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Their survival across million years is due to their perfect organization where every individual or groups of the society fulfills a function, and to the utilization of the elements that nature offers in order to let their system remains stable during so much time.

The following is some important information:

Their natural habitat was always the holes of the trees, that is why the beehives created by the man are made of wood for simplicity and to respect the tastes and traditions.

Their food is composed by the energetic contribution of the honey, and the proteins of the pollen.

A beehive is formed by three castes, a queen, working bees and drones.

The queen is the mother of all the members of the family, if she places male eggs, a drone will be born and if it is a female egg, a working bee will be born.

The population suffers big changes across the year: at the beggining of the spring a beehive can manage to have 5.000 bees to reach the 100.000 in December. When the queen perceives the beggining of the spring with the revenue of nectar and pollen , she begins her position attitude placing up to 1.500 eggs per day. In a period of 5 years the queen will put a whole of 1.000.000 of eggs.

The queen has the aptitude to determine the sex of the egg to put. If the queen puts an egg without fertilizing, she will will procreate drones. If she puts fertilized eggs they will be born as working bees or eventually queens.

The queen forms a pair only in a flight called wedding flight, trying to fly as high as possible in order to be followed only by the strongest drones and assures the best ones of the species.

The drone, which has the only function of reproduction, dies after forming a pair because the queen takes off his reproductive organs as soon as they separate each other.

The drone, as he does not have a sting, neither tong nor back developed legs cannot defend the beehive, gather neither nectar nor pollen. His other function, is secondary but is the warming of the baby.

The capacity of the queen as the boss of the beehive is largely due to the contribution of the Royal Jelly as incomparable food. In a beehive the last individual to dying is the queen.

The wetnurse bee, newborn baby, fulfills two important functions: to feed and serve the queen forming his retinue, and the maintenance of the baby.

As the bee grows in days of life, it changes functions and not all the bees do the same activities. Producers of waxes, propolis producers, guardians, explorers, nectar collectors, pollen collectors, and cleaners.

The working bees do the following tasks: to clean cells, to ventilate, to feed and to serve the queen, operculate cells, protect and feed the babies, to receive and to store pollen, to receive and to store nectar, to receive and to locate propolis, to produce waxes, to construct honeycombs, to repair water incomes, air or cold, to raise the temperature of the beehive, to collect propolis.

Approximately 10.000 bees are equivalent to 1 Kg of weight.

1 Liter of honey is equivalent to 1,4 Kg because its density is 1,40 / 1,42.

The bees consume till 7 Kg of honey to produce 1 Kg of wax.

A honey collector bee flies up to 3 Km in search of nectar to a normal speed of 24 Km per hour and to a maximum speed of 40 Km per hour, these speeds depend on the reigning wind.

A bee visits 45 flowers in every journey and to produce 1 Kg of honey, 60.000 bees would visit 3.000.000 of flowers. In the climax of the "honey season" that quantity of bees would take every day 5 Kg of nectar to the beehive that would be transformed into 1 Kg of honey.

The beehive always hold in its interior a temperature of 36° C wether it is cold winter with frosts or in the warmest summer. In winter they form the "winter skittle", where the bees organized themselves placing the older ones externally, and the younger ones with the queen in the center. In summer the beehives have beards of bees hanging at the opening and the bees that are in the interior flutter constantly to regulate the temperature.

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