Interesting facts about bees

Bitės daugeliui vis dar atrodo tiesiog mažos darbštuolės, skraidančios nuo žiedo prie žiedo ir nešančios medų. Tačiau kuo daugiau laiko praleidi šalia avilio, tuo aiškiau supranti – jų pasaulis nepaprastai sudėtingas.

Ši rūšis yra viena stabiliausių ir mažiausiai kintančių visoje ekosistemoje. Tad kodėl bites, atrodo, vis aplenkia evoliucija? Pasirodo, ne tokios jos ir paprastos, tos mūsų darbininkės. Įdomūs faktai apie bites atskleidžia sudėtingą bičių pasaulį – bitės bendrauja šokiais, palaiko idealią temperatūrą avilyje, atpažįsta šimtus kvapų ir dirba neįtikėtinu tikslumu. Visa tai pasaulyje, kuris daugeliui iš mūsų atrodo tiesiog mažas avilys pievos pakraštyje.

Štai keletas įdomių faktų kuriais mus itin žavi šios darbštuolės.

The queen bee lives for 4-5 years, while worker bees live for only 30-40 days. The queen bee's "miracle powers" were given to her during the larval stage, when worker bees fed her larva with royal jelly for much longer than other larvae. So, royal jelly - truly magical!

One worker bee circles the globe one and a half times in its lifetime and produces about 1/10 of a teaspoon of honey.

A queen bee can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day. She lays more eggs per day than she weighs. At least it's a mother!

Korys – tobulas sandėlys. Korio akutės sujungtos kartu gali talpinti daugiausia medaus naudojant mažiausiai statybinių medžiagų (vaško).

Bee pitch (propolis) laikomas vienu stipriausių natūralių bičių apsaugos ginklų nuo bakterijų ir kitų mikroorganizmų avilyje.

Bee bread – vienas iš nedaugelio bee products, natūraliai fermentuojamų pačiame avilyje.

Bees can fly at speeds of up to 25km/h and flap 200 times per second. So they could outrun any sprinter!

When a queen bee dies, she takes a new queen and breeds a new one. The best place is never empty.

The only males in the hive are drones. They do not work, have no stings and their only task is to mate with the queen. When autumn arrives, the drones are thrown out of the hive without any scruples - nobody likes a loafer.

The worker bee has about 170 odour-sensitive receptors. No other perfume manufacturer can boast that!

Since bees can't talk, they have invented an unusual way to communicate - dancing! By wiggling her tummy and walking on all fours, she tells her sisters how far away from the hive and in which direction to look for the best nectar. She calculates the trajectory and distances with her sesame seed-sized brain. A real little Einstein...

A colony is made up of 20 000 - 80 000 worker bees and only one queen. A true multiparent mother!

The queen bee decides how many eggs to lay. Drones hatch from unfertilised eggs and inherit only the queen's genes, while worker bees inherit both the queen's and the drone's genes.

Worker bees don't sleep. At night, they save energy and rest simply by not moving. Could you do that?

The Queen does not mate in the hive. She flies out to "fly", mates with 5-45 different drones and then returns. This mating is enough for her for life.

Honey is the only edible food that contains everything you need to sustain life.

Gummies išpopuliarėjo ne tik kaip saldumynai – šiandien jie vis dažniau pasirenkami kaip patogi forma vartoti bičių produktus.

Kuo medus tamsesnis – tuo jis turtingesnis. Tamsiame meduje daugiausia antioksidantų.

Bee venom is stronger than cobra venom! Fortunately, she has very little of it...

Only worker bees sting, and only when they sense a real threat. Because the sting of a worker bee is serrated like a knife, once the bee has stung it, it is unable to pull it back out. Once they lose the sting, they die. Although the queen has a stinger, which is smooth and can sting repeatedly, she rarely uses it to remove other queens.

Do you know how a bee is like a dog? It can be trained to find buried mines!

Bitė darbininkė vienu kartu gali panešti 80% kūno svorio nektaro ar pollen kiekį. Tai bent sunkumų kilnotoja.

Worker bees have two stomachs - one for foraging and one for storing nectar.

Bite - the best smart air conditioner. In winter, some worker bees "work as heaters". They keep the hive at 35°C by vibrating their abdomens. In summer, the bees flap their wings to cool the hive and keep the air circulating.

And what do you think about bees now?