question: How do bees survive if we keep taking honey from them?
comment: Think about honey as rent, we don't take all of it, just like a landlord wont nick all of your money if you have been a good tenant,because they want you to rent in the future.
passages: By contriving for bee swarms to nest in human-made hives, people have been able to semidomesticate the insects and harvest excess honey. In the hive or in a wild nest, the three types of bees are:
  
  BULLET::::- a single female queen bee
  
  BULLET::::- a seasonally variable number of male drone bees to fertilize new queens
  
  BULLET::::- 20,000 to 40,000 female worker bees
   Diseases like Nosema ceranae impact the digestive tract of the bees. This could lead to starvation even in the presence of food sources.
  
  Section::::Causes.:Transportation.
  
  Millions of bees are transported each year to California and other parts of the USA to pollinate crops such as almonds.
   BULLET::::- Beeswax
  
  BULLET::::- Biosecurity
  
  BULLET::::- Castoreum, a product used by medieval beekeepers to increase honey production
  
  BULLET::::- Honey
  
  BULLET::::- List of crop plants pollinated by bees
  
  BULLET::::- "More Than Honey"—a 2012 Swiss documentary film on the current state of honey bees and beekeeping
  
  BULLET::::- "Tetragonula carbonaria" a bee kept for honey that is not related to the Honey bee
  
  BULLET::::- Western honey bee life cycle
  
  Section::::External links.
  
  BULLET::::- The Moir Collection of rare beekeeping books consisting of 250 volumes including items published from 1525 at National Library of Scotland
   Migratory bees are usually released in a very large farm for a few weeks to pollinate a single crop. Long term diet of one type of nectar makes the bee vulnerable to diseases. Recent studies have shown that the lifespan of migratory bees are less than that of stationary bees.
  
  Section::::Symptoms.
  
  A drop in the hive activity level is the primary indicator that food reserve may have depleted. In Summer, weight of the hive may also be used to suspect lack of honey.
  
  Section::::Symptoms.:Starvation increases pesticide effects.
   Honey bee starvation is a problem for bees and beekeepers. Starvation may be caused by unfavorable weather, disease, long distance transportation or depleting food reserve. Over-harvesting of honey (and the lack of supplemental feeding) is the foremost cause for scarcity as bees are not left with enough of a honey store, though weather, disease, and disturbance can also cause problems. Backyard beekeepers face more colony losses in the winter than in the summer, but for commercial beekeepers there is not much variation in loss by season. Starvation may be avoided by effective monitoring of hives and disease prevention measures. Starvation can amplify the toxic effect of pesticides bees are exposed to.
   Some sources indicate that the honey from the "B. lecheguana" hives is harvested regularly and consumed. In certain parts of Mexico, it appears that "B. lecheguana" is maintained in a state of semi-domestication. It is warned, however, that the honey can also be poisonous. The toxicity of the honey is a result of the wasp collecting nectar during the "Datura" blooming season.
  
  Section::::Human interactions.:Medicine.
   Another source of honey is from a number of wasp species, such as "Brachygastra lecheguana" and "Brachygastra mellifica", which are found in South and Central America. These species are known to feed on nectar and produce honey.
  
  Some wasps, such as "Polistes versicolor", even consume honey themselves, alternating between feeding on pollen in the middle of their lifecycles and feeding on honey, which can better provide for their energy needs.
  
  Section::::Production.
  
  Section::::Production.:Collection.
   Section::::Causes.
  
  Section::::Causes.:Food scarcity.
  
  Over-harvesting of honey (and the lack of supplemental feeding) is the foremost cause for scarcity. Bees are not left with enough of a honey store. Weather changes and extremes, available food reserve and presence of brood are factors that influence the speed at which food store depletes. It could just take a day or two of food scarcity to kill an entire hive.
  
  Section::::Causes.:Weather.
   The western honey bee is an important pollinator of crops; this service accounts for much of the species' commercial value. In 2005, the estimated commercial value of western honey bees was just under $200 billion worldwide. A large number of the crop species farmed worldwide depend on it. Although orchards and fields have increased in size, wild pollinators have dwindled. In a number of regions the pollination shortage is addressed by migratory beekeepers, who supply hives during a crop bloom and move them after the blooming period. Commercial beekeepers plan their movements and wintering locations according to anticipated pollination services. At higher latitudes it is difficult (or impossible) to overwinter sufficient bees, or to have them ready for early blooming plants. Much migration is seasonal, with hives wintering in warmer climates and moving to follow the bloom at higher latitudes. 
   Before the invention of removable frames, bee colonies were often sacrificed to conduct the harvest. The harvester would take all the available honey and replace the entire colony the next spring. Since the invention of removable frames, the principles of husbandry led most beekeepers to ensure that their bees have enough stores to survive the winter, either by leaving some honey in the beehive or by providing the colony with a honey substitute such as sugar water or crystalline sugar (often in the form of a "candyboard"). The amount of food necessary to survive the winter depends on the variety of bees and on the length and severity of local winters.
   Section::::Beekeeping.:Bee brood.
  
  Bee brood, the eggs, larvae, or pupae of honey bees, is edible and highly nutritious. Bee brood contains the same amount of protein that beef or poultry does. Bee brood is often harvested as a byproduct when the beekeeper has excess bees and does not wish to have any more.
  
  Section::::Beekeeping.:Propolis.
   Honey is collected from wild bee colonies or from domesticated beehives. On average, a hive will produce about of honey per year. Wild bee nests are sometimes located by following a honeyguide bird.
   BULLET::::- When compared to the Italian honey bee, they are not as prone to rob honey
  
  BULLET::::- Able to overwinter in smaller numbers of winter bees
  
  BULLET::::- Honey stores are conserved
  
  BULLET::::- Able to quickly adapt to changes in the environment
  
  BULLET::::- Better for areas with long winters
  
  BULLET::::- Fast rhythm of brood production and then brood rearing reduction when available forage decreases
  
  BULLET::::- Low use of propolis
  
  BULLET::::- Resistant to brood diseases
  
  BULLET::::- For areas with strong spring nectar flow and early pollination
  
  BULLET::::- Forage earlier in the morning and later in the evening, and on cool, wet days
   In very cold areas of North America and Europe, where honey bees are kept in ventilated buildings during the coldest part of winter, no cleansing flights are possible; under such circumstances, it is common for beekeepers to remove all honey from the hives and replace it with sugar water or high fructose corn syrup, which have nearly no indigestible matter.
  
  Section::::Chilled brood.
   Some southern U.S. beekeepers keep bees primarily to raise queens and package bees for sale. Northern beekeepers can buy early spring queens and 3- or 4-pound packages of live worker bees from the South to replenish hives that die out during the winter, although this is becoming less practical due to the spread of the Africanized bee.
   Nurse bees feed the worker larvae worker jelly which is secreted from glands that produce royal jelly. They will also go into the special cells to create a semi-royal jelly that is similar to the royal but it tastes more like honey.
  
  BULLET::::- Advanced Nurse Bees (days 6–11)
  
  BULLET::::- Nurse Bees will then feed royal jelly to the queen larva and drones receive worker jelly for 1 to 3 days at which time they are started on a diet of honey
  
  Section::::Progression of tasks.:Wax production (days 12–17).
   Section::::Life cycle.:Individual bee life cycle.
   Humans have kept honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, for millennia. Beekeepers collect honey, beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly from hives; bees are also kept to pollinate crops and to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.
   Section::::Beekeeping.:Honey.
   Bees can be fed water and sugar syrup in summer and fall. In the winter, syrup would freeze. Therefore, dry sugar is preferred. Harvested honey made by the bees can also be fed back. It is important to make sure honey comes from disease-free bees, although in practice, this is impossible, as every beehive carries some disease.
   Section::::Pollination.:Claims of human dependency.
  
  Western honey bees are often described as being essential to all human food production, leading to claims that without their pollination, all of humanity would starve, or even die out. Einstein is sometimes misquoted as saying "If bees disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live." But not only did the scientist not say that, there is no science to support the prediction, itself. In fact, many important crops need no insect pollination at all.
   Drones do not feed themselves when they are young; they are fed by workers and then when the drone bees get older they feed themselves from the honey supply.
  
  Section::::Worker activities.:Queen Attendants (days 7-12).
   Peter Dickey, the master beekeeper said, "We brought 100,000 bees with us, so there are more bees with us today than ever. But we brought the gentle ones so that is very important when we are doing bearding."
  
  Section::::Reception.
  
  Section::::Reception.:Box office.
   Section::::Beekeeping.
  
  The western honey bee is a colonial insect which is housed, transported by and sometimes fed by beekeepers. Honey bees do not survive and reproduce individually, but as part of the colony (a superorganism).
   Pesticide losses may be relatively easy to identify (large and sudden numbers of dead bees in front of the hive) or quite difficult, especially if the loss results from a gradual accumulation of pesticide brought in by the foraging bees. Quick-acting pesticides may deprive the hive of its foragers, dropping them in the field before they can return home.
  