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May 24, 2024 · Learn about bees, the insects that pollinate flowers and produce honey and wax. Explore the diversity, evolution, and ecology of bees, from solitary to social, from wasplike to flylike.
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A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
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- Honey Bees
- Hive Members
- Flying & Smelling
- Worker Bee & Queen
- Waggle Dance
- Disappearance Of Bees
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This article provides ten facts about honey bees, including their role as pollinators, the different types of members in a hive, their flying speed and sense of smell, the lifespan of workers and queens, their communication through dancing etc., but also highlights the problem of colony collapse disorder that has caused billions of honey bees to di...
The article provides ten facts about honey bees, including their role as pollinators, the different types of bees in a hive, and their importance to our ecosystem.
There are three types of members in a hive- queen, workers and drones. Queen runs the whole hive by laying eggs and producing chemicals that guide other bees' behavior. Workers forage for food while drones mate with new queens.
Honeybees fly at 25 km/hr and beat their wings 200 times per second; they have 170 odorant receptors which means they have an excellent sense of smell used to communicate within the hive or recognize different flowers when looking for food.
A worker bee lives 5-6 weeks during which she produces around 1/12 teaspoon of honey; whereas a queen can live up to five years and lay up to 2,500 eggs per day in summer months.
To share information about best food sources, worker bees perform 'waggle dance' where it moves its body indicating direction towards food source after returning from collecting nectar from flowers .
Over past 15 years billions of honeybees across world are disappearing due to unknown reasons referred as ‘colony collapse disorder’ leading upto 90% disappearance in some regions .
Learn 10 facts about honey bees, their roles, honey production, communication and threats. Find out how honey bees pollinate flowers, fruits and vegetables and how you can help them.
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are currently considered a clade, called Anthophila. [1]
May 5, 2024 · Learn about honeybee, any of a group of insects in the family Apidae that make honey. Find out about the different honeybee species, their body plan, sexes and castes, life cycle, and diseases.
Learn about honeybees, social and cooperative insects that produce honey and beeswax for humans. Find out how they are divided into workers, queens, and drones, and how they live in hives.
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