If the worker bee weighs on average about 121 mg, how many mg do you guess a queen weighs?
So, we know that queens are the largest caste of bees in the hive, although some drones are larger than some queens. Per The Beekeeper’s...
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eliochel
Jan 7, 20232 min read
How much does difference in weight does a drop of rain on a worker bee make? Can they fly in rain?
So what’s the weight of a raindrop? We in Western Washington (geographical base of the SnoKing Beekeepers Assn.) know that drops of...
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eliochel
Jan 7, 20231 min read
We buy package bees by the pound, about 3,500 per pound. How much does a single worker bee weigh?
Clearly pounds and ounces aren't going to work, so we have to go metric. A single bee weighs 121 mg, about 1/10 of a gram.
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eliochel
Jan 7, 20231 min read
What color can bees see that humans can not see? Why is this important?
UV, because bees can locate the sun even through the clouds on an overcast day and use that for navigation. Also, because flowers that...
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eliochel
Jan 3, 20231 min read
How many eyes does a bee have? Warning: this is a trick question!
2 compound eyes, 3 simple eyes (ocelli), but each of the compound eyes has 1000s of ommatidia. According to "Honeymaker: How the Honey...
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