Bee Facts (2024)

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What are 5 interesting facts about bees? ›

Although bears do like honey, they prefer to eat the bee larvae. The scientific study of bees is called Apiology. Bees have two stomachs - one stomach for eating and the other is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive.

Bees, like many insects, see from approximately 300 to 650 nm. That means they can't see the color red, but they can see in the ultraviolet spectrum (which humans cannot).

Bees have 5 eyes

As well as two large eyes either side of its head, a bee has three 'simple' or 'ocelli' eyes on the top of its head. These detect light (but not shapes), meaning that a bee can sense if it is being approached from above by a predator.

A honey bee visits 50-100 flowers in one trip. Honey comb is hexagon (six-sided) shaped. The wall of comb is 2/1000 inch thick, but can support 25 times their own weight. Honey bees beat their wings 11,400 times per minute.

Eyes – Incredible as it may seem, the honey bee has FIVE eyes, two large compound eyes and three smaller ocelli eyes in the centre of its head.

Their bodies are filled with an extracellular fluid termed hemolymph that lacks hemoglobin or red blood cells. Hemolymph is not confined within vessels but circulates freely in the extracellular space. There is a heart or, rather, hearts that form a tube running from the abdomen to the head.

Honey bees, like other winged Hymenopterans, have four wings, while insects of the order Diptera, including true flies and mosquitoes, have a single pair (remember, di = 2).

According to bee and wasp exterminators, there are even some colors that can naturally provoke them. Dark colors like red and black are perceived as aggressive predators so they will be more agitated and defensive towards you. Sticking to white or pale colors would be the best choice.

Can bees hear sound? ›

Bees, in contrast to people, do not hear with their ears, but they notice the sound with their whole body, especially with their antennas and sensitive body hair. The bees during their wagging dance produce the "sound" of 250 oscillations per second (250Hz).

And while they might not be able to identify individual humans, they can learn to distinguish features that are arranged to look like faces. The results suggest that, even with their , insects can handle image analysis.

15-20 mph (21-28 km/h), when flying to a food. source, and about 12 mph (17 km/h), when returning. with nectar, pollen, propolis or water.

Even though they cannot see all of the details of an object, bees' set of eyes enables them to see their surroundings while flying. Their viewing angle is almost 360°. In addition, the range of colors these small workers can perceive is slightly different from ours.

You may have noticed that honey bees, unlike other bees, have hairy compound eyes. These hairs are present to catch pollen when the bee is foraging so that they can collect as much pollen as possible².

Male bees don't have stingers. Honey bees communicate through a series of dance moves. A hive of bees will fly over 55,000 miles to make 1lb of honey and can create 100lbs of honey in a year. Bees can sense the hormone a human gives off when they're scared.

A Queen Bee will lay 800,000 eggs in her lifetime!

The queen's life is dedicated to reproduction and she only leaves the hive once in her life in order to mate.

There is a heart or, rather, hearts that form a tube running from the abdomen to the head. The hearts work in tandem and are made up of muscle cells that pump rhythmically, creating circulation of hemolymph from the abdomen to the head and back again.