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Many of us, thinking about bees, first of all remember that the bees sting painfully. We also know that bees pollinate flowers and process pollen into fragrant honey. However, as it turned out, the life of a bee is not as primitive as it might seem at first sight. Your attention – a few amazing facts about their life /esoreiter.ru/. Apply Plastic Some Bees adapted to the conditions of urban life so much that they became use particles of plastic products to build their nests. For example, bees living in Toronto have been spotted for using plastic as a building material bags. There have also been cases when bees in the same In order to use pieces of drywall and other similar materials. Coffee lovers It turns out that not only people like coffee. By a study published in the journal Science, caffeine in nectar of citrus flowers gives the bees a boost of energy, as well as strengthens their memory. Sweet tooth bees are like people not only by their addiction to caffeine, they also, like many of us, they love sweets. If a bee collecting nectar, offer on choice of flowers with a salty, bitter or sugar flavor – bee will select the latter. Bee dance Honey bees love dance. However, they do not use dances in order to have fun while communicating with each other. Although researchers it took a long time to decipher the bee dances, they nevertheless, they were able to understand what the bee was telling his relatives when help movements. It turned out that the main topic of bee talk are flowers, and the angle of inclination during the dance indicates to others bees, in what direction and how far they are. Care for offspring Females of the Chinese wasp Deuteragenia ossarium arrange at the entrance to your nest, a special chamber that is filled with bodies dead ants. Scientists have concluded that the ants to these wasps needed not as food for larvae, but as a disguise nests after they lay their eggs. It is known that after Ants smell of death for a long time, it is this smell that repels other ants away from the aspen nest. Competition When the bees find a new source of nectar, they know how quietly whisper about this to his comrades from the colony. The bees try to keep their find secret so that competitors from other hives did not recognize and did not get ahead of them. If in sight competitors quietly communicating among themselves, then some of them take on a mission that distracts from whispering and drown out loud buzzing information about the location new power source.
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