Question: Really off-topic but, Do you like Bees?
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@Dustin
where do solitary bees live and sleep?
@Steven
Are Crumpets your favourite product to have with honey?
@Arti
what kind of dances?-
Hi Shadycactus6,
They can perform little specific sets of movements to indicate different things to each other, like how far away a source of food is. Apparently, the ‘waggle dance’ is the name of the one they use to indicate that food is far away, and they use the ’round dance’ to say that food is nearby. I remember that one of my friends who studied zoology at uni was learning about these once. You can read more about bee communication here, including their ‘dances’ and chemical communication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communication -
Solitary bees, will often live in the ground or in wood or other debris.
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@james
what can i do to help save the bees?
@chris
are you one of the people that bees dont like for no reason?-
Start by planting Australian natives in your garden. You can also construct bee houses if you have a big enough yard and a quiet place to put them. Instructions are on the internet 🙂
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@shadycactus, yep, they seem to always try to hunt me down and sting me. I think they’re out to get me…….
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Ha, yeah they are out to get you and you alone my friend.
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shadycactus6
Hi Shadycactus,
Bees are awesome! While we think of bees as being these animals that live in hives, in fact, only aboubt 5% of australian bees live in hives, most are actually solitary animals.
Yeah i like bees
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Yes, I like bees. One stung me the other day while riding my bike. Was not impressed with that, but will forgive them due to the honey they provide for my crumpets.
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Hi Shadycactus6,
Yes, I like bees. They are pretty fascinating creatures. Like all insects, they communicate using chemicals called pheromones, but did you know that they can have lots of different ‘dances’ that they perform to communicate different messages to each other as well?
Also, ‘melittology’ is the discipline name for the scientific study of bees (this is a branch of ‘entomology’, the study of insects), and the sub-discipline relating to the study of honey bees specifically is called ‘apiology’.
Pretty cool stuff!
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Bees are amongst the most important insects on the planet as they fertilize plants which allow us to grow food. At the moment there are real concerns that bees are dying out. Bee populations are in decline all over the world and nobody really understands why.
Plus bees make honey which is the most amazing stuff! It is being mixed with skin cream by some companies as honey can kill bacteria and, somehow, promote healing. Amazing stuff.
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Nope, don’t like them. They freak me out. And they hurt 🙁
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