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Honey Bee Facts:
U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers found that honeybee colonies declined by 29 percent between September 2008 and early April.
Over the past 50 years, the honeybee population in the U.S. has been cut in half.
Brain Smaller than the period at the end of a sentence, the bee brain owes its versatility to perhaps 200 polypeptides that drive behavior. At least 36 genes produce chemicals.
Pathogen resistance - The bee's genes do not give it a very powerful immune system, surprising in so communal a species. The bee has yet undiscovered ways of staying healthy.
Royal jelly - Adult bees secrete this protein mix, and all young bees are fed a portion of it. But an exclusive diet of royal jelly can transform an ordinary bee into an egg-laying queen.
Outer body The exterior of the bee is not particularly thick, a genetic adaptation that probably arose as a result of hive living, which keeps bees safer than other, more solitary insects.
Dull taste - Bees are poorly equipped with taste genes, another likely result of the hive, since anything one bee eats has probably been proved safe by another.
Stinger - When deployed, it is left in the victim; the bee dies soon after, but the sac pumps poison for up to 20 minutes.
Sharp smell - The new genome studies have located the genes that give the bee its acute sense of smell. Smell is vital in an insect that uses pheromones both to communicate locations and to indicate rank.
A honeybee has to travel over 55,000 miles and visits approx. 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour.
Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including water.
A typical beehive makes more than 400 pounds of honey per year
Approximately 7-8 pounds of honey are consumed by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
Honeybees are a great scientific mystery because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years even though the world has changed around them.
Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive.
A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
A honeybee will flap its wings about 11,400 times per minute creating the "buzz" that you hear.
Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
Honeybees are entirely herbivorous when they forage for nectar and
pollen, but can cannibalize their own brood when stressed.
Honey speeds the healing process and combats infections.
Honey never spoils.
It would take about 1 ounce of honey to fuel a honeybee's flight around the world.
Honeybee colonies have unique odors that members flash like ID cards at the hive's front door, so the guard bees can recognize the entering bees.
Honeybees are responsible for approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.
U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers found that honeybee colonies declined by 29 percent between September 2008 and early April.
Over the past 50 years, the honeybee population in the U.S. has been cut in half.
Brain Smaller than the period at the end of a sentence, the bee brain owes its versatility to perhaps 200 polypeptides that drive behavior. At least 36 genes produce chemicals.
Pathogen resistance - The bee's genes do not give it a very powerful immune system, surprising in so communal a species. The bee has yet undiscovered ways of staying healthy.
Royal jelly - Adult bees secrete this protein mix, and all young bees are fed a portion of it. But an exclusive diet of royal jelly can transform an ordinary bee into an egg-laying queen.
Outer body The exterior of the bee is not particularly thick, a genetic adaptation that probably arose as a result of hive living, which keeps bees safer than other, more solitary insects.
Dull taste - Bees are poorly equipped with taste genes, another likely result of the hive, since anything one bee eats has probably been proved safe by another.
Stinger - When deployed, it is left in the victim; the bee dies soon after, but the sac pumps poison for up to 20 minutes.
Sharp smell - The new genome studies have located the genes that give the bee its acute sense of smell. Smell is vital in an insect that uses pheromones both to communicate locations and to indicate rank.
A honeybee has to travel over 55,000 miles and visits approx. 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour.
Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including water.
A typical beehive makes more than 400 pounds of honey per year
Approximately 7-8 pounds of honey are consumed by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
Honeybees are a great scientific mystery because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years even though the world has changed around them.
Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive.
A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
A honeybee will flap its wings about 11,400 times per minute creating the "buzz" that you hear.
Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
Honeybees are entirely herbivorous when they forage for nectar and
pollen, but can cannibalize their own brood when stressed.
Honey speeds the healing process and combats infections.
Honey never spoils.
It would take about 1 ounce of honey to fuel a honeybee's flight around the world.
Honeybee colonies have unique odors that members flash like ID cards at the hive's front door, so the guard bees can recognize the entering bees.
Honeybees are responsible for approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.
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