20 Incredible Information About Honey Bee

I think we should invest in ourselves some honey bee facts, after all so divers curative and health-promoting opportunities for the community begin with this little industrious creature. As you interpret the following 20 honey bee facts, you testament be so intrigued just cherish me by this teensy-weensy fellow's extraordinary abilities.
1. The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
2. It is the only insect that produces chow eaten by man.
3. Honey bees are environmentally affectionate and are vital as pollinators.
4. They are insects which are scientifically known as Apis mellifera.
5. They have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head), 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, 2 wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.
6. The honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times in a minute, thus producing their unique buzz.
7. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour, hence it would have to fly around 90,000 miles - three times around the environment - to make one pound of honey.
8. The guideline honey bee will actually assemble only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
9. It takes approximately 556 workers to gather 1 pound of honey from about 2 million flowers.
10. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.
11. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
12. A colony of bees comprises one queen and 20,000 to 60,000 honeybees.
13. Employee honey bees are female, live 6 to 8 weeks and bring about all the work.
14. The queen bee lives for about 2-3 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day. Click here to be trained more about the Honey Bee Being Cycle,
15. The mortal honey bees are called drones, and they do no work at all, have no stinger, all they end is mating.
16. Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members' identification.
17. Only worker bees sting, and peerless if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens get a stinger, on the other hand don't leave the hive to help defend it.
18. It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.
19. Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing".
20. During winter, honey bees refreshment on the honey they collected during the warmer months. They form a tight swarm in their hive to grasp the queen and themselves warm.
Of these honey bee facts, No 19: Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing" is perhaps the most memorable. And the most incredible to me is No 2: It is the solitary insect that produces edible food for man! The more I learnt about honey's great creator -the honey bee itself, its highly organised society, how it acts with such intricate cooperation, and the indefinite bee products, the extra I admire and respect this amazing creature. It is no bewilderment why sometimes the colony is called a superorganism.
"Unique among all God's creatures, single the honeybee improves the sphere and preys not on any other species." ~ Royden Brown
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would chalk up no more than four senescence to live?" ~ Albert Einstein
Copyright (c) 2008 Ruth Tan

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