AMERICAN HISTORY
AMERICAN
HISTORY
A CAPTIVATING GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
CIVIL WAR, CHICAGO, ROARING TWENTIES, GREAT DEPRESSION,
PEARL HARBOR, AND GULF WAR
The Honey Bee
The Honey Bee Honey bees are the only insects that produce food that is consumed by humans - honey. They are social insects. A colony of bees includes a queen, drones, and workers. There is only one queen per hive. She is the largest bee in the colony and may live up to five years. She will lay up to 2500 eggs per day and has the ability to control whether she lays male or female eggs. If the queen dies, the workers vwill create a new queen by selecting a young larva and feeding it a special food called "royal jelly". This will enable the larva to develop into a fertile queen. All worker bees are females; they cannot reproduce and live for about six weeks. A colony can have 50,000- 60,000 workers who collect nectar to make honey. An average worker bee produces about 1/12h of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles and visit an average of four million flowers to collect 1 kg of honey. A bee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collect...
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