Bees are the saviors of the world!
🦟 Bees pollinate about 80% of flowering plants
Two-thirds of agricultural crops cannot grow without bees.✔️
Bees should not be considered separate organisms
Bees are such social animals that their colonies can be called superorganisms and cannot live outside the family of individual bees.✔️
A bee has 5 eyes, but it cannot distinguish the color red
Bees have two types of eyes on their heads – three small simple eyes responsible for detecting light levels and two compound eyes.✔️
Bees make different noises depending on their emotions
The noise of insects is caused by the movement of their wings – for a bee, this is up to 440 wing beats per second.✔️
Apiology is the study of honey bees (Apis mellifera). Bees attracted attention as an object of research in the 17th century, and they have been bred since several thousand years BC. Currently, there are more than 30 breeds of bees.
During the day, a worker bee can make 10 flights and explore an area of about 12 hectares.✔️
Like all animals, bees get sick. They have their own infections, including viral ones (for example, Israeli acute paralysis virus), various parasites. One of the most common diseases of bees is Varroa destructor parasite.✔️
Over the past year, many campaigns have sprung up to draw attention to the decline of bees. Activists and scientists are up in arms for one reason: Since 2006, beekeepers have been watching the mass die-off of their bees. In 2019, more than 40% of bees died in the United States. In Europe and Russia, these numbers are lower, but this phenomenon is still observed. Bees are dying due to environmental disasters and uncontrolled use of pesticides.✔️
The disappearance of bees can lead to a decrease in the number of flowering plants. ✔️
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