What is the honeybee waggle dance? Honeybees do a waggle dance to communicate the distance and the direction away from the hive of a patch of flowers. It demonstrates that bees can remember information, communicate that information, and that other bees can understand it. It is a fairly complex type of communication. When you think […]
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Why do bees buzz? Bees buzz because of the speed with which they beat their wings. All insects with wings make a sound, but some of them are too high pitched for us to be able to hear it. Sound is made by something vibrating and passing that vibration on to the molecules near to
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Why doesn’t honey spoil? Honey doesn’t spoil because it has almost no water in it, because it is a little acidic, and because it has antimicrobial compounds in it. When food spoils, it is usually because microbes like bacteria or fungi start to feed on it. The only goal bacteria have is to reproduce themselves
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Why do flies buzz and cicadas and crickets chirp? Flies buzz because of how fast their wings have to move, cicadas chirp by flexing their tymbal, and crickets rub their wings together. Flies aren’t the only insects that buzz. The majority of insects produce some kind of buzzing sound when they fly. Some insects produce
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What is the difference between bees and wasps? There are many differences. Some of them are what they eat, where they live, how they sting, and how hairy they are. There are many more differences. This is not an easy question because there isn’t just one type of bee and one type of wasp. There
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Why are bees transported across countries by truck? Bees are the largest pollinator of many of the foods we eat and they have to be transported to where the foods are grown. Bees are the most common pollinator but not by any means the only. Bees travel from their hive to find flowers. When they
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What animals and insects are pollinators? A large variety of animals and insects are pollinators. Many of us might think that flowers are only really pollinated by bees and butterflies when, in actual fact, there are a huge number of insects, reptiles, and mammals that are responsible for pollination. What is pollination? A plant has
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I learned this today. Bees make honey as a way to store food through the winter. Flowers cannot move, so they need insects to help them reproduce. To pollinate another flower, the pollen from one flower has to reach another flower. The best way for flowers to do this is to have the pollen stick
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