15 little facts about bees

Bees are lovely little elves in our lives. They are busy all day long and contribute their strength to the bee colony. At the same time, it also provides bee products such as honey for us humans.

Below benefitbee have collected 15 kinds of little knowledge about bees to share with you.

1. About 1/3 of the fruits and vegetables we can eat are pollinated by bees. If the bees disappear, animals will be endangered due to lack of food, and the survival of human beings will also be affected.

2. A bee needs to collect about 1,000 flowers to fill its honey sac. On average, each worker bee can only brew about one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

3. For every kilogram of honey, bees need to fly 450,000 kilometers = circle the earth 11 times = work for 33,300 hours = suck 33 million stamens = fly 37,000 round-trip collection flights = collect more than 1 million flowers.

4. The male peak is a special existence in the bee colony. It does not need to work. The only job is to mate with the queen bee and reproduce. They all die after mating.

5. About how bees communicate: Bees have their own language through special chemicals (pheromones) and unique "dances".

6. Mainly rely on the polarization direction of sunlight to navigate.

7. Bees are currently the only insects that produce food for humans.

8. The wings of a bee can beat 11,400 times per minute, so we can hear the obvious buzzing sound when the bee flies.

9. Worker bees are not male, but all female. They are the most industrious, responsible for collecting honey, building nests, and nursery. However, their lifespan is only about 1 to 3 months during the collection season, and about half a year in winter.

10. Honey bees have 5 eyes: a pair of compound eyes, 3 single eyes, 6 legs, 2 pairs of wings, the compound eyes are larger and distributed on both sides of the head, composed of thousands of lenses, a nectar sac and a stomach

11. Bees can fly 24 kilometers in an hour.

12. Bees do not hibernate in winter like wasps. On the contrary, they gather together in their nests, reduce going out, and rely on stored honey for the winter.

13. The lifespan of the queen bee is about 3 to 5 years, and there is also a record of living up to 9 years. She is the only female bee in the bee colony that can lay eggs normally. Its role is to reproduce worker bees, drones and new queen bees. It can lay 1500-2000 eggs a day.

14. Bees have their unique facial recognition system, so they can recognize human faces.

15. According to a Harvard University study, bees have been disappearing over the past 50 years due to changes in farming practices and the use of pesticides.

Especially Article 15, bees are gradually disappearing under the influence of modern agriculture. Einstein once said that if the bees disappear, humans can only live for 4 years. This is not alarmist talk. I hope people will pay attention to it!