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By D Heil Bees Are Important When honeybees collect nectar from flowers, they are also providing an important service to agriculture. Honeybees have hairs on their bodies, which pollen grains adhere to when the bee lands on a flower. At the next flower, pollen detaches, and more new pollen adheres to the bee. This exchange of pollen between flowers is how pollination happens in the plant world. Pollination is vital to agriculture. 33% of our food comes from plants that depend on pollination. Almonds, for example, depend almost exclusively upon the honeybee for pollination that results in the nuts we eat. Swarming Swarming is how honey bee colonies reproduce. In the process two (or three, or four) colonies are created in place of the original swarming colony. New honey bee colonies are formed when a queen bee senses that the hive is becoming overcrowded (a sign of past success of that colony). The queen decides to leaves the colony and will take approximately half the worker bees with her, in a “swarm”. The first swarm is called the prime swarm. This prime swarm includes the old queen who will have been laying eggs for the colony for the prior 1-3 seasons. Swarming usually happens in the spring. However, swarms can happen at any point during the producing season and are triggered by conditions inside the hive. Meanwhile, back in the old hive, the remaining bees will sense the loss of the queen by “smelling” the absence of her queen pheremones. This absence will trigger the bees to raise a new queen by feeding a number very young larvae royal jelly. Though there is generally only one queen in a hive at any given time, the bees will try to raise more than one queen for redundancy and to ensure that at least one survives. The first queen to emerge from her cell will seek out and kill the other queens before they can emerge. Sometimes, a successful hive will cast off a succession of swarms one after the other. The bees that departed in the swarm will seek out a branch or other outcropping while they look for a new home. Swarms are usually not aggressive at this stage of their life cycle. The swarm is more interested in finding a new nesting spot. This does not mean that bee swarms will not attack if they perceive a threat; however, most bees only attack in response to intrusions against their hive, and swarming bees have no hive. During this time, the swarm will send out scout bees to look for a suitable location for a new hive. They will seek close places first, so you will see them buzzing around the eaves of your house, looking for a damaged soffit vent cover that will allow them to build a new home in your roof. You do not want bees nesting in your roof or walls. If you have them in the structure of your house, and they have been there for more than a few weeks, you should remove the comb from the structure. Beekeepers can “cut out” the hive from the wall and remove the comb. Beekeepers will charge for this service, as it is difficult for everyone involved. If you do not remove the comb and instead just kill the bees with pesticide or seal up the egress, the dead bees and honey and wax will become a food source for rodents and vermin. Exterminators wont tell you this because customers with inexplicable vermin problems keep them in business. If you have a swarm on your property, you should contact a local beekeeper to effect its removal. Many beekeepers will perform this service for a very nominal fee. If you call a beekeeper: - you avoid use of dangerous pesticides; - you get rid of your bees; and - the beekeeper gains a potential new colony with which to produce honey and nuts and the foods we all enjoy Author is a fourth generation beekeeper who is an advocate for apiculture and its important role in the safeguarding of our food supply. Find a beekeeper in your area at: http://www.honeyrunapiaries.com/bee_removal.phtml For removal in the Southern Nevada area: http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/wan/290035887.html Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=D_Heil http://EzineArticles.com/?The-411-On-Honeybee-Reproductive-Swarming—What-Is-It?-And-What-To-Do&id=480302 prescription phentermine 37.5 buy phentermine from canada phentermine foreign pharmacy phentermine from online pharmacy