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Interesting Facts About Honey Bee

For centuries, beekeepers have raised honey bees, harvesting the sweet honey they produce and relying on them to pollinate crops. But thatu2019s not all to honey bee u2013 the honey's great creator. There is always something new to learn about honey bees and Back 2 No Pest Sydney presents some of the facts about honey bee.

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Interesting Facts About Honey Bee

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  1. Facts About Honey Bee Created by – Back 2 No Pest

  2. Honey Bee Honeybees are flying insects, and close relatives of wasps and ants. They are found on every continent on earth, except for Antarctica. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.

  3. The body of the honey bee is segmented: stinger, legs, antenna, three segments of thorax and six visible segments of abdomen. The head of the honey bee consists of the eyes, antennae and feeding structures.

  4. The members of the hive are divided into three types: Queen: One queen runs the whole hive. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive’s next generation of bees. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees.

  5.      Workers: The worker bee is a female that is not fertile. Their roles include searching for food (flowers pollen and nectar), construction and protection of the hive, cleaning and circulating air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees that most individuals ever see outside the hive flying around.

  6.      Drones: Drones are the laziest bees in the colony. Their only role is to find a queen to mate with. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!

  7. One bee has to fly about 90,000 miles – three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey. Queen bees lay eggs in the cells of the nest, and when they hatch, they become larvae. Each colony contains only one queen, who is capable of producing 2,000 eggs a day. Honey has antiseptic properties and was historically used as a dressing for wounds and a first aid treatment for burns and cuts.

  8. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.

  9. The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed (iflscience.com), yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.

  10. Diseases Caused by Honey Bee • Varroa mites. • Acarine (tracheal) mites. • Nosema disease. • Small hive beetle. • Wax moths. • Tropilaelaps. • American foulbrood. • European foulbrood.

  11. Contact Us Website: https://back2nopest.com.au Email id:info@back2nopest.com.au Phone: 1800 441 506

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