Bee facts?

my 11y.o. daughter is doing a topic about Bees and she would like one big fantastic fact about bees that not many people know. She's got one about their eggs, one about their brains, one about how many species there are & a couple more I forgot

Can anyone

 

That they are descendants of a very ancient species of ant?

 

really???

 

*A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Rusty

 

Hi

Male Honey bee " Drone" does not have a sting (fact)

Spruce

 

They have their own Planet.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Melissa_Majoria

 

That it is the old queen which leaves the hive with the first swarm, and she generally goes before any of the new queens have hatched. Also it is the workers that decide what the hive does, not the queen.


Bet her teacher doesn't know that

 

thanks for all your facts, peeps. I shall let the young one know. Keep the facts coming, the homework's not due in till late next week

 

Some bumble bees are like Cuckoos and lay their eggs in a another bumble bee colony (fact)

Spruce

 

If a bee gets stuck in a car & taken too far from its hive, it will go to another hive & ask to join.

A bit like a certain GC member who forgot our name and went to another Gardening Forum

 

Bees are awesome, that's a fact in itself.

 

He's already replied on this thread my friend.