An Overview of Bees

First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Bianca and I'm a bee. The aim of this blog is to try and educate you about my family and I, and show you how buzy my life can bee.


Here are some basic facts about bees and honey and little bit of history about us too.

• Bees originated from Asia and started spreading 300,000 years ago, across Europe and Africa.
• We fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat our wings 200 times per second.
• We can see all colours except red.
• Honeybees can only sting once, because their stingers are barbed and tear off when they try to get away.
• We are the only insect in the world that make food that humans can eat. (You should grateful!)
• One bee can only make 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire life, which is five or six weeks long.
• I have a very big family, or colony ranging between 20,000 and 60,000 bees, but there's only one queen bee.
•  Honey is one of the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals and water.

My family is divided into three different types of members - the queen, workers and drones.

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1. Queen Bee- the only role of the queen is to lay as many eggs as possible. She is also responsible for regulating our behaviours, by producing chemicals so that everything runs smoothly in the hive. 
2. Workers- these bees are all female and we are the only ones that you see outside of the hive. We forage for food (nectar and pollen from flowers) and are responsible for making honey. We also build, look after and protect our hive.
3. Drones- the third class in our family are the males - drones. Several hundred drones live in the hive during spring and summer but during the winter we kick them out when we go into survival mode!