Apr 15, 2023
Waggle Dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. Dogs eat bees because they like to chase and capture things. Did you know that one of every three or four bites of food we eat is thanks to honeybees? Bees pollinate about 90 different crops, from apples and oranges to almonds and blueberries! People have known about the importance of bees for centuries. Cave paintings in Europe show that people were harvesting honey 8,000 years ago! The Egyptians were beekeepers, and their methods were copied throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East.
The average honey bee can fly at speeds of 20 miles per hour and communicate with each other by dancing! A typical hive has up to 60,000 honey bees in constant bombination. The world couldn’t survive without bees. Einstein predicted that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only 4 yrs of his life left!" The stinger of a bee is one-tenth of an inch long the other nine-tenths is pure imagination. What do you call a person whose grand terror is being stung by a bee? An endidophobe (NI-de-FOBE!) The average American consumes 1.3 pounds of honey a year. We steal honey from the bees and then get mad when they sting us. What’s another word for this kind of hypocrisy? Tartuffish (tor-TOOF-ish)!
What is a word for fear of bees? Melissophobia or apiphobia.