- Only female bees sting, and many solitary bees can’t sting.
- A bee’s sting (or stinger) is a modified egg-laying organ.
- A bee has five eyes: two are complex eyes that see movement well, while the other three detect light intensity.
- Bees can see ultraviolet light, but they cannot see the red end of the spectrum, so they perceive the world as more blue and purple than we do.
- Drones do not have a father, but they do have a grandfather.
- Bees are herbivores, and their diet comes entirely from flowers— carbohydrates from nectar and protein from pollen.
- Honey bees are not native to the Americas, and bumble bees are not native to Australia.
- A queen bee has exactly the same genes as a worker: she develops into a queen simply because she is fed extra rations of royal jelly when she is a larva.
- The honey bee genome has been sequenced; it is about one-tenth the size of the human one.
- Bees pollinate over 130 fruit and vegetable crops, and produce many other things that benefit humans— honey, wax, resins, propolis, royal jelly, and even venom.
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