Bees are not afraid of death at all. 1,100 bees travel 90,000 miles to collect approximately 1000 kilogram of honey. Which is about three times the orbit of moon!
If you count the blossoms, you can see that 4 million
flowers must be pollinated in order to produce 1 kilogram of honey. A
successful season results in the collection of roughly 55 kilograms of honey.
We can learn how diligent worker bees are from this data.
On the other hand, the queen bee only eats and eggs!
The queen lays 1500 to 2500 eggs per day. The nature of male
bees is quite peculiar. They do no work in life, even the worker bees have to
feed them. Their only goal in life is to meet the queen bee!
Every day during the mating season at noon the most capable
male bees of the house gather in a certain place called the male congregation!
The queen bee departs the chaff at the same moment for what
is known as "the meeting flight."
The queen bee bursts into the male gathering place. Upon her
arrival, she immediately releases a unique perfume that attracts a large number
of male bees. Soon after, the queen bee mates in flight with her preferred
male. Queen bees often mate with up to 18–20 male bees!
Strangely, the male bee's endophorias, or genital organ,
ruptures during mating, and the male bee instantly dies. This meeting is
referred to as "The Dramatic Sexual Suicide" for this reason.
A hive consists of only one queen bee. The hive is built
around the queen.
If a female bee is born from an egg, the worker bees hide
the baby bee from the queen. Strangely, the male bees 'If the queen notices,
the baby female bee is sure to die. When the baby queen bee grows up, the two
queens fight. It opens two paths. Either die in battle (one kills the other and
takes control of the hive) or the two separate and build two separate hives.
If a queen bee unexpectedly dies, the news is known to all
worker bees within 15 minutes and they collectively take the initiative to
create a new queen bee.
You'll be astonished to learn about a few more odd
statistics, including the fact that it takes 2 million blooms to produce
500 grams of honey. A worker bee can produce half a teaspoon of honey in its
lifetime. Another interesting thing is that honey is the only food in the world
that never rots!!!
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