{"id":293,"date":"2024-12-24T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T08:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natgeokids.com?p=293"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:11:43","slug":"honey-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/insects\/honey-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"10 facts about honey bees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Calling all budding &#8211; or should we say <em>buzz<\/em>-ing &#8211; young naturalists! Join <strong>National Geographic Kids<\/strong> as we get the lowdown on one of our planet&#8217;s most fascinating insects in our ten facts about <strong>honey bees<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Facts about honey bees<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104078\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-1.jpg\" alt=\"Facts about honey bees\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0Honey bees\u00a0are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The members of the hive are divided into three types:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Queen<\/strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">: One queen runs the whole hive. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive\u2019s next generation of bees. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Workers<\/strong><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">: these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Drones<\/strong>: These are the male bees, and their purpose is to mate with the new queen. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:25px\">Love animals? You&#8217;d love our magazine! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:25px\">Ask your parents to check out <strong>Nat Geo Kids magazine<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2019\/10\/National-Geographic-Kids-magazine-content-break-2.jpg\" alt=\"National Geographic Kids magazine\" class=\"wp-image-33392 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2019\/10\/National-Geographic-Kids-magazine-content-break-2.jpg 318w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2019\/10\/National-Geographic-Kids-magazine-content-break-2-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">(AD)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> \u00a0What are these <em>buzzing<\/em> bugs most famous for? Delicious <strong>honey<\/strong>! But did you know they produce honey as food stores for the hive during winter? Luckily for us, these efficient little workers produce 2-3 time more honey than they need, so we get to enjoy the tasty treat, too!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called &#8220;<strong>royal jelly<\/strong>&#8220;. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104084\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-3.jpg\" alt=\"Facts about honey bees\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-3.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-3-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at a speed of around\u00a0<strong>25km per hour<\/strong> and beat their wings <strong>200 times per second<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>6.<\/strong> Each bee has <strong>170 odorant receptors<\/strong>, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Did you know that we have a FREE downloadable <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/primary-resource\/the-buzz-about-bees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Buzz about bees&#8217; primary resource<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, all about these awesome insects? Great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents alike!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>7.<\/strong> The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, she\u2019ll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>8.<\/strong> The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to <strong>2,500<\/strong> eggs a day!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104082\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-2.jpg\" alt=\"Facts about honey bees\" width=\"635\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-2.jpg 635w, https:\/\/cdn.creatureandcoagency.com\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honeybee-facts-2-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>9.<\/strong> Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their \u2018<strong>waggle dance<\/strong>\u2019. When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source. Cool, huh?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><strong>10.<\/strong> Sadly, over the past 15 years, colonies of bees have been disappearing, and the reason remains unknown. Referred to as &#8216;colony collapse disorder&#8217;, billions of honey bees across the world are leaving their hives, never to return. In some regions, up to 90% of bees have disappeared!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We can all do our bit to support these brilliant bugs, gang! Why not\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: center;\">plant flowers rich in nectar, such as <strong>lavender<\/strong> and <strong>bluebells<\/strong>, which will help bees find the food they need? And when your family are buying honey, try to choose varieties that are <strong>locally made<\/strong>, to support our honey bees and their beekeepers!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you enjoyed learning about honey bees, check out these insect articles! Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/insects\/15-facts-about-bugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25 cool things about bugs<\/a>, discover cool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/insects\/ladybird-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ladybird facts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/insects\/ant-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ant facts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/insects\/dung-beetle-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dung beetle facts<\/a>, or find out about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/insects\/butterfly-life-cycle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the butterfly life cycle<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">What did you think of our facts about honey bees? Let us know by leaving us a comment, below!<\/h3>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Images \u24d2 Getty Images:<\/strong> Bees on honeycomb, (81154415). Picture of a honeybee on a pink flower: Photograph by Manfredxy, Dreamstime. Picture of a honeybee on a purple flower: Photograph by Daniel Vincek, Dreamstime. Picture of a honeybee on a white background: Photograph by Daniel Vincek, Dreamstime.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all budding &#8211; or should we say buzz-ing &#8211; young naturalists! Join National Geographic Kids as we get the lowdown on one of our planet&#8217;s most fascinating insects in our ten facts about honey bees! Facts about honey bees 1.\u00a0Honey bees\u00a0are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. 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