24. Cuddle time
Cuddle time
In summer there are up to 70,000 bees in a beehive, but in winter their number drops drastically to around 10,000 animals. They gather around the queen and maintain a core temperature of 35 degrees in the cluster.
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23. Cargo Haulers
Cargo Haulers
Foragers, i.e worker bees that leave the hive to collect nectar, can transport 50 to 70 microliters of flower nectar to the hive in their honey stomachs. That's not much less than her own body weight of 82 milligrams
22. Teamwork
Teamwork
Can small bees kill hostile wasps or hornets? Yes, they form a cluster around the intruder and, by trembling their flight chest muscles, generate so much heat that the enemy dies.
21. Omnipresent?
Omnipresent?
There are more than 20,000 different species of bees and they can be found everywhere in the world except Antarctica.
20. Different perspectives
Different perspectives
Despite the many eyes, the bee cannot see red, but can perceive colors in the ultraviolet range. They recognize color patterns on the petals, which, in a sense, show them where to land. For example, rapeseed flowers, which are yellow to us, look patterned to bees. In contrast, bees see white flowers in color.
19. Role model effect II
Role model effect II
In 1995, the space shuttle “Challenger” had a special cargo on board: bees got flown into space to examine their honeycomb structures in weightless space. To do this, baby bees were separated from the rest of the colony in order to observe them building wax cells. Worker bees were also observed repairing damaged honeycombs.
18. Busy Bee
Busy Bee
For every gram of nectar, the bee needs 20,000 - 50,000 trips, on each of which it can transport 50 mg of nectar in its honey bladder.
17. Role model effect I
Role model effect I
Did you know that the highly efficient collection method of the workers of a bee colony is used as a model in logistics processes, computer programs and social networks?
15. Orbiting the Earth
Orbiting the Earth
The collectors move several kilometers away from the hive in search of nectar. A bee colony can fly a total of up to 36 million kilometers in one year. That corresponds to no less than 900 orbits of the earth.
