Written by Eve Gersh, Bee Campus USA Eco Rep Would you like to spend more time this fall enjoying a bonfire, sitting down with a good book, or savoring the colors of autumn with a warm mug of hot cocoa? If so, you can cut out the chore of raking your leaves this season. NotContinue reading “Give Thanks for Bees, Leave your Leaves”
Category Archives: Bees
More than a Buzz: Bee Swarms Carry as much Electrical Charge as a Thunderstorm
Written by Eve Gersh – Bee Campus USA Eco Rep Electricity is not just something that powers our infrastructure and modern devices. It is one of the fundamental ingredients of the universe. Everything, from water to soil, carries its own electrical charge. This includes flowers and their pollen, and contributes to the work of honeybees.Continue reading “More than a Buzz: Bee Swarms Carry as much Electrical Charge as a Thunderstorm”
Sleeping Be(e)auty: Why Bees Need a Good Night’s Rest
Eve Gersh – Bee Campus USA Eco Rep If flying up to ten miles a day, a distance more than 100,000 times your body length, sounds like hard work: that’s because it is. Yet, foraging honeybees do this daily to contribute to their honey stores for the hive. It is no wonder they need toContinue reading “Sleeping Be(e)auty: Why Bees Need a Good Night’s Rest”
Beeswax Really is the Bees’ Knees
Why is beeswax so important, and where did the phrase ‘bees knees’ come from anyway? Do bees even have knees? Let’s start with beeswax. Most of it is produced by young worker bees aged 14-21 days because, as a bee gets older, her wax glands shrink. Older worker bees may help to produce wax ifContinue reading “Beeswax Really is the Bees’ Knees”
What a Bee Sees
What does the world look like to a bee? Although we can’t see through a bee’s eyes ourselves, we are closer to solving the mystery thanks to science. Nobel Prize winner Dr. Karl von Frisch pioneered the first research into bee vision. In one of his experiments, sugar water was placed over blue squares andContinue reading “What a Bee Sees”
Buzzed: How Bees Fly
A bee’s average flight speed is about 15mph-20mph. That might not seem very fast to us because humans are, on average, 5.5ft tall. But if we were to enlarge the bee to a human size her flight would feel roughly like 270mph according to this website that shows animal speeds relative to their sizes. (There’sContinue reading “Buzzed: How Bees Fly”
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