Fact about bees

Our bees are incredible…

Bees move between plants attracted by the sweet nectar produced in their flowers, from which they make honey. They also fertilise them by transferring pollen from flower to flower which enables them to produce fruit and seeds – so they play a vital role in the plant’s very existence!
Bees work hard, traveling up to 2 miles from their hive many times a day to collect pollen and nectar to support their colonies.
Bees are truly unique. They are sociable and communicate with each other, always putting each other first. Meanwhile, they produce abundant quantities (more than they need for themselves) of the most delicious natural sweetness which has been used for millennia by very grateful humans!
Here are some other amazing facts about bees:

1. They work really hard at their jobs.

In a single day, a worker bee may visit up to 10,000 flowers, collecting drops of nectar that she uses to produce honey and feed the hive. After all her hard work, a single bee will produce less than a teaspoonful of honey in her lifetime. Throughout her typical life span of only six to eight weeks, she will fly about 36,000 miles—almost 1.5 times the circumference of the planet.

2. They dance to show each other where to find food.

Workers use the “round dance” when nectar is less than 100 meters (328 feet) from the hive and the “waggle dance” when it’s found farther away. They will dance in a particular pattern to indicate where the nectar is located in relation to the sun.

3. They have very specific roles in supporting the colony.

Three types of bees make up a hive. The queen bee’s main role is to reproduce, laying around 1,500 eggs daily. Worker bees keep the hive clean, feed the queen and baby bees, guard the hive, and collect nectar from flowers. Drone bees leave the hive to find a queen to mate with and start a new hive.

4. Only female bees can sting—and they don’t want to sting you.

Since one of their roles as worker is to protect the colony, female bees will only sting if they think you’re a threat. A worker bee dies if she uses her stinger, so she will use it only as a last resort. Respect a bee’s space and she’ll happily fly along.

5. Honeybees have a powerful sense of smell.

They use odor receptors located in their antennae to identify and trace the scent of nearby pollen- and nectar-rich flowers. They also use their sense of smell to find other bees.

6. They are meticulously clean.

Bees bathe themselves in order to keep their colony free from any viruses that might spread throughout it.

7. Without them, our ecosystem would collapse.

Bees pollinate many of the plants that humans eat, but their work is also essential to the survival of many other plants and animals. The vast biodiversity that characterizes life on Earth would simply cease to exist without them.