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    The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects
    The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects
    The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects
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    The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects

    By Molly Davidson

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    What Are Bees?
    Facts About Bees
    Options for treating bee stings
    The Life Cycle of a Bee
    Why Are Bees So Important to Humans?
    Types of Bees
    Carpenter bees
    Africanized honey bees
    Bumble Bees
    Yellow Jackets
    The Bee Hive
    The Honey Bee Colony
    The Royal Queen
    Bee Keeping
    Tips for Preventing Attacks
    Harvesting Honey
    What is Pollen and Pollination?
    Flowers That Attract Bees
    All about Wasps
    What is a wasp?
    What kinds of wasps are there?
    The history of wasps and humans
    Yellow jacket
    Hornet
    Fig wasp
    A little more on wasps
    All about Butterfies
    Butterflies Beautiful Insects
    Anatomy of a Butterfly
    Life Cycle of a Butterfly
    Butterflies Habitat
    What Do Butterflies Eat?
    Can Butterflies Communicate?
    Butterflies and Pollination
    Monarch Butterfly and Migration
    Butterfly Species
    Butterfly Meanings in Different Cultures
    Butterfly Facts
    A little more on butterflies
    Ladybugs
    What are ladybugs?
    Anatomy of a ladybug
    Ladybug romance
    How to spot different types of ladybugs
    Are ladybugs helpful?
    Why do ladybugs smell when they are crushed?
    How to get rid of ladybugs
    How did the humble ladybug get her name?
    Ladybugs in the farming field
    Ladybugs and tree diseases of the forest
    Ladybugs around the globe and in your backyard
    Seasons for ladybugs
    A little more on ladybugs
    Classification of the scorpion
    Description of a scorpion
    The behavior of the scorpions,
    Habitats of the scorpions
    Biology of the scorpion
    Scorpion Body Parts
    Parts of the body
    Scorpion Anatomy
    Reproduction
    Food habits of the scorpions
    Some deadly species of scorpions
    Scorpions and humans
    Myths and stories about scorpions
    Introduction to Spiders
    10 Facts About Spiders
    Spider Eggs
    Spider Anatomy
    Spider Habitat
    Spider Silk
    Spider Webs - For Catching Prey
    Spider Senses
    Spider Bites
    Types of Spiders
    Spider Identification
    Black Widow Spiders
    Crab Spider
    Baby Spiders
    Brown Recluse Spiders
    Funnel Spider
    Tarantula Spiders
    Jumping Spiders
    World’s Most Poisonous
    Conclusion
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    Introduction

    There are more insects on this planet than anything else. They are so tiny, and do not take up much space. Let's learn about a few of the most common insects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateFeb 28, 2016
    ISBN9781311871930
    The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects

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      The GIANT (Yet Tiny) Book on Insects - Molly Davidson

      Introduction

      There are more insects on this planet than anything else. They are so tiny, and do not take up much space. Let's learn about a few of the most common insects.

      What Are Bees?

      Bees are referred to as flying insects, closely related to ants and wasps. There are over 19,000 known species of bees. Bees are made up of three body parts, the head, thorax, and abdomen. The head is at the top of the body containing:

      The antenna.

      Two compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses.

      Three other eyes called simple eyes or O eyes.

      The bee also has a mouth! The bees’ mouth is made up of:

      1. The paired mandibles, like our jaw.

      2. The glassa, like our tongue..

      3. The labrum and maxillae, which are like our lips, support the proboscis, or tube for collecting nectar!

      The thorax is the smaller middle section of the body containing:

      1. Three pair of legs with hooks on the ends so that they may easily cling on to objects.

      2. Four clear wings, they flap their wings up to 11,400 times a minute and that is where the buzzing sound comes from!

      The abdomen is the lower and largest part of the body that has a nectar pouch and stomach the end of the abdomen contains the stinger! Ouch!

      Facts About Bees

      1. A honey bee is not born knowing how to make honey, they are taught by more experienced bees.

      2. A honey bee will make only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

      3. Are the only insects that produce food eaten by humans.

      4. Honey bees must consume 16-18 pounds of honey to make each pound of beeswax.

      5. Bees have been around 30 million years.

      6. Over 1000 bee stings are considered to be fatal.

      7. Honey bees are not native to the Americas.

      8. Bees are cold blooded.

      9. Bacteria cannot grow in honey because of the natural preservatives.

      10. Bears prefer to eat the bee larvae rather than the honey.

      11. Bees communicate through smells and dances.

      12. Bees can fly up to 15 miles per hour.

      13. A hive will fly almost 100,000 miles to collect 1kg of honey.

      14. It would only take one ounce of honey to feed a bee and if possible give them enough energy to fly all the way around the world.

      Options for treating bee stings

      After a sting the first step is always to remove the stinger and wash the site. Make sure an allergic reaction that requires emergency services is not happening. The next step is up to you, there are many methods to treating a bee or wasp sting to minimize the pain.

      1. Apply ice for 20 minutes.

      2. Apply toothpaste for 15 minutes.

      3. Apply wet tobacco for 15 minutes.

      4. Make a paste out of baking soda, vinegar and meat tenderizer, apply for 20 minutes.

      5. Apply calamine lotion

      6. Apply hydrocortisone cream.

      7. Apply honey for 30 minutes.

      8. Rub a stick across the site.

      Some of the natural remedies to treat bee stings might sound silly but they have been proven to at least slightly reduce the symptoms of a sting.

      Bees are amazing, intelligent, and beneficial insects to the world. They are beautiful and serve many purposes, our way of life would be much different if it wasn’t for the tiny insects that we call bees. Remember, that they do us more good than they do harm and are a beautiful part of nature that we get to enjoy in more ways than one!

      The Life Cycle of a Bee

      There are four different stages of a bees’ life cycle.

      1. Egg

      2. Larvae

      3. Pupa

      4. Adult

      Stage 1: The queen lays soft white eggs inside the comb. The egg stays an egg for 3 days.

      Stage 2: On the third day, the larvae turns into pupa. It now has eyes, wings, and legs.

      Stage 3: This is the final stage in a bees’ metamorphosis. It is now fully grown. The bee will chew its way out of the cell. It becomes an adult on days 16-24.

      After the adult bee emerges from the cell it has a specific job for its age throughout its life until death.

      Days:

      1-2 the bee will clean the cells and keep the brood nest warm.

      3-5 the bee will feed the older larvae honey and pollen.

      6-11the bee will feed the young larvae with royal jelly.

      12-16 the bee will produce wax and construct comb, as well as ripen honey.

      16-20 the bee will guard the hive entrance and help circulate air to the hive.

      21-death the bee will forage for nectar, pollen, propolis, and water.

      The life of a bee is very hard work!

      Why Are Bees So Important to Humans?

      Bees are important to humans because of pollination. Our agriculture depends on honey bees for this. 80% of all insect pollination is done by honey bees. Without this pollination we would have a substantial decrease in the amount of fruits and vegetables being grown. Bees can visit more than 2 million flowers a year, and collect 66 pounds of pollen, per year, per hive, that is a lot of pollen!

      Types of Bees

      There are about 25,000 species of bees in the world. These 25,000 species can be divided into over 400 types of bees, belonging to 9 families, all under the same super family-‘Apoidea’. I will share a few details about the most common types of bees that humans are familiar with.

      Carpenter bees

      Carpenter bees are large bees found throughout the world. There are 500 species of carpenter bees. Their name comes from the fact that they all build their nests in burrows inside of wood! They make their nests by vibrating their mandibles against the wood, resulting in tunnels. They are likely to live alone or, occasionally in a small group of females. The females will split up the work load having specific chores quite like the honey bee! Carpenter bees can be pollinators to open faced flowers although they are also known to steal nectar, by slitting the side of the sides of the flowers.

      Stealing the nectar, means that they are not pollenating at all by their eating. Carpenter bees can be mistaken for bumblebees because they are similar in size and color. The way to tell the difference in carpenter bees and bumble bees is that carpenter bees have a shiny abdomen and bumble bees have a hairy abdomen. Male carpenters sometimes have a yellow or white face, while

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