UV, because bees can locate the sun even through the clouds on an overcast day and use that for navigation. Also, because flowers that need bees to pollinate them use UV colors to attract those bees. Sometimes the UV color is shows on the flowers in markings that point the way to the nectar and pollen sources in patterns that suggest the runway light patterns we find in modern airports.
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See AllSo, we know that queens are the largest caste of bees in the hive, although some drones are larger than some queens. Per The Beekeeper’s...
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So what’s the weight of a raindrop? We in Western Washington (geographical base of the SnoKing Beekeepers Assn.) know that drops of...
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Clearly pounds and ounces aren't going to work, so we have to go metric. A single bee weighs 121 mg, about 1/10 of a gram.
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