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10 Amazing Things About Bees That You Never Knew Before

Nature is one perfectly created peace of art with millions of things and creatures living in it.  We haven’t seen or we don’t even know about the majority of these things, unless we devoted our entire life studying the plants and living things around us.

One of the most incredible beings on planet are bees. They are one of the main reasons that our crops and greenery can bloom, without them, we’d be lost.

Nowadays people more and more aware of how important bees are to our planet, therefore they are advocating for their protection. However, most of us still don’t know what actually goes on inside of the hive, trust me, a lot.

The following 10 facts about bees and the lives they have, will give you an appreciation for these hardworking insects.

Have you ever been afraid of bees? Maybe you’ll finally change your tune after reading these impressive facts.

1. The Queen Used To Be Known As The King

But the Dutch scientist, Jan Swammerdam, took the responsibility to dissect one and found ovaries, so he changed the name.

2. Male Drone Bees Live Only To Mate With The Queen

After this, they meet the end of their lives, because their lower abdomen ruptures when their endophallus is left inside the queen. These male bees are called drones, so if there is a food shortage in the hive, the worker bees kick them out first.

3. Worker Bees Are Willing To Die For Their Sisters

Bees are known to defend their hive from any kind of danger, like wasps, so that they can protect the rest of the bees that are inside – even to death.

4. There Are Specific Bees That Remove The Dead From The Hive

Every one of the bee has a specific job throughout the day, such as building the comp or storing food, but the undertaker has only one job – to respond to the scent of the dead inside the hive and take them out so that the narrow space doesn’t get hammed up.

5. New Queen Bees Must Fight To The Death

After the reigning queen dies, the workers raise a new queen. Yet, they make multiple new queens, and if two of them hatch simultaneously, they must fight to death.

But  then, the queen that doesn’t have to fight to death still has an obligation to kill the unborn queens. The picture above shows the newly hatched queen stinging an unhatched queen.

6. Bee Wings Move Unbelievably Fast

Scientist have spent years and years in order to figure out how bees use their wings to fly, and found out that it’s due to their very rapid wingbeat. With a lot of power, at 230 times per second bees flap with their wings, but they aren’t that efficient when flying conditions are less than ideal, for instance when carrying a heavy load.

7. Bees Can Recognize Faces

It’s true. Bees have been found out to recognize and distinguish between faces, both of humans and other bees. If you are mean to a bee once, that bee can recognize you later very well.

8. The Queen Only Mates At One Time In Her Life

The mating process can last for a couple of days, and while that time lasts she can mate with around 70 drone bees. Yet this only happens once in her life. The sperm she collects is kept in a special organ and the reserves are used for her remaining years as queen.

9. Honey Bees Aren’t The Only Kind Of Bee

Did you know that there are about 20,000 different species of bees? Yes, the honey bee is not the only one. Additionally, not all species live in hives as social bees. Actually, many other varieties are independent insects.

10. Bees Are Not The Original Pollinators

Before bees’ bodies evolved and became specialized pollen collectors, other insects, like beetles for instance, pollinated flowers in smaller numbers. As time was passing by, both flowers and bees evolved and became better at pollination and gathering nectar.

Did you like these interesting facts about bees?

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