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Interesting facts about bees

There are about 21 thousand species of bees in the world.

Bees from one hive harvest about 150 kg of honey per year.

Throughout its life, one bee produces about one twelfth teaspoon of honey.

Bees are common on all continents except Antarctica (see interesting facts about Antarctica).

More than a trillion flowers are pollinated by bees around the world every day.

In order to make 1 kg of honey, bees need to visit about eight million flowers.

Bees easily find their way home, even if they fly very far from their native hive in search of pollen and nectar.

The average bee swarm weighs 6-8 kilograms.
One cell contains on average about one hundred thousand pollen particles.

Most of all bees collect pollen in the Siberian taiga (see interesting facts about the taiga).

During the winter, a bee colony eats on average about 30-35 kg of honey.

The bee is able to recognize the smell of a flower with nectar at a distance of more than a kilometer.

A bee can lift thirty to forty times its own weight, about as much as an ant (see interesting facts about ants).
A bee can visit five to seven thousand flowers per day.

Bees communicate with each other using body movements and certain pheromones.

As the finds of archaeologists have shown, the ancient Egyptians knew beekeeping about seven thousand years ago.

In Sri Lanka, some dishes include bees (see interesting facts about Sri Lanka).

Natural bee honey is included in the diet of astronauts.

Having filled the abdomen with nectar, the bee loses its ability to sting.
Bees from one hive cannot fly into another, otherwise they will immediately be attacked by its defenders - other bees.

Bees have five eyes.

For the winter, bees hibernate.

Bees of most species, unlike wasps, die immediately after releasing a sting.

A queen bee under favorable conditions can lay up to a thousand eggs daily.

Bees are used in the search for explosives, and they show even better results than specially trained dogs.

Bees are persistent creatures ...
Bee industriousness has long become a household name: these insects really work constantly. A worker bee can make 10 flights per day and explore an area of ​​about 12 hectares. The optimized device of their body allows bees to withstand the load, which also protects them from large temperature changes and squeezing. The bees that lived in the hives on the roof of Notre Dame even survived last year's cathedral fire and successfully bred their offspring.