ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Apitoxin, Waggle Dance, Propolis
22 Jan 2019
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Unit 1: introduction to honey bees and beekeeping. By the end of this unit, you should be able to: describe what honey bees are, explain why honey bees are important. Bees and humans: humans can learn and benefit from both studying and keeping bees, bees are a study subject that can then be used in research to learn about ourselves and nature. They can also provide economic benefits to humans. Such as hive products and increased production of agricultural crops through their pollinating services. Human benefits of bees: honey bees are excellent biological study subjects, social animals to study. They are studied to teach us about ourselves: we compare ourselves to bees. Characteristics of human interest i. e. aggressive behaviour, hormone regulation, alcoholism, immunity : architecture masters. These combs are able to withstand heavy loads and rear bees: dance language. Communication to sister workers of where food is located via a "waggle dance"
