My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise His holy name forever and ever. Psalm 145:21 Amazing facts about bees. 1. Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses, 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, 2 pairs of wings, a nectar pouch and a stomach. 2. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. This exceptional “smell” allows them to recognize others from the same hive, communication within the hive and locating flowers that are producing nectar. Their sense of smell is so precise that it could tell the difference between hundreds of floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from yards away. 3. The honey bee’s wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles and as fast as 15 miles per hour. 4. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. 5. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee’s flight around the world. 6. The queen bee can live up to 5 years and its role is to fill the hive with eggs. She is the busiest in the summer when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, laying up to 2,000 eggs per day. The queen has control over whether she lays male or female eggs. If she uses sperm to fertilize the egg, the larva that hatches is female. If the egg is left unfertilized, the larva will be male. 7. A colony of bees consists of 20,000 – 60,000 bees and one queen. Worker bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work. 8. The bee’s brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency. 9. A honey bee visits 50 to 90 flowers during a collection trip. 10. The males (also called drones), have no stinger and do not work. All they do is mate with the queen. In fact, before winter the females will force the males out of the hive to make sure there is enough honey.
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