Sunday, October 12, 2014

Bees Exsistance in the Tree

The apple tree is a home for all different kinds of little critters. One evening while I was observing I was walking around my tree when I herd a buzzing sound. There were there yellow and blue shades flying around apples that had holes. I never thought bees would be attracted to fruit. I always thought that flowers were the main thing that the bees liked. I started wondering if the apples or at least the leaves had some sort of pollen? What does the bee get from the apple? Do bees only go for the apples that have a hole? To get my answers I started doing some issues and I ran cross this website that has a lot of information about bees. http://www.honeybeesuite.com/do-honey-bees-eat-fruit/ Turns out that bees don't really eat the apple but instead they suck all of the juice from fruits such as apples, cherries, and plums. Flowers attract the bees by their radiant colors and the pollen the bees can smell, so as for the apples they give off a sweet aroma that brings the bees in. As for bees being able to drill some sort of hole into the fruit the answer isn't decided yet. There has been a lot of studies to prove this theory. While others say yes a bee can the rest say no. In my opinion I think they can't as well because the bees I've seen would be on the apples that had holes already. Overall though I believe that the bees are the only ones that are being benefit from this because what can apple tree want from a bee. The apples are the desserts for the  buzzing yellow and black speckles.
Field Notes 9/30/14

3 comments:

  1. I've heard bees in my tree but I didn't know they drank my apples. You taught me something.

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  2. Nice picture :) . I didn't know that bees drink the juice from apples. I think it's pretty weird but now that you mentioned it I have seen bees around my fruit.

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  3. Very informative. I learned something new about bees. I am sure there are other things that benefit from the apples though. What made the holes before the bees got there?

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