All about Honey Bees
Honey Bees are incredible and amazing creatures that have clearly defined roles. Among the 10,000 species of bees on the earth, the Honey bee is the one and only bee that produces Honey.
In a single hive, about 20,000 to 60,000 bees live with the Queen Bee as the head of the family which lays about 1500 eggs per day and lives for nearly two years. The success of the beehive majorly dpends on the queen bee. If there is more than one queen bee in the hive, they may fight until death.
The next in the hierachy is the drone (male bee) who is essentially lazy – his only job is to mate the queen bee. Drones live for about 24 days and they are stingless. The work is left to the workers in the hive who fly around and gather pollen and nectar.
Worker bees can fly up to 14 kms searching for food , working up speeds of more than 24 kms per hour. Once the worker bees finds flowers from where they can collect nectar, they perform a dance – the orientation of their movements and the frequency of their vibrations indicate the distance and direction of the flowers. But, this activity takes its toll and most of the worker bees die within 40 days.
With their rapid wing movements, the worker bees can evaporate any water in the honeycomb cells. If the amount of water is less than 18 percent, then that mixture is called Honey.
Apart from this, Honey bees are very smart. They can easily tell which items are similar to each other and which are different. Scientists say that the bees even count the landmarks they pass on the way searching for food. National University Scientist of Australia says ” I have been studying Honey Bees since 1980, and I’m often surprised by our experimental results. The Honey Bee is clever and very smart”.
Scientists are also thinking that Honey Bees can detect landmines which may be very useful in several war-torn nations.
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Posted by Kranthi on 28th April, 2009
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