Important Structures

Knowledge Base Categories

• Ways to Obtain Bees
  • Packages
• Top Bar Hives
• Social Structure
  • Temporal Polyethism
  • Superorganism
    • Thermoregulation
    • Respiration
    • Reproduction
  • Eusocial
  • Castes
    • Worker
    • Queen
    • Drone
• Reproduction
• Questions
• Queenless Colony
• Pheremones
• Parasites
  • Varroa mites
  • Tracheal mites
  • Nosema
• Nosema
• Lifecycle
• Larvae
• Integrated Pest Management
  • Physical Control
  • Cultural Control
  • Chemical Control
• Installing and Managing Your Colony
• Inspecting the Colony
• Honey Bee Species
  • Races
    • Russian
    • Cordovan
    • Buckfast
  • Italian (Apis mellifera ligustica)
  • Giant Honey Bee – Apis Dorsata
  • German (A. m. mellifera)
  • European Honey Bee – Apis mellifera
  • Caucasian (A. m. caucasica)
  • Carniolan (A. m. carnica)
  • Asian Honey Bee – Apis cerana
    • Asian Honey Bee (A. c. nuluensis)
  • African (A. m. scutellate)
• Honey Bee Biology
  • Sex Determination – Haplodiploidy
  • Nest
• Honey
• Hive Stands
• Hive
  • Other Hive Equipment
  • Hive Types
    • Langstroth
  • Covers
  • Bodies
• Foragers
• Diseases
  • Viruses
  • Fungus
• Disease/Pest
  • Pathogen Invasion
  • Immunity
  • Hive Pests
    • Small hive beetle (SHB)
  • Brood Pathogens
    • Sacbrood
    • European Foulbrood (EFB)
    • Chalkbrood
    • American foulbrood (AFB)
• Communication
  • Pheromones
  • Dance
• Climate Control
• Calendar
• brood pattern
• Beekeeping Tools
  • Smoker
• Beekeeping Equipment
  • Useful
  • Essential
• Beekeepers
  • Randy Oliver
• Bee Products
• Bee Morphology
  • Thorax
  • Head
  • Abdomen
• Apiary
• Anatomy of the Hive
• Airflow