Bob Allen and his worker bees
Six facts about worker bees:
- Live up 6 weeks
- Leave the hive to use the bathroom
- Determine who the next queen will be
- Will produce 1/12th a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime
- Visits between 50 and 100 flowers a day
- Will collect 1/2 their body weight in pollen each trip out
Here’s something good to know, only the females sting. The drones (male bees) do not have stingers.
All worker bees are sterile females and live up to their tag line – busy as a bee.
Aster and Bob looking at a single worker bee
Copy and photos by Helen Yoest
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