Because, for your information, I have a job.

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Really? What kind of job?

Beads!

This is a pretty solid read if bees are your thing. Did you know:
  • Honey bees communicate by ‘dancing’. They do a waggle dance which tells other bees the distance and direction of food.
  • The honey bee is the only insect which produces food eaten by humans.
  • A honey bee flies at approximately 24 kph.
  • The honey bee beats its wings 11,400 times per minute, which makes their buzzing sound.
Also check out how they eat and their lifecycle.

Rad bees.
 
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Add to that, as I found out the other day. A singe worker bee will only ever make around 1/2 a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. Which is pretty amazing when you look at how much is in a jar.
 
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Really? What kind of job?

Beads!

This is a pretty solid read if bees are your thing. Did you know:
  • Honey bees communicate by ‘dancing’. They do a waggle dance which tells other bees the distance and direction of food.
  • The honey bee is the only insect which produces food eaten by humans.
  • A honey bee flies at approximately 24 kph.
  • The honey bee beats its wings 11,400 times per minute, which makes their buzzing sound.
Also check out how they eat and their lifecycle.

Rad bees.

I would be genuinely interested if there was a chance you were telling the truth for once.

Are you

Russell Marsh

I think I can tell from the cold dead eyes and vacant expression
 
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Bees make surplus honey that we can farm, but a lot die over winter because people take more than the surplus which means they cannot survive winter.

All workers are female, the males role is to impregnate the queen and die
 
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Excuse me but how do we differentiate a queen wasp and a king bee?
Musical reference spotted.

King bees, like Pink Floyd, are rubbish.

Queen wasps, to stretch this further to the band Queen, are also garbage but for different reasons.

BEE FACTS TILL YOU FART

  1. Honey bees must gather nectar from two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
  2. One bee has to fly about 90,000 miles – three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey.
  3. The average bee will make only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
  4. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
  5. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
  6. The bee’s brain is oval in shape and about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has a remarkable capacity to learn and remember things. For example, it is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.
  7. Honey bees communicate with one another by dancing.
  8. A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honey bees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work.
  9. The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day.
  10. Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work. All they do is mate.
  11. Honey has always been highly regarded as a medicine. It is thought to help with everything from sore throats and digestive disorders to skin problems and hay fever.
  12. Honey has antiseptic properties and was historically used as a dressing for wounds and a first aid treatment for burns and cuts.
  13. The natural fruit sugars in honey – fructose and glucose – are quickly digested by the body. This is why sportsmen and athletes use honey to give them a natural energy boost.
  14. Honey bees have been producing honey in the same way for 150 million years.
  15. The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
  16. Honey lasts an incredibly long time. An explorer who found a 2000 year old jar of honey in an Egyptian tomb said it tasted delicious!
  17. The bees’ buzz is the sound made by their wings which beat 11,400 times per minute.
  18. When a bee finds a good source of nectar it flies back to the hive and shows its friends where the nectar source is by doing a dance which positions the flower in relation to the sun and hive. This is known as the ‘waggle dance.’
  19. Honey’s ability to attract and retain moisture means that it has long been used as a beauty treatment. It was part of Cleopatra’s daily beauty ritual.
  20. Honey is incredibly healthy and includes enzymes, vitamins, minerals. It’s the only food that contains “pinocembrin”, an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.
 
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Add to that, as I found out the other day. A singe worker bee will only ever make around 1/2 a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. Which is pretty amazing when you look at how much is in a jar.

Indeed. If Bees weren't so dumb they would get a proper job and just buy their honey like every one else.
 
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