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Facts About Honey Bees Honey bees are essential in making honey and around the world there are nine different known species of honey bees that do just that. The most common of the honey bees is one that is found within Europe and Africa known as the Apis Mellifera Linnaeus honey bee. This type of honey bee is so popular and so good at making honey that it is now distributed worldwide. It was first introduced to other countries like America as early as the 1600's by English and Spanish settlers. It became even more popular from 1859 to the early 1900's when beekeepers began to actively import this type of honey bee. Honey bees in general are extremely important to the world as a whole. They are crucial pollinators in urban, natural and agricultural landscapes. Together they pollinate about 130 different types of fruit, vegetables, nut and fibre crops as well as ornamental crops. |
Facts About Honey Bees CONT... They not only improve the crop yield but allow for almost $15 billion dollars of profit worldwide in these particular areas. Hundreds of millions more are generated through the sale of hive products such as pollen, wax, honey, royal jelly and venom. Honey bees live in colonies that consist of a single honey bee queen who is usually the mother of the other colony members. There are about 10,000 to 30,000 semi-sterile female workers and up to a few thousand males, also known as drones. The adult workers perform all of the different behavioral tasks associated with the keeping the colony from dying out. The worker honey bees perform the phenomenon spreading as well as other working tasks to make the honey. When the honey bees come out of their cells as adults they start to clean them and as they age they are able to feed the larvae, process and store food, secrete wax, construct the combs, and guard the entrance to keep out predators. |
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As early as three weeks old they start foraging for nectar and continue to do this until they die. The life expectance of a honey bee differs along with many factors such as the social structure of the colony, the environment in which they forage and what type of year it is to name a few things. Some interesting facts about honeybees include the fact that they have five eyes. They fly about 20 mph and have six legs because they are technically considered to be insects. It is also true that when a bee loses its stinger it will cause the bee to die. In all total honey bees have been around over 30 million years according to some ancient documents. A typical beehive can hold up to 50,000 bees at one time, and the honey bees within one hive must collect nectar from about 2 million flowers to make only one pound of honey. In fact, the average forager only makes about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in their entire lifetime, which is why we need so many bees in this world. Obviously, for this reason and so many more, honeybees are essential to have around and bring us so much of the wonderful things in the world such as flowers and honey. Adopt A Share |
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