitary bee. Meaning that unlike the honeybee, it does not form larger communities with other plasterer bees. The do occur in colonies that share a larger area. The female plasterer bee builds a nest for itself and its larvae, but several females do not live together, and the males are unwelcoming in these nests. It can be difficult for an ordinary person to distinguish between a plasterer bee and a honeybee,…

Honey bee

(Latin: Apis mellifera) Bee – This is a honey bee This is one of the few, if not the only insect species to have become a true domestic animal. The ancient Egyptians had beehives some 5,000 years ago. The importance of honey bees as pollinators cannot be overestimated, and their honey has always been much sought after. Honey bees live in colonies with a highly developed social organization, which go on from one year to the next. Each colony consi…

Mason bee

…ey are solitary bees, meaning that they do not live-in communities, as the honeybee. There are several different types of mason bees, but there is no predominant difference. Neither in behavior, biology, or appearance and they are most often put in the same category i.e. the Osmia family. It should be noted that there is a big difference between the mason bees and plasterer bee. Mason bees build their own nests using brickwork, where plasterer bee…

Bumble bee wax moth

…included in the name of the moth. For the larvae are often found in bumble bee beehives. But a bumble bee beehive is just one in a series of nests where bumble bee wax moth can make itself comfortable. They also like to settle in wasp nests or bird nests. In rare cases, they may even seek out a honeycomb. Inside the bumblebees’ nest, the bumble bee wax moth lives on the organic material found, such as the content of flower dust in the wax pots. Bu…

Bee stings

Fig. 46. Peak season honey bees Honeybees only sting in defense. The sting is barbed and is, along with the venom sac, modified so it stays in the victim. The bee dies afterwards, but the sting can continue to deliver venom. There is about 0.1 mg venom in one bee sting, and in order for the effect of the venom to be dangerous for an adult human, it probably takes 2000-3000 simultaneous stings. Cases of deaths after bee stings are practically alwa…

Honeybees

Latin: Apis Mellifica The bee – or honeybee – is probably one of the most well-known insects in Denmark. It also goes by its Latin name Apis Mellifica and is both loved for its ability to pollinate flowers and produce honey, but also feared for its hurtful sting. The bee belongs to a very small group of insects, which man has managed to turn into a kind of domestic animal. And more than 5,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians were some of the firs…

The honey bee

…Honey bee Almost all honey bees, Apis mellifica, live as livestock in designated hives, however, wild swarms can settle and adapt in cavity walls, chimneys or hollow trees….

Life cycle

Fig. 45. A landing honey bee. (Wilson) A honey bee family may comprise more than 50,000 individuals. In each family, there is only one egg-laying queen. The workers collect food, nectar and pollen, and inside the nest they build honeycombs, which consist of two layers of hexagonal cells. Some of the cells contain the bees’ larvae. Other cells are used to store honey or pollen. The entire honey bee family overwinter. During the winter, the bees ge…

Mining bees

…of bee, but they live, in the ground. The most known bee in Denmark is the honeybee, which lives in beehives in trees or similar high locations. Mining bees also belong to a broader term, namely solitary bees. Lone bees can live together, but they can just as well live on their own, which of course is very different from what is usually understood by bees that live in hives. Appearance As there are so many different species of mining bees in Denma…

Mason bee

…tin: Osmia bicornis) Mason bee, Osmia bicornis This is one of the solitary bees in which the nest is built of mud, in a wide variety of sites. On occasions the nest may be constructed indoors, possibly behind panelling, in furniture or even in a key-hole, provided there is constant access to the outside world. Apart from the fact that it may sometimes block a lock with mud this is a completely harmless species. Mason bee cells with pollen and larv…

Bumble bees

Bumblebee, tree bumblebee Unlike the honey bees, in which the whole colony survives the winter, a bumble bee colony only lasts for a single season. This means that all the workers die in the autumn, so that only a few young mated queens survive and spend the winter in hibernation. The bumble bees seen in March flying low over the ground are usually these young queens, just emerged from their winter quarters, and now searching for suitable places…

Bumblebee

…per, the fate of the bumble bees constitutes a tragic tale. For unlike the honeybees, whose entire community overwinters through the cold winter months, the bumble bee communities are only annuals. This means that entire communities of bumble bees die in late fall when they have served their duty. The survival of the genus then rests solely on the shoulders of a few young queens from each nest. After the queens have mated, they go to sleep. After…

Aphomia sociella

…l, e.g. the wax cells and their con- tent of nectar and pollen in a bumble bee colony, but they may also attack the bee larvae. When fully grown the moth larvae leave the nest in a body and in a sheltered spot nearby they then spin a communal cocoon, which may contain hundreds of pupae. The buttery yellow larvae of the bee moth crawl on the litter’s common web of pupa cocoons. They have gnawed their way into a white foam sheet These are commonly f…

Drone fly larva

…its way to the Bible where Samson, after having killed a lion, finds both bees and honey in the mouth of the rotting carcase. There are also numerous references to this phenomenon in Greek and Roman literature. The myth continued right up to modern times and the final explanation, namely that it referred to hoverflies, not bees, did not come until the 1880s. The rat tail larvae that find their way into the house are quite harmless, and the best t…

Bees

…Bee Solitary bees (p. 180), honey bees and bumblebees (p. 179) can all sting. The sting of a small solitary bee is normally very mild, but a bumblebee sting may be very painful. On the other hand, it is very unusual for bumblebees to sting and in fact they have to be very severely provoked before they will do so. Honey bees will attack and sting if their hive is threatened, or of course if they are picked up….

Davies’s Colletes

…cm long and it is filled with a mixture of pollen and nectar. When it has been completed the bee lays an egg in it, seals it with a lid and starts on the next cell in the series. Normally there are 2-8 cells in each tunnel. The larvae which hatch from the eggs feed on the stored food, overwinter in the cell, pupate in the following spring and emerge as adult bees, usually in early July. In normal circumstances the damage done by these bees is fai…

The common black ant

…th honey and borax can also be effective, but due to the risk of poisoning bees these may only be used indoors. Take one part water to four parts honey and mix well. To 0.5 dl of this mixture, add a teaspoon of borax. It is important that the borax is properly dissolved. You can warm the mixture by shaking it under a hot tap to help that process on its way. Common black ant, worker The bait must be set up somewhere that it does not bother having a…

Prevention and control

…ring clover meadows or among other flowers that the bees are attracted to. Honeybees are useful animals. Not only because they collect honey, but especially because they pollinate many important crops. However, it is legal – and reasonable – to fight colonies that have settled in unacceptable parts of a house and no beekeeper wants to collect it. A thorough, repeated dusting of the hive entrance with an insect powder will quickly kill the colony….

Index

…y Bats droppings Bed bug faeces Bed mites Beech marten faeces scent tracks Bees Beetles Bird fleas Biscuit beetle Biting housefly Biting lice Black rat droppings Black vine-weevil Blattel/a germanica Blatta orientalis Blattodea Blowflies Body louse Bombus hypnorum Bombus lapidarius Booklice , Bostrychid beetles Bostrychider Bostrychoplites cornutus Brown dog tick Brown house moth Brown rat droppings Brown-banded cockroach Bumble bees Butterflies C…

Bees

…(Latin: Superfamily Apoidea) Bee – this is a honey bee…

Index

…edgehog flea Hepatities Hexicid Hippoboscidae Hirudinea Hirudo medicinalis Honey bee Hornets Horse fly Horse leech Hoyers medium Itch mites Ivomec veto Ixodes ricinus Ixokan Killer bees Kissing bug Klofenotan Kvassia Larder beetle larvae hair Lepidoglyphus destructor Lepidoptera Light traps Linognathus setosus Listrophorus gibbus Louse Louse flies Lyctocoris campestris Lymantria dispar Maladan Malaria Medicinal leech Methopren Midges Mites Monomor…

Solitary bees

…ually small, grayish or dark species. Most look like small versions of the honeybee. They are called solitary bees because they do not live in the colonies. Each female bee builds its own nest, lay eggs and gather food for the larvae by herself. Depending on the species, solitary bees can build nests in the ground, in plant stems, in holes in walls or in woodwork, and the nests can be built from different materials such as clay or plant parts. Whe…

Wasps

…oblem for wasps (hornets) in these latitudes is that they do not, like the honey bees, store food for the cold months, and then must start fresh every spring. Wasps rarely occur as pests and in most cases you can live harmoniously as neighbour to a wasp’s nest. But if you are allergic to their stings or they appear in large numbers in a nursery, or if there simply are so many that it becomes really annoying, it is of course reasonable enough to fi…

Detection

…les. Inside the hollow stick, there was another stick which was covered in honey. The fleas then stuck to the honey-covered stick. Today, it is still o you can buy flea traps. It is basically a light source placed on the floor and the fleas jump onto a tray with adhesive paper. By examination of the adhesive paper, it is possible get an idea if there is a need for flea control, or if control of a flea control treatment has worked satisfactorily. S…

Hornet stings

…touched. As for the seriousness of the stings, it is the same as with the honey bee, and you should take the same precautions if stung. However, there is no stinger to remove. Because of its size and deep humming sound, the European hornet can seem threatening. Many feel that getting stung by this hornet equals certain death. However, it is not more venomous than its smaller relatives, but, naturally, it holds more venom. A rule of thumb is that…

The prune mite

…folds in dried fruit, especially prunes and figs. It can also be found in honey bee hives. Its development takes place over a number of phases, as with the other mites. First, eggs that are attached to the substrate with a stem. Next, a six-legged larval phase, two or three 8-legged nymphal stages and finally adult males and females. Generation time is 9 days during optimal conditions at 25 ° C and 85% relative humidity. Prune mite A female mite…

Bees, wasps and ants

…nd ants belong to the group of insects known as hymenoptera (Hymenoptera). Honey bee Many hymenoptera have sucking mouth parts, a tube with which they can drink liquid such as nectar. In addition, their mandibles are used to bite and chew, and for many of the hymenoptera, it is an important tool when they build their nests. Most hymenoptera are good fliers. They have two pairs of relatively short and narrow, clear wings, and the hind wings are sma…

Bumblebees

…ually big, strong and furry bumblebees of the genus Bombus. In contrast to honey bees bumble bee colonies only live one season. In the autumn all the workers and the old queen die. There are some young queens who – after having mated – goes into hibernation and thereby saving the family through the cold period. Early the next spring, they come out and find suitable places to establish new colonies. Most bumble bees construct their nests in the gro…

Frequency

…0 European adder (Lat. Vipera berus) 0 0 1 0 Honey bee 0 1 0 Bumblebee 0 1 0 Horse-flies 1 0 Hornets 0 1 0 0 0 Cat fleas 0 1 0 0 Thrips 0 1 0 0 0 The crab louse 0 0 0 0 0 1 Bird mites 0 0 0 1 0 Hedgehog fleas 0 0 0 1 0 0 Head louse (Lat. Pediculus humanus capitis) 0 1 0 0 …

Wasps

…asps are actually females with undeveloped reproductive organs. Unlike the honey bee, wasps have not developed methods of storing food for the winter, and in temperate regions their colonies only last for one season. Each colony starts to break up in the autumn, and the workers die of cold. However, before this happens new queens and males develop and these swarm out of the colony to mate. The males die soon after mating, but the young, fertilised…