Interesting Facts About Honey Bee

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Facts About Honey Bee
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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.
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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.
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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 hives next
generation of bees. The queen also produces
chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other
bees.
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     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.
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     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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Diseases Caused by Honey Bee

• Varroa mites.
• Acarine (tracheal) mites.
• Nosema disease.
• Small hive beetle.
• Wax moths.
• Tropilaelaps.
• American foulbrood.
• European foulbrood.

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