Sunday, June 9, 2013

What are the name of the insects that make food for HUMANS??



Name one INSECT that make a form of food for humans?

HONEY BEES!! Yes! Honey bees are the only one insect that make a form of food for us. Aren’t you little intrigued about Honey bees now? Let see some crazy facts about them.


▲Honey bees never sleep!

▲3 types of Honey bees: Queen, Worker, and Drone


▲The queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day during her 3     or 4 year lifetime. This daily egg production may equal her own weight.

▲She is constantly fed and groomed by attendant worker bees.

▲Honey bees' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz

▲Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approx. 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.


………What it takes them to make honey?????

To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 768 bees





Source:
"Fun Facts." [Online]  <http://www.utahcountybeekeepers.org/fun_facts.html>

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