5 Fun Facts About Bees!
All Worker Bees are Female! The Hive comprises of 3 types of bees: Worker, Drone, and the Queen bee! Worker bees (the gatherers of honey) are bees who are incapable of reproducing, hence they are all females! Honey bee workers gather pollen into the pollen baskets on their back legs and carry it back to the hive where it is used as food for the developing brood . As weird as it sounds, bees mate in the sky! Male bees are called drones, and their only purpose is to reproduce with the queen. They are stingless, unlike the queen and worker bees! Bees mate high in the sky. Afterwards the male bee loses his reproductive organs and dies :( Even drones that survive the mating flight are ejected from their nests, as they have served their sole purpose by mating. The animal kingdom sure is practical... After stinging you, the bee will die! When a honeybee stings, it dies a gruesome death. The bee’s stinger is structured in such a way that on...