Did you know that honey bees help flowers, fruits and vegetables grow, by transferring pollen between the male and female parts? This action allows plants to grow seeds and fruit.

Honey bees are have the ability to fly at a speed of 25 km per hour! Their wings can beat 200 times per second. Impressive?

The bees that we see outside are the workers. All of them are female, bearing the role to forage for food, build their hive, clean & circulate air by beating of their wings.

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Waggle Dance

Whenever a bee discover a great source of pollen, they go back to the hive so that they can recruit other bees from the colony to the patch. For communicating the information, they use a special dance called "the Waggle Dance".
The bee at first tries to gather attention through special movement of her wings, then she gives them a taste of the gatherings and by using the special dance, the bee shows how far the flower is located and the direction it is located!

Check out below a link with more information and a very interesting video!

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/bee-dance-game/introduction.html

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Why bees matter?

Something to consider: Honeybees (with other bees, birds and bats) are responsible for pollinating 35% of the leading food crops world wide!

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More information at researchgate.net

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