Started keeping bees

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Oh.... I didnt know that..
That's sad

 

Bees don't have a long life !

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Interesting read:

Honey bees are probably the best known social bees. Workers live only about six weeks on average, and drones die immediately after mating. Queen bees, however, are quite long-lived compared to other insects or even other bees. A queen bee has an average productive lifespan of two to three years, during which she may lay up to 2,000 eggs per day. Over her lifetime, she can easily produce over 1 million offspring. Though her productivity will decline as she ages, the queen honey bee can live up to five years.

As the queen ages and her productivity declines, worker bees will prepare to replace her by feeding royal jelly to several young larvae. When a new queen is ready to take her place, the workers usually kill their old queen by smothering and stinging her. Although this sounds rather callous and gruesome, it's necessary to the survival of the colony.​

Wow!

 

That is interesting @Toy
Thanks for sharing

 

And the Queen only mates ones. Workers come from fertilised eggs amd drones from unfertilised eggs. The Queen drops the specific eggs depending on the measurements of the cel they're laid in (workers are smaller, drones are bigger).

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Their whole lifespan and social behaviour is amazing

 

It certainly is. We humans could learn a lot of them hahaha.

Be a bee !

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Not about their lifespan btw ! hahaha

6 weeks mmmmm

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I think there are a lot of things that humans can learn from nature....

 

That's so cool! My dad has always wanted to keep bees, although hes highly allergic. Their are 2 natural hives of African bee(I believe) in the veld near us. On one occasion I found one of he hives was pillaged. I was really sad until I found the swarm in a tree and a couple of days later they moved to a new tree stump.

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