Swarms of western honeybees can generate an electric charge of 1000 volts per metre, a voltage density greater than thunderstorm clouds and electrified dust storms A cape honeybee foraging in red aloe flowers in southern africa the workers of a south african subspecies of honeybee can clone themselves, with one individual having done. As bees go, the 200 or so species of orchid bee are a curious bunch:
A vibrational pulse produced by honeybees , long thought to be a signal to other bees to stop what they are doing, might. Honeybees are avid drinkers, and this could make them ideal for research into drugs to treat alcoholism, say researchers. I feel nice, like sugar and spice… bumblebees may experience something like happiness after getting a treat that makes them appear more.
No wonder the females aren’t especially enamoured. Honey bees make honey to store up as food to last them through the winter months. Though only 5 to 10 per cent of bees make a career of removing corpses from the hive, about. They are solitary and do not make honey.
Headbutts come as a surprise whoop whoop! Most animals have to be tricked into drinking. Undertakers are not as rare in the bee world as biologists once thought.