Cosmas Alfred Butele

A Review of Honeybee Biodiversity, Behaviour and Management Cosmas Alfred Butele

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Biology - Zoology, grade: A, Atlantic International University (School of Science and Engineering), course: Master of Science (Applied Entomology), language: English, comment: Dear Butele: Excelent essay. "It's a big mistake also because, as I suggested earlier, educated people at the beginning of XXI century should be rationally founded confidence in the results of science, and rationally founded that confidence can only come from an adequate idea of ??scientific rationality, otherwise the trust is based only on the authority of science, and trust only authority is something that violates the rational and autonomous quality of the people". Olivé (2008, p. 77). Best regards, Dr ... Advisor. Atlantic International University. , abstract: Bees evolved in specific areas of the world long ago, before they spread to become globally as they are today (Tables 1 and II), according to Kugonza (2009). As they spread, they became adapted to the local ecological conditions of the different areas, changing in morphology and behaviour to fit within the requirements of the ecosystem, giving rise to a wide bee biodiversity of bee species and races we see today. Bees are classified under Animal Kingdom, Phylum Arthropoda. They belong to Class Insecta, which is divided into 29 Orders. Bees belong to the order Hymenoptera, which has three Super families, namely: Apoidea (bees), Formicoidea (ants) and Vespoidea (wasps). There are around 30,000 named species of bees (Apoidea). Apoidea is further divided into several Families, namely Apidae (social bees), colletidae, Andrenidae, Halictidae, Melittidae, Megachilidae, and Anthophoridae. Most of the Families have solitary individuals: each female bee makes her own nest, lays a single egg and provides food for the single larva that develops. However, a high level of social development is shown by the species in Apidae where the individuals live together in a permanent, large colony, headed by