The fact of Honeybees and honey
The fact of Honeybees and Honey
Honey bees are social insects. Honey bees are an example for social behavior, activeness, leadership, and teamwork They live in a colony. Anytime they will be very active and hardworking. They help in cross-pollination.They collect nectar. Beekeeping is an excellent industry in some counties. Keeping of honey bee is known as apiculture and it is very beneficial.
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In a honeycomb, there are three types of honey bees
Queen Bee
Male Bee
worker Bee
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Queen Bee
Queen bees are big in size. There is only one Queen bee in a hive. The maximum life-span of the Queen bee is about two years.
Male bees
Male bees are smaller than the Queen bee but bigger than the workers. They help only in reproduction.They are also called Drones.
Worker bees
The worker bees do a lot of work, such as constructing the honeycomb, collecting the nectar, protecting the comb from enemies. The worker bees are very active sterile females. The maximum lifespan of the worker bee is 28-38 days.
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KInds of Bees are
- Mountain bees 2.Little bees 3. Indian bees.
Uses of Honey
Honey is very tasty. It has medicinal properties, too. Pepper added to honey and ingested cures cold and cough. It has high nutritional value. It is a good cure for anaemia.It also heals ulcers in the intestines.
The composition of honey is
Water --------------------------- 17%
Glucose ---------------------------- 31%
Fructose ----------------------------- 38%
Maltose ----------------------------- 10%
Albumin ----------------------------- 2%
inorganic salt ------------------------ 1%
Vitamins and calcium ------------ 1%
Additional info
The honey bees flab their 200 - 230 times per second, this produces a buzzing sound.
To collect 425 gms of honey, the honey bees have to suck the nectar of 20 lakhs of flowers.
Honey does not get spoiled for years.
There are 3200 calories of energy in 1kg of honey.
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interesting info on the bees, the types of casts and such.
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I really love honey!especially for my calamansi juice. Lucky you did not get stung.
Oh, that is 'Honey' news, thank you!
Woww you are really great when taking photos of friends bees
Be careful friends with bees when in the sting is very dangerous, I was not able to take photos of bees like that @kunani
it's so sad that they're dying because of us
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