Rockin Pink Bee
by Peggy Franz
Title
Rockin Pink Bee
Artist
Peggy Franz
Medium
Photograph - Photography/macro
Description
I captured this on such a beautiful pink flower.Fu Facts about Honey Bees There are three types of bees in the hive Queen, Worker and Drone.The queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day during her 3 or 4 year lifetime. This daily egg production may equal her own weight. She is constantly fed and groomed by attendant worker bees. fly at 15 miles per hour.Honey bees' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive.Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.Honeybees have five eyes, 3 small ones on top of the head and two big ones in front. They also have hair on their eyes!
Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents).
Honeybees never sleep!
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August 28th, 2013
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