Interesting facts about bees
Bees are renowned for their highly organized society, amazing architecture, and incredible products like honey. Here are some very interesting facts about bees.
They are the only kind of insects that produce food eaten by human.
Cool facts about bees: they have 2 compound eyes that are made up from thousands of tiny lens. Each eye is located on different side of their head. They also get 3 simple eyes on the top of their head.
Honey has been believed a magic of healing and promoting human health.
It has been used for approximately millions of years.
Scientists call honey bees as Apis mellifera. They are totally friendly with environment and play an important role in pollination.
Interesting facts about bees: honey is the only food which contains all necessary nutrients to sustain life such as enzymes, mineral, vitamins and water. In addition, only substance called “pinocembrin”, an antioxidant related to brain function improvement.
Bees get an exceptional sense of smell. Interesting facts about bees: they have 170 odorant receptors in the comparison with fruit flies, 62 ones and mosquitoes, 79 ones. This sense helps them to recognize kin’s signals, communicate inside their hive and detect odor. It also gives bees ability to distinguish hundreds of different floral and figure out whether or not a flower carries pollen or nectar from a distance of a meter away.
Bees are famous for their unique buzz because of their remarkably fast wings stroke, around 200 beats per second. A honey bee can reach up to the speed of 15 miles per hour.
A medium worker bee produces about less than one-tenth teaspoon of honey in her whole life.
Interesting facts about bees: all bees in a hive will fly 90,000 miles, 3 times longer than the Earth’s planet to collect ONE kg of honey.
But a bee needs only a ounce of honey to fly around the world.
Within a collection journey, a bee set its feet on 50–100 flowers.
Despite of having so tiny brain with the size of a sesame seed, bees possesses a outstanding capacity to remember and learn things and perform complicated calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.
A hive of bees often accommodates 20,000–60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female with 6-week lifespan and in charge of all work in the hive, while the queen bee can reach up to 5-year expectancy. She is the only bee to lay eggs. Summer months are the time she is the busiest. At that time, the hive is on the top of its strength, the queen bee lays up to approximately 2500 within a day.
Interesting facts about bees: there is another kind of bees inside the hive. They are larger than worker bees and called make honey bees or drones. They get no stinger. The only thing they do in the hive is mating.
Each bee has its individual odour for identification.
Worker bees only sting when they feel threatened but they die right after stinging. Queen bees also have stinger but they stick to the hive, so there is no need for them to defend.
A human needs to being stung by about 1100 honey bees to die.
During winter, their food is honey they have collected in the previous warmer months. A tight cluster is also built to keep the whole hive warm.
