Western Honeybee

Hearing a honeybee is easy as their wings beat at an incredible rate. They beat at about 200 beats per second, this make their buzzing sound that we hear when they are by flowers collecting pollen and nectar. A honeybee can fly for six miles at a speed of 15 mph. To find flowers they use the sun. Their internal compass adjusts to the solar movements so they can tell other honeybees where the flowers are.

The Queen is the bee that every other bee follows. They tend to be the biggest and if you take the queen the other bees will follow to her. The queen can live to be six years old. As they age their reproductive compacity decreases making the colony smaller. If or when the queen dies, worker bees will create a new queen. They choose a young larva from the newborns and will feed it special food call “royal jelly” to create the new queen.