Interesting facts about bees

Bees, like perhaps all insects, often appear to us as a very primitive life form. However, this species is one of the most stable and least volatile in the ecosystem. So, why are bees being overtaken by evolution? It turns out that they are not so simple, our worker bees. Here are some interesting facts about these hard-working bees.

The queen bee lives for 4-5 years, while worker bees live for only 30-40 days. The queen bee's "miracle powers" were given to her during the larval stage, when worker bees fed her larva with royal jelly for much longer than other larvae. So, royal jelly - truly magical!

One worker bee circles the globe one and a half times in its lifetime and produces about 1/10 of a teaspoon of honey.

A queen bee can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day. She lays more eggs per day than she weighs. At least it's a mother!

The honeycomb is the perfect warehouse. The honeycomb's honeycomb cells, when joined together, can hold the most honey with the least building material (wax).

Bees can fly at speeds of up to 25km/h and flap 200 times per second. So they could outrun any sprinter!

When a queen bee dies, she takes a new queen and breeds a new one. The best place is never empty.

The only males in the hive are drones. They do not work, have no stings and their only task is to mate with the queen. When autumn arrives, the drones are thrown out of the hive without any scruples - nobody likes a loafer.

The worker bee has about 170 odour-sensitive receptors. No other perfume manufacturer can boast that!

Since bees can't talk, they have invented an unusual way to communicate - dancing! By wiggling her tummy and walking on all fours, she tells her sisters how far away from the hive and in which direction to look for the best nectar. She calculates the trajectory and distances with her sesame seed-sized brain. A real little Einstein...

A colony is made up of 20 000 - 80 000 worker bees and only one queen. A true multiparent mother!

The queen bee decides how many eggs to lay. Drones hatch from unfertilised eggs and inherit only the queen's genes, while worker bees inherit both the queen's and the drone's genes.

Worker bees don't sleep. At night, they save energy and rest simply by not moving. Could you do that?

The Queen does not mate in the hive. She flies out to "fly", mates with 5-45 different drones and then returns. This mating is enough for her for life.

Honey is the only edible food that contains everything you need to sustain life.

How to Honey the darker - the richer. Dark honey has the highest concentration of antioxidants.

Bee venom is stronger than cobra venom! Fortunately, she has very little of it...

Only worker bees sting, and only when they sense a real threat. Because the sting of a worker bee is serrated like a knife, once the bee has stung it, it is unable to pull it back out. Once they lose the sting, they die. Although the queen has a stinger, which is smooth and can sting repeatedly, she rarely uses it to remove other queens.

Do you know how a bee is like a dog? It can be trained to find buried mines!

The worker bee can carry 80% body weight of nectar or pollen at a time. It is at least a heavy lifter.

Worker bees have two stomachs - one for foraging and one for storing nectar.

Bite - the best smart air conditioner. In winter, some worker bees "work as heaters". They keep the hive at 35°C by vibrating their abdomens. In summer, the bees flap their wings to cool the hive and keep the air circulating.

And what do you think about bees now?