Unknow bee questions...

Started by TerraJoy, May 31, 2011, 07:53:42 PM

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TerraJoy

What are some mysteries within the bee world that scientist and/or beekeepers can not explain?

Example: How do newborn bees know what their first job is?

Thanks!

iddee

Why do they washboard?

Why does smoke calm them?

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

gardeningfireman

How do bees know when the water content of honey is below 20 percent?

AllenF

Where to start?    There are just so many.   Bees are just so complex.   From the different ways the communicate to the ways a hive "decides" something as a whole or just all the bee pheromones.

sc-bee

Never heard exactly why the Royal Jelly makes a worker larvae a queen???
John 3:16

schawee

WHY THEY  PICK THIS 2 DAY LARVE AND NOT THAT 2 DAY LARVE ?
BEEKEEPER OF THE SWAMP

Grid

How the drones and virgin queens know where the Drone Congregation Areas are.

VolunteerK9

Thats easy...they Google everything  :-D

Larry Bees