Are you curious to learn some weird and wonderful facts about bees?
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It’s time to chat about bee facts.
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Facts About Bees
1 – Bees are the only insect that produces food eaten by humans.
2 – The average lifespan of a bee is 4-5 weeks, with queens living up to 3 years.
3 – Honeybees have been around for about 50 million years.
4 – Bees communicate through dance – they perform different dances depending on the type of information they want to convey.
5 – There are over 20,000 species of bees in the world and scientists estimate there could be as many as 100,000 more yet to be discovered!
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6 – A honeybee’s wings beat 11,400 times per minute.
7 – Honeybees are social insects; there are about 20,000 bees per colony with different jobs such as building comb cells or producing honey and communicating with other members of the colony through dancing and pheromones.
8 – Honeybees can fly up to 15 miles per hour and a whole hive may have as many as 20,000 bees.
9 – A bee’s eyesight is six times better than human vision.
10 – The average lifespan of a honeybee is 6 weeks but some queens can live for more than two years.
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11 – When worker bees die they release an odor that tells the other workers what needs to be done with their bodies.
12 – Worker bees are responsible for collecting pollen from flowers and nectar from plants then storing it in cells within the hive until it becomes honey or royal jelly (a substance fed only to queen larvae).
13 – Bees can fly up to 12 miles in one day, but they don’t like to fly more than 4 miles away from their hive on any given trip.
14 – A bee has 5 eyes – 2 compound eyes and 3 simple eyes (ocelli), 6 legs, 2 antennae, and a stinger at the end of its abdomen.
15 – A bee’s tongue is covered with tiny hairs to collect nectar.
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16 – The queen bee can lay up to 2000 eggs per day!
17 – Bees are essential pollinators of flowering plants – without them, many types of fruit would disappear due to lack of fertilization.
18 – One way you can help bees is by buying local honey or donating money towards organizations like Friends of the Earth who work on behalf of bees Another way you can help bees is through plantings – planting wildflowers near your home will provide pollen and nectar for bees while creating a more beautiful landscape.
19 – You should also keep your garden free from pesticides because they kill off any bugs including good ones such as ladybugs which eat aphids (insects that destroy crops) and caterpillars (which eat leaves). This means you’ll need less pesticide spray!
20 – Honeybees need water at least once every three days because they produce wax scales on their bodies which can lead them to dehydrate if not replenished with water regularly.
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21 – Honeybees are not native to North America- they were brought over by European settlers during colonial times.
22 – The average worker bee produces only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
23 – Bees can see colors and have the ability to see color much faster than humans.
24 – Honeybees cannot sting unless their tail is pulled off first because they store all of their venom in it!
25 – Honeybees produce honey as a way of storing food in their hives – nectar and pollen constitutes the bulk of their diet.
