To Bee or not to Bee - scientific name - Apis mellifera

Did You Know? The honey bee has been around for 30 million years. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. Honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.It takes about 556 workers to gather 1 pound of honey from about 2 million flowers. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen.Worker honey bees are female, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.The queen bee lives for about 2-3 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day.The male honey bees are called drones, and they do no work at all, have no stinger, all they do is mating.

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[redpunk]

@ham1510 i'm pretty sure he's trying to save something that's invasive

[redpunk]

aren't honey bee colonies that die from ccd being displace by native bees? because there are a shitload of bees besides the honey bee and i think some of them might actually be more prolific in pollinating things

[akirafactor]

Why are the bees dying? Clothianidin from Bayer.

[einsteinek]

It looks like there are no flowers allaround? Btw the bees look like very nice and peacefull on your hand=) greetings from middle Europe!

[green2lean]

I love it. Let's start a "safe the weeds" club.

[1953bluebell]

Thank you wish there were more people like you guys on this planet.

[ham1510]

THanks for saving the Earth.I'm try to do my part too.

[terramartecom]

nice thanks