Life of bees

From a human perspective, life is so complicated, complex, difficult, exciting ... From the bee's point of view, everything comes down to order, work and discipline, maximum dedication and unreserved sacrifice. Why is the story of the life of a bee so fascinating? There are some scientific facts about that, and that's really interesting..

Valuable as a bee!

Did you know that the honey bees of Apis mellifera have been producing honey for one hundred and fifty million years? They are the only insects that produce the food that we humans eat.

With incredible skill and strength, the bee manages to swing its wings 11,400 times in a minute, which is why we hear the buzzing. Honey bees have 170 odor receptors that allow them to recognize relatives, communicate within the hive, and find food. Such organization is rare. Their sense of smell is so precise that they can distinguish more than a hundred different plant varieties. These little creatures can produce an average of one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime. The fact that they visit 50 to 100 flowers in the summer also shows how valuable bees are.

A smart bee!

Despite being the size of a sesame seed, the bee's brain is capable of very complex functions and responsible tasks. Being a so-called social insect, the bee has an extremely rich "behavioral repertoire". Bees build hexagonal honeycomb cells, manipulate pollen, a powdered substance, in order to make lumps out of it, which they will place in baskets on their feet. It is also interesting that bees are able to perform a wide range of "dances" that communicate the location of food. When fighting enemies, bees can cope well and avoid injury. In addition to cleaning the nest from debris, they have perfected the technique of heating the nest by muscle contraction. Bees are not born learned, but as young learn from the elderly how to make honey. Honey bees know that the planet is round, and can calculate angles to orient themselves. Today it is quite clear that miniature brains like bees have much greater cognitive capacity than it had been assumed twenty years ago. There is explanation that bee use small bio - electric impulses in order to create sense where is a lot of precious flower powder.

The Queen bee!

The queen can live up to five years, and in rare cases she can reach old age up to the age of seven. She is also the only bee in the hive that lays eggs. The highest productivity of the queen is during the summer, when she lays up to 2,500 eggs a day. Nuts have a sting, but they almost never use it, they are mostly in the cell and not in danger. One queen, rules between 20,000 and 80,000 bees. Drones, quite rightly, in our dictionary mean idlers and lazy people who tend to enjoy themselves. It is true that drones really do nothing, they are male bees that do not have a sting and their only task is to mate with the queen. If they are getting number that is not desirable for population in hive, they've been killed by honey bees and thrown out the hive.

Honey bees must deserve a job!

Honey bees "get a job" in the hive based on their age. Honey bees are sexually underdeveloped females, and their jobs, for example, can look like this: if they are one or two days old, they spend their days cleaning the cells and start work with the cell in which they were born; when they are three to five days old, they feed on older larvae; from the sixth to the eleventh day feed the younger larvae; from the twelfth to the seventeenth day they produce wax, make "honey pots", carry food and perform funeral duties; from the eighteenth to the twenty-first day of age guards at the entrance to the hive and protect it from intruders; from the twenty-second day until death, which occurs after 40 to 45 days, they collect nectar, pollen, water, pollinate ....

A strong and healthy bee community can pollinate up to three million flowers in one day.

Courage in defending homeland hive!

Bee stings look like little harpoons with teeth. Bees attack only when their survival is threatened or when communities are in danger. The deadly mechanism of the harpoon exists to ensure maximum "burying" in the body of the opponent. an example of an insect forced to commit suicide in defense.However, the cost of losing a few worker bees paid by a bee colony in a hive is not too high if they manage to discourage the intruder who came for the honey. , lay down their lives in a fierce struggle and expose themselves to pain for the survival of the community.

This is what the life of these little creatures looks like, who are stronger, more organized and braver than much more advanced species!

Humans become totally unfair to these tiny, but very important creatures. Chemical treatment of fruit cause multiple bee hive demolition and damages to other living world. There are very dry seasons and blooming is fast ending, which means less natural food to bees.

So, people, be responsible and help these little beings to they can later help us!