Monday, May 24, 2010

How do we obtain bee pollen and royal jelly from bees?

Beekeepers get royal jelly by tricking the bees into making 50 or more queens. This causes the bees to make a huge quantity of royal jelly that is added to the queen cells. The beekeeper then removes the larva and harvests the royal jelly.





The pollen is collected by adding a pollen trap which knocks the pollen off the bees as the enter the hive.

How do we obtain bee pollen and royal jelly from bees?
Royal jelly is a substance that bees produce. Female bees are diploid, resulting from fertilised eggs, and most of these become workers. in contrast, male bees are haploid, resulting from unfertilised eggs, and they become drones. However, of the female bees, at least one tends to be fed a substance called royal jelly, which is basically a substance that helps it grow into a queen bee. This substance is made by the other bees in the hive, I'm not sure how, but it is a naturally occurring substance somewhere in the hive.





I'm not sure what bee pollen is exactly, let alone how we extract it from bees.
Reply:Stick your head in a bees nest and find out.
Reply:just by sqeezing!


No comments:

Post a Comment