Category: Fun Facts
05
Jul
Fun Fact #5
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While other honeybees in colony are fed with “bee bread”, Queen is fed with royal jelly entire life. “Bee bread” is mixture of honey and...
05
Jul
Fun Fact #4
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Width of cell in which larva is laid determines if Queen would lay male (unfertilized) or female (fertilized egg).
05
Jul
Fun Fact #3
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Unlike humans, honeybees are born with gray hair, which changes color over time.
01
Jul
Fun Fact #2
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Male honeybee is called drone. They are born from unfertilized eggs. Since they don’t have father, they carry almost exactly same genetic material of queen.
01
Jul
Fun Fact #1
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All honeybees which you see on blossoms are female bees. Female honeybees do all work about production of honey and maintaining of hive.