Week 9

Week 9, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist. The answer to Friday's question is bees have five eyes--two compound eyes and three tiny ocelli eyes. Do you know what the four stages of bee development? Tune in tomorrow for the answer.




















Week 9, day 2, Rubber Boot Journalist.  The answer to yesterday's question is the four stages of bee development are egg, larvae, pupae and adult bee. Do you know what bees use their honeycomb for?
 









Week 9, day 3, Rubber Boot Journalist. The answer to yesterday's question is bees use the honeycomb for to raise their babies in, and to store nectar, honey, pollen and water. Did you know bees are the only insect in the world that make food that humans can eat?

 

Week 9, day 4, Rubber Boot Journalist. Do you know how long bees have been in existence? Tune in tomorrow for the answer.
 













Week 9, day 5, Rubber Boot Journalist was racing around taking photos and meeting deadlines and didn't make it posting yesterday. Was covering a tornado! For those of you not on the west coast this is big news here. We rarely see them. Covered on a couple of years ago that damaged some nut orchards just like this one did. and the answer to yesterday's question is honeybees have been in existence for 30 million years.

Week 8

Week 8, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist.Bees have two stomachs, one stomach for eating.  Do you know what the other stomach is for?  Tune in tomorrow for the answer.

Week 8, day 2, Rubber Boot Journalist. The answer to yesterday's question is the second stomach is a special stomach for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive. Do you know what the male bees in the hive are called?

Week 8, day 3, Rubber Boot Journalist.  The answer to yesterday's question is male bees are called drones.  Do you know what their job is?

Week 8, day 4, Rubber Boot Journalist. The answer to yesterday's question is the male bee's job is to  find a queen to mate with. Male bees fly out and meet in special drone congregation areas where they hope to meet a queen. Male drone bees don't have a stinger. Do you know what happens to a worker bee if she uses her stinger? Find out tomorrow.

Week 8, day 5, Rubber Boot Journalist.  The answer to yesterday's question is the worker bee dies if she uses her stinger.  Did you know how many eyes bees have?  Tune in Monday for the answer.

Week 7, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist more than 1.2 million bee hives are required each year to pollinate California’s 550,000 bearing acres of almonds.  There are three kinds of bees in a hive.  Do you know what they are?  Tune in tomorrow to find out.




Week 7, day 2, Rubber Boot Journalist the answer to yesterday's question is queen, worker and drone bees.  Do you know how many eggs a queen bee lays every day?

Week 7, day 3,4,5, Rubber Boot Journalist was out of the office.  The answer to how eggs a queen bee lays every day is between 1500 and 2000.  Isn't that amazing?

Week 6

Week 6, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist over 70 percent of California almonds are sold overseas. Do you know almonds used to be harvested before they had machines?










Week 6, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist the answer to yesterday's question is they used poles and knocked them to the ground. California is the world’s largest producer of almonds. Do you know why?











Week 6, day 2, Rubber Boot Journalist, answer to yesterday's question is California has an ideal mild climate, rich soil and lots of sunshine all ideal for growing almonds. Do you know what doubles are in almonds?






Week 6, day 3, Rubber Boot Journalist answer to yesterday's question doubles are two kernels developing in one shell. Did you know how many almond growers there are in California?













Week 6, day 5, Rubber Boot Journalist there are more than 6000 almond growers in California. Do you know how many bee hives are needed each year to pollinate all the almonds in California? Tune in Monday to find out.