Amazing bees

Did you know?

 That up to 70.000 bees can live in one colony.

 That on warm days in spring, summer and autumn, one colony can send 10.000 – 15.000 bees out of the hive to collect pollen and nectar.

 That bees need to fly a distance of 150,000 kilometres (a distance of almost four times around the earth), just to collect 1kg of honey.

 That bees need to collect pollen from around about 15 million plants to make 1kg of honey.

 That during just one small flight one bee can visit up to 170 flowers.

 That a single bee can carry around 2 to 3 million grains of pollen, which is around one third of its own body weight. 

 That a single bee colony can consume up to 35kg of pollen in one year.

 That a single bee will leave the colony around 13 times a day, to collect nectar and transport it back in a second stomach, which is just used to transport nectar and make honey.

 That bees recognize a flowers specie’s by using their sense of smell, and it is the smell of the blossoms that will lead a bee to pollinate flowers of the same species.

 That a bee needs to visit more than 200 blossoms to produce one single drop of nectar, and this drop is then passed from bee to bee where it is enriched with secretions from their glands;this process takes 1 to 3 days and will thicken and enrich the nectar, and ultimately it becomes a precious drop of honey.

 That a bee’s wings make 180-250 beats per second, fully loaded a bee can fly at a speed of 30 kilometres per hour, Unloaded it can fly up to 70 kilometres per hour.

 That a bee returning to the hive will communicate by wagging its tail and circling the hive to accurately inform other bees about the range and quality of food sources, they can also communicate whether there are hazards or dangers.

 That a single bee can only survive in its own community of bees.

 That bees execute up to 7200 wing strokes per second. This fanning action is performed in order to cool or heat the inside of the hive. 

 That bees do not hibernate. They retreat to their queen and cluster together and therefore can survive outside temperatures of minus 40 degrees and below.

 That every bee hive has its own scent, to enable bees to find their way back to their own hive.

 That when worker bees decide to create a new queen, due to the old queen weakening or dying, that they feed the chosen larvae solely with royal jelly.

 That a queen bee, between April and June, will lay up to 2000 eggs per day, around 200.000 eggs every year.

 That a queen bee can live up to 5 years, while most worker bees only live up to 6 weeks during the summer.

 dThat nurse bees take care of bee larvae, and will visit each larvae around 2000 times during their larval stage, which lasts from 7 to 10 days.

 That in a bee hive you will only find, around 200 hundred bees that are male, the drone bees, the drone bees develop from unfertilized eggs, and cannot sting; their sole purpose is to reproduce with a queen. 

 That each worker bee will fulfil six different roles during its short lifespan:

 That 1.25 million small flakes of wax are required to produce 1 kg of wax comb, that all cell walls of a honeycomb are just 0.07 millimetres thick and the distance between them is always 8-10 millimetres.

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