Top 25 Facts about Honey Bee
Honey Bee
A Honey Bee is eusocial flying
insect. The life span of western
honeybee is 30 to 60 days.
Honey bee live in garden,
woodland and orchards. Honey
bees are yellow in colour
with black stripes. Honey bees
are oval shaped and 15mm
long. Honey bees are of three
types.
1. Queen
2. Worker and
3. Drone.
Interesting facts about
honey bees
1. The Honey bee are the only
insects which
produce food for humans.
2. Honey bee has 5 eyes, three
eyes on the top of head and
two compound eyes.
3. Honey bee has six legs which
makes them Flexible.
4. Honey bee brain is about the
size of a tiny grain of sugar. It
can understand the difference
between same or different
and above or below.
5. Honey bee uses it's front
teeth, tongue and antennae
to taste. Antennae have more
than 300 taste sensors.
6. Honey bees eat nectar and
pollen. When food is scarce
they may eat insect
secretions. They also eat
plums and grapes.
7. Honey bees communicate
through pheromones passed
on through feeding. This is
called ‘trophallaxis’.
8. Honey bees fly up to 15 mph
and beat their wings 200
times per second.
9. Honey bee cannot see red
colours.
10. Honey bees have been
trained to act as 'bomb
detectors'. Scientists have
trained honey bees to react to
minute amounts of chemicals
found in explosives.
11. Honey bees can also be
trained to detect illness in
humans.
12. A typical honey bee colony
has around 50,000 workers.
13. Male honey bees also known
as drones have no father,
but they do have a
grandfather.
14. A queen honey bee lays 2000
- 3000 eggs per day and it
establishes its colony.
15. If the queen honey bee is
removed from the hive,
within 15 minutes, the rest
of the colony will know
about it.
16. The queen honey bee is
about twice the length of a
worker.
17. The queen honey bee
would live for 2 years, but
some may even live for 3 or
4 years. Drones live for 55
days. Worker honey bees
who live in the Spring may
live for 6 or 7 weeks but
honey bees who live in
autumn may live for 4 – 6
months.
18. Honey bees snooze while
sleeping.
19. Smell is very important for
honey bees. They are well
worst in finding new smells.
20. With the help of " Honey
Bee Dance" they inform
other bees about location of
food, water or new home.
21. Honey bees have to fly
about 55,000 miles to
produce a pound of honey
by visiting around 2 million
flowers.
22. Each honey bee makes
about 1/12th of a teaspoon
of honey in its life time.
23. The hexagon structure of
honeycombs enables bees
to make efficient use
of beeswax.
24. Honey bee had lived more
than the age of human.
There is a fossil evidence
from 150 million years ago.
25. Only female bees can sting.
Male bees don’t have
stingers.
How do honey bees make
honey
Bees start making honey by
visiting the flowers. They
collect a sugary juice called
nectar from the blossom by
sucking it out with their
tongues. They store it in their
honey stomach which is
different from their food
stomach.
When they have a full load, they
fly back to the hive. There, they
pass it on through their mouths
to other worker bees who chew
it for about half an hour. It is
passed from bee to bee, until it
gradually turns into honey
Then the bees store it in
honeycomb cells, which are
like tiny jars made of wax. The
honey is still a bit wet, so they
fan it with their wings to make
it dry and become more sticky.
When it's ready, they seal the
cell with a wax lid to keep it
clean.
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