Application Essay: Bees

Bees are one of the most structured, civilized and organized species of insects. The European honeybee, also known as the honeybee and Apis mellifera is the largest bee specie with worldwide distribution. Originally from Europe, Africa and parts of Asia, was introduced in America and Oceania. It was classified by Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. Thereafter taxonomists described many geographical varieties or subspecies that currently exceed the 30 races” (Michener, 251). The hive is a super organism. This super-organism behaves with synergy, which is the effect produced by the interaction between components of a system that makes the whole is more than the sum of different parts. Bees are social insects with three different types of individuals or castes in the colony. Each caste has its particular function and develops a differentiated labor in the colony. Each caste has a development cycle time or owns different for each species and breeds in various types of cells. The castes are divided as Queen Bee, Working bee, and Drone Bee (Ribière, 125).

The queen bee is the only fertile female in the hive. She is the mother of all workers and drones of the colony. Moreover, there was a time when we used the word "mother" rather than queen. The name "Queen" suggests, wrongly, that there is a relationship of authority-sided Queen / subject. In fact the Queen is not master of everything and talk with other females (workers) of the complex based on chemical messages pheromone. The queen bee depends on the weather usually starts to lay eggs in the spring. This activity is determined by the information it receives from the outside (e.g. flow of nectar, pollen collection, day length, temperature, etc.). The queen is the only fertile female and deposit eggs from which all other bees are born. The queen bee leaves the hive, except during mating flights, or as a swarm to lead a new colony. The queen lays her eggs in the combs of hexagonal cells was that the employees built. “The egg after the third day is converted in a small larva which is fed by nurse bees. Queens are not addressed in the typical horizontal cells of the honeycomb, but their cells are built to be bigger and law. On the other hand, feed on pollen and larvae of workers, but with royal jelly. It is shown that this special power that makes a female ...