The Honey Bee
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THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES:
2 sweet weeks of facts about honey bees: Last but not least… 14. Just how important are honeybees to the human diet? Typically, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, these under-appreciated workers pollinate 80 percent of our flowering crops which constitute 1/3 of everything we eat. Losing them could affect not only dietary staples such
THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES:
2 sweet weeks of facts about honey bees 13. While workers select which fertilized eggs to brood in queen or worker cells, the queen decides the sex of her young. In a mechanism of sex determination known as haplodiploidy, fertilized eggs will become female offspring, while unfertilized eggs will become males. (PBS NOVA) See our
THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES:
2 sweet weeks of facts about honey bees 11. It’s Not Easy Being Queen In one day a queen can lay her weight in eggs. She will lay one egg per minute, day and night, for a total of 1,500 eggs over a 24-hour period and 200,000 eggs in a year. Should she stop her
THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES:
2 sweet weeks of facts about honey bees 10. Bees are not fast fliers; while their wings beat over 11,000 cycles per minute, their flight speed averages only 15 miles per hour. In comparison, a true fly in the genusForcipomyiabeats its wings over 62,000 cycles per minute. The Australian dragonfly Austrophlebia costalis has been clocked
