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Bees have basket like features on their hind legs that they use to carry pollen. I've read that one bee can carry 40mg of pollen at a time. They fly several thousand miles to gather it all, and can visit as many as 1,500 flowers to find on load's worth. Then they have to fly it all the way home. That's probably the reason for the crazy way they fly; they're staggering because worker bees only weigh about 90mg, so they are carrying almost half their weight!
In case you don't feel like reading an entire paragraph of nerdiness, I'll just be blunt here and say that one bee can hold 40mg of pollen at a time.
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What do ants eat and drink?
Bees collect pollen, make and eat honey. Anything that can get to them: birds, bears, raccons, spiders, ants, wasps, frogs/toads - it's a dangerous life! For a complete list (over 20), check out Wikipedia on "European Honey Bee".
Can bees be domesticated?
It could be said the bees in beekeepers' hives have been domesticated, but that's not really true. Bees are very much creatures of instinct and they react to stimuli, but they don't have the brain power to reason and they almost certainly don't recognize the beekeeper as 'their owner'.Beekeepers learn to manipulate the bees' environment to make the bees do what is wanted. This usually works, but not always -- there are many books about beekeeping, but the bees can't read so don't always do what is expected.Even in law, bees are classified as wild animals, not farm stock or domestic. And they don't make good pets!
Are hornets more dangerous than bees?
Hornets are much bigger and their sting is much more painful than bees. Hornets can also sting more than once because it doesn't detach form its body unlike bees. Hornets tend to be more agressive than bees, but they are much less aggresive in general than wasps.
How do bees help the earth?
YES. Honey bees help people cause they make honey 4 us 2 eat and they also take pollen 2 help grow flowers, so no one should be afraid of them. Except for the faq that they sting the **** out of you if you get them pissed =) remember that
Why are honey bees essential to human life as you know it today?
Many plants only get pollenated by honeybees. The bees collect pollen on their legs from a male flower and fly to a female flower where some of the pollen is rubbed off on the pistils of the female flower. The female plant is then able to produce whatever fruit it produces. The list of plants that are pollentated in this way is long. As much as 90% of all plants are pollenated by insects. Honeybees pollenate many plants important to man inluding clover, which is essential to the beef cattle industry and fruit bearing plants like apple and orange trees which provide many essential vitamins.
What do bumble bee eat?
Bumble bees live on pretty much the same diet as honey bees: pollen and nectar (the basis of honey).
In a worker bee's life time how much pollen does it produce?
Bees don't produce pollen, they collect it from flowers.
How much pollen can a bee hold?
alot.There is a uncountable amount of pollen.
What shape flowers do bees like best?
its not the shape of the flower its how much pollen is in the flower
Does honey attract bees?
It's not as much Honey as Pollen that attracts bee, if there is honey around and bees are far from ther ehive they may rest in the hive that has honey in it or if the is honey bees may make a hive near by because honey means pollen.
Honey bees collect?
The worker bees go out to collect pollen and nectar which they bring back to the Hive for food and to make honey. Honey bees eat honey and pollen as their primary food, but they also gather liquids and juices from plant and fruit exudates. When honey bees come across insects that secrete honeydew, they gather the liquid and store it as honey. When pollen, nectar, or honeydew aren't available, honey bees can collect and store plant spores and dusty animal feed as well.
What eats honey bees?
Bees eat honey.Bees ingest the nectar of plants and flowers only to regurgitate it (after it has mixed with enzymes in the bees stomach) as honey.The honey is placed into cells and capped with wax. In order for bees to survive the winter they have to have sufficient honey stored in the hive, because that is their food. Bees will also eat sugar syrup (thick sugar water).They do also eat pollen, but its not a main food source and is actually mixed with honey and mostly used for royal jelly that the larva eat.Worker bees eat pollen and honey. The queen bee eats royal jelly.
Do all bees store honey?
No. Social bees in the Genus Apis have huge colonies and so create a lot of honey which is basically supposed to be their over-winter food supply. Bumblebees have much smaller colonies and so have only a few thimvlefuls of honey in their nest. Mining bees that nest in the ground or carpenter bees in dead wood leave their larvae with a pollen "loaf" which is a small pellet of flower pollen and nectar mixed together.
What roles does bees have?
Bees serve to fly from flower to flower. They gather nectar and pollen. Some of the pollen brushes off on stigmas and fertilizes the flowers. Much of the fruit we eat is pollenated that way. They also use the nectar they collect to produce honey. We also enjoy eating honey. They serve those two roles.
What is the Romanian 'albinฤ' in English?
"Bee" is an English equivalent of "albină."Bees tend to be much admired or much feared by people. Admirers may be impressed by bee flight patterns, hive management and pollen and nectar collection. Those who fear bees tend to base their reactions on allergies to bee stings. But in reality, not all bees sting.
How much pollan do bees collect?
It depends on the flower they land on. Some flowers will have a lot of pollen, while others don't have much. The bee usually collects at least several hundred grains.
What is the role of the flower in the life cycle of a plant?
Pollen. Pollen is what allows plants to reproduce by cross-pollenation, much like male and female in the human species. The pollen is distributed by bees and other insects, or by the wind shaking the flower and releasing pollen to be born to other plants.
