Bees are some of the most fascinating creatures on this planet and offer humanity a perfect representation of a sustainable being. Not only do they make their own homes out of a substance their body makes, but they also give far more back to the world than they take. Human beings have a lot to learn from the hidden lives of bees.
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0:00 - Why Most People Have Never Seen A Male Honey Bee
0:40 - The Reproductive Process of Honey Bees
2:11 - How Bees Govern The Colony Democratically
3:00 - The Hidden World of Honey Bees
Transcript:
Most people have never seen a male honeybee before. And that’s just because a honeybee colony is about 95% female and the amount of male bees can actually fluctuate throughout the year. So when we need male bees around to mate with a queen, the colony will produce more male bees. They stay in the hive or they leave and they go to drone congregation areas to mate with a queen. In the winter, when there aren’t as many resources available to the bees, the female bees will kick all the male bees out of the hive and they’ll either starve or freeze to death.
Bees live a very short lifespan, so in the spring and summer, when the bees are working their hardest, the female worker bees will only live about six weeks. In the winter, when they’re not doing quite as much, and when we need more bees to make it through the winter, they’ll live about six months and their bodies actually change in the winter. The bees that are born later in the year and need to make it through the winter will have more fat bodies on them, so that they can make it through the dearth when there’s nothing in bloom and when bees are living off the honey that they collected or stored in their hive earlier in the year.
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