Our trip to Bohol Bee Farm inspired me to write this post about this amazing insect. Since I met them they kept bugging me with ideas and thoughts I wanted to write :) Here are some of the facts I learned during our guided tour:
- Honeybees are social and cooperative insects.
- Honeybees are classified in 3 types - workers, queen and drones
- Female honeybees are the worker bees - they search for food; build honeycomb; feed the queen and the larvae and protect the hive.
- Queen bee can lay up to 2000 eggs/day and can live for 4 - 5 years
- Male honeybees also called "drones" makes no honey, doesn't sting. Their only task is to mate with the queen
- Honeybees are the best engineers they make hives in layers of perfect hexagonal shaped cells
- They are fighters, a female honeybee stings to defend herself even if it means dying
- They can fly 24 km/hour and their wings beat 200 times/second
- During search for food, if a honeybee flew miles away, they can still return to their colony by using their exceptional sense of smell
- Any flower visited by a honeybee to get nectar is edible for human beings
- They use a pattern of dancing to communicate with one other. I find this very impressive because in spite of the fact that they can't talk they maintain an organized colony and cooperation with one another :)
I don't understand but everytime I saw a honeycomb in pictures and videos I always got goosebumps. Our Bohol Bee Farm trip is not an exception, seeing an actual beehive, honeybees buzzing around and the layer-layer cells of honeycomb is a remarkable experience for me. This bee experience bee-dazzles me :D
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