Facts About Bees You Probably Didnt Know
11. Honey bees know the world is round and can even calculate angles
even if they have never flown to those angles for food
12. It takes 8 bees all their life to make one single teaspoon full of honey
A teaspoon of honey to make your tea a bit sweeter
13. To produce a single jar of honey
foraging honey bees have to travel the human equivalent of three times around the world
Still complaining about your job?
14. Honeybees communicate with each other by dancing
They live in a colony being social insects and have to express themselves somehow dancing is not the worst way is it?
15. Bees normally buzz in the key of A
but when they are tired they buzz in the key of E
Oh yeah we know the feeling
16. Honeybees are assigned jobs based on their age
Those who are just 12 days old usually clean cells trees pollination is the task for the oldest ones
17. Once the Queen is deemed unfit to serve
Once the Queen is deemed unfit to serve worker bees cluster around her body until she dies from overheating
The deadly cuddle is the destiny of those Queens which are too old to serve or have a desease
18. Honey badgers emit smelly suffocating secretions from their anal glands to fumigate hives so bees leave their honey for them
If they had mobile phones they could simply make a call
19. Bees and butterflies like drinking crocodile tears
To their delight crocodiles often cry when eat
20. Bees dont hibernate in the winter
Instead they form a ball in their hives and vibrate to keep warm
Thats right icy and cold death will come if they stop vibrating
