Yet again I'm apologising. This time for the lack of Friday Feeling posts that I've been doing. I seem to have lapsed badly and haven't done one of these for nearly three weeks! There is an excuse though - I've been a really busy busy bee recently and don't feel like I've touched the floor in the last few weeks. So as a homage to how busy I've been, I thought today's theme should be about bees. There are some seriously cute items on Etsy if you search for bees but I thought I'd go for some fun and happy items I liked this week. What do you think?
What little snippets can I find for you this week?
Honey bees have been around for nearly 30 million years.
No other insects produce food that man eats.
A honey bee visits between 50 and 100 flowers in a single trip to collect nectar.
In its lifetime the average honey bee only makes about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
Baby bees don't know how to make honey - they get taught how to do it by experienced honey makers.
A bees wings beat about 11,400 times a minute, they travel at 15 miles an hour and can fly up to 6 miles at a time.
A queen bee lays her own weight in eggs a day and can lay about 200,000 eggs a year. Despite that, honey bees are endangered due to man's interference with their habitats.
Male honey bees are called drones and all they do is mate with the queen - they have no stingers and do no work.
Which means, yes, all the worker bees are actually female, albeit sexually undeveloped females.
The Dance of the Bumble Bee by Rimsky-Korsakov has to be this week's YouTube video. At the school I used to work at, our 'Flying Club' used to do a gymnastics routine to this music. It was pretty impressive.
