We often do not pay attention to the world around us. We have such a diverse fauna and flora that so many interesting things are missed. Bees are the hardest working insects in the world. No one else in the last 50 million years has been able to repeat the unique actions that took place behind the thin walls of honeycombs in the hive. Bees – real workers, and they don’t care about the weather.
1. During a fire, the bees have a self-preservation instinct, and they begin to stock up on honey, thereby not paying attention to strangers. Therefore, the use of smoke in beekeeping is effective.
2. Bees in the amount of two hundred individuals must work during the day so that a person receives one spoonful of honey.
3. These insects secrete wax in order to fix all honeycombs.
4. Be sure to keep a certain number of bees in the hive all the time to ensure high-quality ventilation to evaporate excess moisture from the nectar, which turns into honey.
5. To warn other bees about the presence of a food source, the bee begins to perform a special dance with the help of circular flights around its axis.
6. On average, bees fly at a speed of 24 km/h.
7. An average bee family can collect up to 10 kg of honey during the day.
8. A bee can easily fly long distances and still find its way home.
9. Approximately within a radius of two kilometers, each bee finds a source of food.
10. During the day, a bee can explore an area of more than 12 hectares.
11. Up to eight kilograms can reach the weight of an average bee swarm.
12. An average bee family consists of about 50 thousand bees.
13. About 160 ml is the weight of nectar, which is deposited by a bee in one comb.
14. About 100 thousand particles of pollen are part of one cell.
15. Empty combs without honey and brood are called dry.
16. In one day, the bee makes 10 sorties in the area and brings 200 mg of pollen.
17. Up to 30% of the entire bee family work daily to collect pollen.
18. Poppy, lupine, wild rose, corn allow bees to collect only pollen.
19. Nectar contains glucose, sucrose and fructose.
20. Mostly bee honey consists of a large amount of glucose.
21. Honey with a large amount of fructose is characterized by a low level of crystallization.
22. Bees choose pollen with sufficient sucrose content.
23. During the flowering of fireweed and raspberries, the collection of honey increases by 17 kg in one day.
24. In Siberia, bees collect the largest amount of honey.
25. 420 kg of honey is the maximum recorded record of honey collection by one family from a honey hive in a season.
26. In the bee family, all important duties are equally distributed.
27. About 60% of the bees work to collect nectar in a colony weighing more than five kilograms.
28. To collect 40 grams of nectar, one bee must visit about 200 sunflower flowers.
29. The weight of the bee is 0.1 grams. Its carrying capacity is: with nectar 0.035 g, with honey 0.06 g
30. Bees do not empty their intestines (at all) in winter.
31. Swarm bees do not sting.
32. A large amount of smoke can irritate the bees.
33. The queen bee does not sting a person even in an irritated state.
34. About 100 g of honey is needed to raise a thousand larvae.
35. On average, a bee colony requires 30 kilograms of honey per year.
36. Honeycombs built by bees are characterized by distinctive strength and durability.
37. A bee can extend its life five times.
38. Bees are characterized by highly developed olfactory receptors.
39. At a distance of one kilometer, a bee is able to smell the smell of a flower.
40. During the flight, bees lift loads, large masses of their own body.
41. A bee with a load can accelerate up to 65 kilometers per hour.
42. About 10 million flowers need to be visited by a bee to collect one kilogram of honey.
43. One bee is able to visit about 7 thousand flowers in one day.
44. Among the bees there is also a special kind of albino, which is characterized by white eyes.
45. Bees can communicate with each other.
46. With the help of body movements and pheromones, bees communicate with each other.
47. Up to 50 mg of nectar can be brought by one bee per flight.
48. It should also be noted that during a long flight a bee can eat half of the collected nectar.
49. Even in Egypt, as excavations have shown, they were engaged in beekeeping 5 thousand years ago.
50. In the vicinity of the Polish city of Poznan there is a beekeeping museum, which includes more than a hundred old beehives.
51. During excavations, scientists discovered ancient coins depicting bees.
52. One bee can explore an area of more than 12 hectares.
53. A bee can carry a load that is 20 times more than its own body weight.
54. A bee can reach speeds of up to 65 km per hour.
55. In one second, the bee makes up to 440 wing flaps.
56. There are cases in history when bees built their hives on the roofs of houses.
57. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is equal to the path that one bee flies during the honey collection.
58. Bees, in order to find nectar, are guided by the special color of flowers.
59. The main pest of bees is the hawk moth, it can copy the sounds of the queen bee.
60. One bee colony needs about two glasses of water a day.
61. The inhabitants of Ceylon eat bees.
62. One of the amazing wonders of the world is the relationship between bee and flower.
63. It is bees that are directly involved in the pollination of vegetables growing in greenhouses.
64. Bees influence the taste properties of vegetables and fruits during their pollination.
65. Honey is included in the list of obligatory products for astronauts and divers.
66. Honey can be absorbed almost completely, especially under extreme conditions.
67. At one time, a bee is able to bring 50 mg of nectar to the hive.
68. The smoke has a calming effect on the bees.
69. Bees cannot use a stinger with a full belly of nectar.
70. The smell of laundry soap soothes the bees.
71. Bees do not like strong odors.
72. Honey is characterized by the unique properties of a preservative, which is able to store food for a long time.
73. The Romans and Greeks used honey to preserve fresh meat.
74. Honey was used for embalming in ancient Egypt.
75. Honey is characterized by a unique property – to keep food fresh for a long time.
76. Honey contains a huge amount of useful substances, vitamins and microelements.
77. Each hive has its own guard bees, which reliably protect it from enemy attacks.
78. A bee can fly into someone else’s hive deliberately. The reason is the plunder of a weaker family, when it’s bad around with a bribe, or the inability to return to her family (late, cold, rain), in this case she assumes a pose of humility and the watchman let her through.
79. These insects recognize their fellows by the smell of the body.
80. A bee can perform various tasks during its life.
81. A worker bee can live up to 40 days.
82. With the help of dance, useful information is transmitted between bees.
83. The bee has five eyes.
84. Due to the peculiarity of vision, bees see flowers of blue, white and yellow colors best.
85. The uterus mates with the drone on the fly, at a speed of about 69 km/h. The uterus mates with several males, who die after mating because their reproductive organ remains in the uterus. The uterus has enough sperm obtained for mating for life (up to 9 years).
86. About 17 days is the maturation of a bee egg.
87. The upper jaws of the bee are needed in order to collect honey.
88. At the end of summer, the queen with a swarm of bees goes in search of a new home.
89. During the wintering period, the bees huddle into a ball, in the center of which the queen sits, and constantly move to warm her. As they move, they generate heat. The temperature in the ball is up to 28 °. The bees also feed on stored honey.
90. About 50 kg of pollen is stored by one bee colony during the summer.
91. The bees go through four stages of development during their life.
92. The bee immediately dies after releasing the sting.
93. Autumn hatching bees live 6-7 months – they survive the winter well. The bees participating in the main honey collection die already in 30-40 days. In spring and autumn, bees live no longer than 45-60 days.
94. A queen bee can lay 1,000 to 3,000 eggs in one day.
95. The young queen independently establishes a whole colony.
96. The African bee is the most dangerous of all existing bee species.
97. Today there are bee hybrids that are formed by crossing different types of bees.
98. A person can die from a hundred bee stings.
99. The bee plays a major role in the pollination of agricultural plants.
100. Scientists have taught bees to look for explosives.