Question

10 interesting facts about bees

Answer 1

1. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called "royal Jelly". This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen.

2.Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second.

3. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors.

4.The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months when she can lay up to 2.500 eggs a day.

5.. Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their "Waggle dance". When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source.

6. The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, she’ll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.

7.Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.

8. Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The members of the hive are divided into three types: Queen, workers and drones.

9.It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.

10.Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members' identification.


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