6, 4, 2, 5, 19000, 13, 35, 1/10, 7000000…
A honeybee has
6 legs
4 wings
2 antennae and
5 eyes.
3 eyes are simple eyes on its forehead and
2 are compound eyes.
1 compound eye consists of
9000 ommatidia in worker bees and
19000 ommatidia in drones (allegedly so they can better spot a queen).
Not a honeybee, but the beautiful eyes of a carpenter bee (photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim)
13°C is the temperature on the outside of the winter cluster.
35°C is the temperature in the brood nest.
0,1g is the weight of a worker bee.
7 000 000 sperms can be held in the queen’s spermatheca.
25 km/h is as fast as a bee can fly (ground speed, I assume, but do not know)
And in
1851 the Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth of Pennsylvania invented the „Langstroth Hive“, now the standard beehive in many parts of the world.
