[Today’s run: 5 miles – Schaffer’s Chapel]<\/p>\n
A bee starts off as a larva.\u00a0 It is fed, then capped off.\u00a0 Kind of like when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.\u00a0 Then the bee becomes a bee.<\/p>\n
At first the bee’s job is to take care of the nursery and the other new bees and larva.\u00a0 Some bees also get to attend to the needs of the queen.\u00a0 All of this happens in the brood area of the hive.<\/p>\n
The bee then graduates to taking care of the honey storage.\u00a0 After that it may become involved with hive security, comb building and hive maintenance (plugging holes, etc.)<\/p>\n
Finally the bee gets to start flying out to look for honey and water.\u00a0 It flies out and follows the directions of other bees.\u00a0 It may then branch off and try to find its own nectar and pollen sources.\u00a0 It brings back pollen\/nectar and makes reports to the other fliers.<\/p>\n
After a certain amount of flying the bees wings get eroded and it cannot fly very well.\u00a0 It keeps going out but has a harder and harder time getting airborne.\u00a0 Eventually the bee goes away from the hive but cannot fly back.\u00a0 It may start to walk back, but won’t make it back.<\/p>\n
So bees eventually fly out and not come back.\u00a0 Sounds like kind of a sad story to me.\u00a0\u00a0 But maybe the bees don’t mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Today’s run: 5 miles – Schaffer’s Chapel] A bee starts off as a larva.\u00a0 It is fed, then capped off.\u00a0 Kind of like when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.\u00a0 Then the bee becomes a bee. At first the bee’s job is to take care of the nursery and the other new bees and larva.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}