Category: Honey Bee
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20 Best Flowers for Bees, Butterflies And Other Pollinators
Introduction A bee did not have to go far from its bee colony not so long ago. Flowers and honey plants were everywhere nearby. Today, a bee has to travel long distances to find the best flowers for bees. What is the reason for this? First of all, the number of inhabitants on the planet…
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How Spicy Foods Affect Your Body?
The hottest peppers in the world have names that reflect their nasty taste; Dragon’s Breath, Trinidad Scorpion, Armageddon and Komodo Dragon. One of the hottest of these is “Bhut Jolokia,” which grows in parts of India and is used to make chili grenades: a non-lethal weapon developed by Indian military scientists, similar to tear gas….
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What Do Bees Do In Winter – What Happens To Bees?
Introduction While most of the animal world requires extra attention during the winter, cold weather suits bees. Snow that can fall for days has a very good effect on bees. Although they would think differently, it suits bees to have snow and low temperatures in the winter, mostly because they are biologically accustomed to being…
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How Long Do Bees Live?
Many insects have a very short lifespan. Bees are no exception. A bee is a flying insect with a relatively short lifespan. How long do bees live? This question is usually of interest to young beekeepers and ordinary, curious people. Three months, six months or a year? Maybe a couple of years? Unfortunately, no. The…
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How Many Eyes Does A Bee Have?
Bees navigate in the outside world with the help of the senses. These include: sight, hearing, smell, taste and other organs. Today I am going to write to you about one of the sensory organs of bees, the eyes. I will do my best to answer some of the most frequently asked questions; how many…
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What Is Culture, Anyhow? Values, Customs, And Language
Understand what is meant by culture. Know that there are different kinds of culture. Identify several different kinds of culture. What exactly do we mean by culture? Culture is different from personality. For the purposes of this article, we define personality as an individual’s identity and unique physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics. Without a doubt,…
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Interesting Facts From The Life Of The Queen Bee: The Ruthless And Vulnerable Mother Of All Bees
Just as befits the real queen, the queen bee has 24 hours a day worker bees that constantly take care of her. These worker bees spend most of their time feeding, cleaning, and even digesting food for their queen bee. Without such care, the queen bee would soon die. As the only sexually mature female…
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Appearance and Description of Bees
All bees have three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings, senses of sight ( two compound and three dotted eyes), senses of smell (tentacles), taste (tongue and proboscis), touch and hearing (sensory hairs). Worker bees have longer and better developed proboscis than queen bees and drones because they need to collect nectar and…
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Interesting Facts from the Life of Bees
In order to produce 1 kg of honey, bees need to bring 3-4 kg of nectar into the hive, which depends on the content of moisture in the air and nectar. The bee sucks about 0.02 mg of nectar from one flower. One bee visits about 10 flowers per minute, and one trip from the…
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How Bees Make Honey? – Why Bees Make Honey?
Good-tasting honey is considered as one of the most delicate foods. Even small children know who is responsible for making this treat which is the most natural of them all. However, not everyone knows how bees make honey. Which ingredients do they use to make honey, what is the process, why is comb necessary, why…