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How is a wasp different from a bee?

Do not mistakenly consider a wasp and a bee to be brothers. It is not for nothing that there is a legend that tells of the creation of wasps by the devil, and bees by God. Indeed, the former are considered pests, and the latter are workers and helpers of our health and longevity. What other differences are there between these insects?

By appearance

According to the classification, they belong to different orders - they differ so much in description and behavior. Bees are easily recognizable by their furry bodies. It is round and massive. The yellow-black stripes on the body are not bright in color, but muted.

Wasps are a special mixture of insects that have borrowed heavily from bees and ants. Their body is long, narrow, and has a characteristic “waist” near the chest. At the same time, the body is absolutely smooth, devoid of villi. And the colors are very combative: the black and yellow stripes are bright and clearly defined.

Where do they live?

It's not for nothing that bees are called hard workers. They are constantly working for the good big family and the quality of the hive. Working individuals build housing from wax, which they produce independently. They also produce beekeeping products that are good for us.

But wasps are not capable of producing anything; they are of no use to people. Moreover, wasp hives are built from waste and small debris.

Attention! Wasps, unlike bees, eat a wide variety of foods. These are fruits, berries, nectar, flies and other small insects.

Behavior

Bees are friendly creatures that always guard their home. They can attack only if the hive is in danger. But wasps are aggressive and always attack first. They are the worst enemies of bees because they rob their hives in order to obtain ready-made food.

Relation to the uterus:

• Bees creates a queen bee royal terms. She is always surrounded by a retinue of helpers, she is fed and sung, her condition is taken care of, and she can even be moved to a more comfortable area of ​​the hive.
• The queen wasp is doomed to live alone. She builds her own nest, lives without helpers or guards, and lays larvae alone.

They sting in different ways

A bee sting leads to the death of the insect. Therefore, the bees do not attack first, but only defend themselves. The sting remains in the opponent or on the human skin and comes off along with part of the internal organs. Therefore, bees sting only in extreme cases. The wasp sting is strong, it does not remain in our skin. The insect uses its sting throughout its life and does not die after being bitten. Thanks to this feature, their bites can be easily distinguished.

As it turns out, the difference between the two types of insects is huge. And their visual similarity is very deceptive. Therefore, you should be wary of wasps, but do not drive them away or show aggression if a bee is flying nearby.

Wasp and bee sting: video

There are at least 200,000 species of bees and wasps, of which there are about 6,500 species in the USSR. Among them, the most famous are domesticated (honey) bees, large hornet wasps and some medium and small representatives of this family.

Bees live in large families consisting of one queen - a highly developed female, several hundred male drones and several tens of thousands of worker bees. The role of the uterus is limited to laying eggs. Worker bees care for the queen, raise offspring, build wax honeycombs, collect pollen, resinous plant secretions and flower nectar, process it into honey, clean the honeycombs, remove garbage from the hives, protect them from enemies and foreign bees, bring water to the hive, ventilate it in hot weather, prepare the hives for winter, diligently seal the cracks of the hives with propolis. Bees are well oriented in space and clearly determine the time of day; Without load they fly at a speed of 65 km/h, with load - 20-30 km/h.

The body of a bee is covered with a hard covering and consists of a head, chest and abdomen. The sensory organs and nervous system are concentrated in the head, on its sides there are large convex eyes, consisting of several thousand small eyes (faceted), and on the crown there are three more small simple eyes. The pair of antennae contains the organs of smell and touch.

With two complex and three simple eyes, bees distinguish the shape and color of objects at a far distance and more clearly than humans. Thanks to their developed sense of smell, they distinguish odorous substances in a dilution of 1: 500, and some - in a dilution of 1: 100,000,000. With a complex proboscis, they lick droplets of nectar in flowers. The legs consist of several segments, the last one has 2 claws for walking on a rough surface and pads for walking on a slippery surface. The hind legs have baskets for collecting pollen. The abdomen consists of 6 segments and 2 half rings. Their movable connection ensures a decrease or increase in the volume of the abdomen, which is necessary for breathing and collecting honey and nectar. The wax-secreting glands are located on the abdominal semirings.

Bees feed on nectar and pollen. At the age of 3-5 days, they fly away from the hives several times a day, circle in the air, looking for young queens, get acquainted with the location of the hives and the entrance, and on the 7-10th day, during warm hours, they make mating flights. The queen mates with 6-7 drones in 2-3 flights. Mating occurs at a temperature environment 28°. Only the uterus has developed genital organs. In her abdomen there are two large ovaries with 150 tubes in which eggs are born and develop. The mature egg approaches the end of the tube and enters the paired oviduct. At the junction with the unpaired oviduct, the spermatic duct opens, where the sperm introduced by the drones during mating are stored. When an egg is laid in a cell, a drop of liquid containing sperm is released from the seminal receptacle, which penetrates into the egg through a small hole. One of them merges with the egg core, the rest dissolve in protoplasm. From fertilized eggs, female individuals (queens and worker bees) develop, male individuals - drones - develop when eggs are laid in drone cells without fertilization.

Within 3 days, a larva without legs and eyes is formed from the egg. In the first days, she swims in royal jelly, rich in proteins, sugar, fat, mineral salts, vitamins and enzymes. By the 5th day, the weight of the larvae increases 190 times, by the end of the 6th day its weight is 143 mg. During this period she sheds several times. On the 5-6th day the larva does not fit in the cell, stops feeding and turns its head towards the exit. The bees seal it with a lid made of a mixture of wax and beebread. Within 24 hours, she spins a cocoon and after the last molt turns into a pupa with the rudiments of organs - wings, legs, sting, head, chest and abdomen. On the 12th day, she turns into an adult bee, gnaws through the cell and leaves it. A worker bee becomes an adult at 21 days, a drone at 24 days.

Wasps, bees and bumblebees belong to the same order - Hymenoptera insects. They have many similarities, but there are also significant differences. Let's look at what they are.

In nature, there are several species of bees and bumblebees, but especially many different wasps - among these insects there are completely harmless loners and real school monsters. For example, scolias and hornets are also wasps, although they differ markedly from the common and familiar ones in size and habits.

Outwardly, it is not difficult to distinguish a wasp from a bee and a bumblebee, especially if the insect does not move. But it happens that the hymenoptera flies past at high speed, or manages to bite and disappear with lightning speed. It is precisely the more common and frequently biting ones that are worth focusing on, because remembering the distinctive features of all types of wasps, bees and bumblebees is difficult and generally impractical.

You can also recognize an insect by the nature of its bite. Let's figure out how to do this and consider in detail how a wasp differs from a bee and a bumblebee.

How to distinguish a wasp from a bee and a bumblebee by appearance

The difference in the structure and color of the body of wasps, bumblebees and bees is significant:

• Wasps are thinner and elongated, with a “wasp waist” - this is the name of the interception between the chest and abdomen; in wasps it is very thin and clearly visible. The body is smooth or with slight pubescence in the head and chest, the back is black with yellow spots, the posterior segment of the body is black with yellow stripes, the paws are yellow. The colors are contrasting, bright stripes and spots are distinguishable from a great distance. The jaws are much larger than those of bees.

• like a very large wasp, but with a less narrow waist and even more powerful jaws. The color is also black and yellow. The main criterion of difference is size. The hornet is 2-3 times larger than other wasps, bees and bumblebees; it grows up to 5 or more centimeters in length.

• Bees are slightly smaller than standard wasps, but their legs are thicker, black and covered with hairs. The jaws are small. The coloring is also black and yellow, but somewhat shaded, not so contrasting. The proportions of the body are more harmonious, the interception between the abdomen and chest is not so sharp, and the chest and back area are heavily pubescent. The back is gray-black with a yellowish coating, the posterior segment of the body is covered with muted yellow stripes.

• The bumblebee is fluffy, much larger, wider and stockier than wasps and bees, and has thick legs. The body is covered with wide stripes of yellow (sometimes reddish or reddish) color. There are also completely black bumblebees.

Flight Character

During their flight, wasps often make jerky movements, every now and then hovering in one place for a couple of moments. They are able to move almost at lightning speed a considerable distance from the place where they were just located. The exception is large wasps (hornets), their movements are not so fast.

The flight of bees is smoother, but bumblebees, on the contrary, fly heavily, rather slowly and with a low hum. For a long time there was an opinion that bumblebees generally fly contrary to the laws of aerodynamics.

Behavior and nutrition

Bees, bumblebees and the vast majority of wasp species are social insects; they lead a gregarious lifestyle. But bumblebees fly alone in search of food, and they can do this in the early morning, when the rest of the Hymenoptera have not yet recovered from sleep. Bumblebees warm up their bodies in a special way and go in search of food with the first glimpse of dawn, managing to collect nectar before other insects.

Bees stay in a small group, and wasps often circle in flocks of up to 2-3 dozen individuals. Bumblebees and bees collect pollen and nectar from flowering plants, but both plant and animal food, often very intrusively and aggressively declaring their rights to any piece of food found.

As soon as you cut a watermelon on the veranda in the summer or start making jam in the kitchen, the wasps are right there: they circle around the table, sit on your hands and food brought to your mouth. They willingly chew the meat into small pieces and take it to the hive to feed their larvae. Wasps, especially large ones, often kill bees and take their honey.

The difference between a bee sting and a wasp and bumblebee sting

Compared to bees and bumblebees, wasps are the most nervous and aggressive. If I awkwardly brush them off or simply don’t please them with my scent, I’ll use my sting. Among all Hymenoptera, it is the most common and most painful. In addition, they are still able to bite painfully with their powerful jaws.

It is smooth, and when stuck into the skin, it does not remain in the wound, so she can use it an unlimited number of times - it will fly off and attack again. This is not harmful to her health. The venom causes severe pain, burning and swelling, especially if bitten by a large individual.

If the insect disappeared from sight after being stung, then you can understand who it was - a wasp or a bee - by the presence or absence of a sting in the wound.

Bees value their sting and sting only when absolutely necessary. They can sting only once, in the process they injure themselves and soon die. The sting of bees is serrated, so it remains in the wound with a piece torn out from the back of the body. But the stinging sensation is not as painful as in the case of a wasp.

When they attack, wasps and bees give a signal to their relatives, and soon they attack the offender together. Bumblebees are also capable of doing this, but since they mostly fly solitary, in a conflict with them, most often you have to deal with only one individual.

Bumblebees sting stronger than bees and paper wasps, but weaker than hornets. Their sting is smooth and does not remain in the wound. To provoke a bumblebee into aggression, you need to try, since this insect is much calmer than wasps and bees.

Nest arrangement

Bees build their hive from wax (they secrete it themselves), making strictly symmetrical honeycombs inside. Domestic bees live in special houses that beekeepers build for them. A hive of wild bees can be located in a hollow tree or in a crevice of a steep rock.

Wasps make their home from parchment, which is made by chewing wood or other plant cellulose. Their hive has a round shape, it gray, looks like paper. Wasps attach the hive to the branches of a tree or the ceilings of rarely visited buildings, and sometimes they build it in the ground.

The nest of bumblebees is called a bombidarium; insects make it in burrows of small animals, hollows, and abandoned bird nests. Bumblebees, like bees, build the first cells of their nest with wax. To construct subsequent cells, they use capsules of already hatched larvae.

Useful qualities

Bees and bumblebees for summer period They pollinate many plants, including very rare ones. Bees give humanity such healthy foods, like honey and propolis, as well as wax and bee bread.

Wasps are also partially involved in plant pollination, but their greatest service is the destruction of insect pests of forests and fields. They can cause harm by gnawing on sweet fruits in gardens and attacking honey bees, but the benefits of their existence outweigh these negative aspects.

It should be noted right away that almost all types of bees are very similar to each other. From a purely visual perspective, there are no significant differences between queen bees, drones and worker bees. It would seem that the structure of the bee is identical for each species. However, the differences are hidden in individual details.

In general, the external characteristics of the structure of bees, both as a whole and in individual parts, are distinguished by an unusual role, which makes it possible to determine the characteristics of the productivity of the insect. For this reason, experienced beekeepers pay great attention to a detailed study of both the general structure of the bee and its individual parts.

Without a doubt, there is no person who does not know what a bee, which belongs to the order of arthropods, looks like. Wasps and ants are its closest relatives. In an adult, it is quite problematic to visually detect membranes on the body, but they are present. General structure A bee consists of a head, abdomen, wings and legs. It seems to be a very simple structure, but everything is not so simple.

The outside of the insect's body is covered with hairs of varying lengths and different purposes. Individual hairs serve as sensory organs, and sometimes this cover protects the bee from hypothermia. This article will examine in detail the structure of the honey bee, each of its individual parts.

Head structure

The bee is characterized by a very strong skull that protects the internal organs of the head, represented by the nerve and brain centers. At the top of the head there are 5 eyes, 2 of which are large and complex. It should be noted that bees’ vision allows them to capture every shade and every detail of what is happening around them.

In the center of the head there are 3 more simple eyes, which are poorly developed, but thanks to them the bee captures the outlines and contours of surrounding objects. Only these eyes enable the insect to move in the dark in search of its home.

In general, the structure of the bee helps it both in work and in cleaning the body. The head continues with antennae, which are organs of touch and consist of eleven particles. This structure of the antennae allows the bee to move them in different directions. After considering the question of how many eyes a bee has and what the antennae are for, we should continue to describe the structure of the insect.

Thanks to this structure of the oral cavity, the shoulder has the ability to bite an uninvited guest, as well as bite through honeycombs. The lower part of the mouth is similar to a proboscis, which helps the insect collect nectar and bring it into the home. The size of the proboscis is approximately 5-8 mm. Caucasian bees have the largest “noses”.

Returning to the question of the vision of this beautiful insect, it should be noted that the spectrum of color vision in the honey bee allows it, in addition to the rays of the visible spectrum, to also distinguish ultra-violet rays, which are invisible to the human eye. For example, 2 shields painted white will appear to the human eye
they are absolutely identical, although in the 1st of them the paint reflects ultraviolet rays, and in the 2nd it absorbs.

But for bees they will look like different colors, and the white shield that reflects ultraviolet rays will be distinguished by insects from the shield, the color of which absorbs these rays. Regarding the question of what colors bees distinguish, scientists have proven that the insect perfectly distinguishes green, yellow, orange and blue.

Breast structure

The bee's chest consists of 4 segments. The last 4th segment (if counted from the head) is essentially the 1st abdominal segment, but joins the 3rd thorax segment before the insect transforms from the larval phase to the pupal phase. True, today the biological significance of anatomical changes has not yet been sufficiently studied. By the way, many novice beekeepers ask the question whether a bee is an animal or an insect, which definition is correct?

Bees belong to the class of insects, but the concept of “animals” implies the ability to feed on ready-made organic compounds, as well as to move intensively. Thus, the bee is not only an insect, but also an animal in the broad sense of the word. By the way, probably not everyone knows how many stomachs a bee has and their functions.

In total, the insect has 2 stomachs, one of which is used for digestion, and the second for honey.

The 1st thoracic segment is connected movably to the head, which increases the flexibility of the whole body, which is so necessary for the bee when various works. The two front legs are attached to the anterior segment. The 2nd segment is slightly more developed compared to the other thoracic segments.

This is due to the fact that the strongest muscles that set the 1st pair of wings in motion are located directly in the 2nd segment, to which, in addition to the 1st pair of wings, the 2nd pair of legs are also attached. The 3rd pair of legs is attached to the 3rd segment, as well as the 2nd pair of wings, which will be discussed in the next section. In addition, the abdomen contains the wax secretion organs of bees that produce wax.

Bee wings

So how many wings does a bee have in total? Honeybees have 2 pairs of wings on their chest, with the 1st pair being slightly larger than the 2nd. By the position of the wings you can determine the state of the insect. If the wings are folded on the back of the bee, then it is accordingly in a state of rest. Before flying, she spreads her wings, after which they interlock, forming one plane.

Bee wings do not have muscles, but during the flight the insect makes about 400 wing beats per second. The wings are driven by the muscles of the chest. During one flight, the insect is able to carry approximately 75 mg of weight. The speed of a bee is 20 km per hour, but without any weight it can reach 60 km per hour.

How much does a bee weigh? During flight, a young individual weighs about 0.122 grams, a feeding or building bee weighs about 0.134 grams, and a flying bee weighs about 0.120 grams.

It should be noted that flight range is associated with several factors:

• relief;
• surrounding landmarks;
• terrain;
• location of honey plants.

If the surface is relatively flat with few landmarks, bees are able to fly about 4 km from the location of the hive. And if there are a large number of landmarks, the range increases accordingly by 2-3 times.

Bee legs

Like the bulk of other insects, the legs of bees serve as a support and also facilitate movement not only with the use of wings. Bees use their legs to clean their bodies. In workers, the legs are used to collect pollen, which they then transfer to their hives. How many legs does a bee have, and where are they located?

Like every given class of insects, bees have 3 pairs of limbs. They grow from the thoracic part of the body. Any leg has about 5 segments, which are connected by a film of chitin, which provides the limbs with such mobility. It should be noted that honey bees are distinguished by their front legs being smaller in size compared to all others, but more mobile.

The front legs are equipped with small brushes, with which bees clean their eyes. Identical brushes are present on the remaining legs. They are used to collect pollen from the body and also to clean the mouth. Honey-bearing insects are distinguished by increased cleanliness; for this reason, great importance is attached to cleaning the body, which is the difference between bees and wasps, among other characteristics.

The middle limbs are not as mobile, but nevertheless perform similar functions. The hind legs are much more mobile than the middle ones, but less so than the front ones. They are characterized by the presence of a significant number of devices designed for collecting pollen and its further transportation.

On outside On the lower leg there is a small basket, which serves to create pollen, which is later transferred to the hive. These limbs are distinctive feature worker insects because they are the main pollen collectors. After considering the question of how many paws a bee has, we need to clarify the differences between bees and wasps.

Differences between bees and wasps

The main difference between bees and wasps is that the former are hard workers. They work endlessly for the good of their hive. During the process of collecting nectar, bees produce a large number of products used in human nutrition and pharmaceuticals. Wasps, in turn, do not produce any products; they build their own hives from various waste materials.

What are other differences between wasps and bees that will help you visually distinguish these insects? When danger arises, the bee stings if it is attacked first, thereby protecting its hive. If a bee stings, it will die because its sting remains in the enemy's body. Bee families are distinguished by the presence of a hierarchy, at the highest level of which is the queen.

The wasp is a rather aggressive insect. They are very annoying and always ready to sting. If a wasp stings, it does not die. In addition to the sting, wasps use the jaw apparatus for protection, which is not at all typical for individuals of its family. So how can an inexperienced person tell a bee from a wasp?

The next step is to consider the question - where is the bee's sting used for protection?

Location of the sting in bees

A bee sting is a pointed organ that is also part of the insect's body.

The sting is used to sting enemies, resulting in the injection of a burning and poisonous substance.

Where is the bee's sting? This organ is located at the back of the abdomen and is a modified ovipositor.

The sting is used as a weapon of defense against various attacks. Since the bee is characterized by a flexible abdominal structure, the blow is delivered very accurately. Usually the insect itself does not attack, but uses such a remedy only as protection in case of danger to the family or its own life.

Not everyone who knows where a bee’s sting is located has the idea that under a microscope, the organ has serrations visible through which the stinger remains in the body of a person or animal. As a result of the attack, the insect develops an open wound, which becomes the cause of its death.

To summarize this article, we can say that until now, not everyone had an idea of ​​how complex a bee is. Meanwhile, this insect is distinguished by an amazing structure, in which each organ or segment has its own function and purpose. The text revealed the following questions: how many stomachs a bee has, the structure of the head and abdomen of an insect, its wings and legs.

Among the insects flying in the meadow, there are three genera that a person encounters quite often in his life: the bee, the wasp and the bumblebee. It's difficult to confuse them. They vary greatly in color and size. But sometimes this is possible if you do not delve into the details of the color of a large insect that has flown into the window. We are accustomed to the fact that the bumblebee is the largest of these three species, but the predatory wasp is much larger, and the body length of some bumblebees is less than that of the bee. Therefore, you will have to understand in more detail how a wasp, a bee and a bumblebee differ from each other, and how they are similar.

Similarities

All three groups belong to the Hymenoptera family. Wasps, bees, and bumblebees are social insects and build nests. All three have stingers. Families are divided into queens, workers and male drones. After fertilization of the female, the workers expel the male parasites. They defend their nests by attacking the whole family.

Bees and bumblebees belong to the family of true bees and. Bumblebee honey is superior in quality to bee honey, but cannot be stored for a long time. Both genera of these insects are beneficial plant pollinators.

They have a smooth sting that they can use repeatedly. Many bumblebees have almost the same body coloring.

This is where the similarities end. Now let’s talk about how a wasp, a bee, and a bumblebee differ from each other.

Differences

There are much more signs by which you can determine who is flying around. Using them, it is unmistakably possible to recognize whether an insect belongs to a particular family.

In the first place is “hairiness”. In terms of hairiness, the rating of insects looks like this:

1. Bumblebee.
2. Bee.

Large wasps and small bumblebees are easy to confuse even by color. Among these unrelated insects there are species similar in color scheme and the location of the marks. But wasps are always “bald”.

The bee occupies an intermediate place in terms of hairiness and often also appears “bald” to the inattentive observer. In fact, it has bristles, but they are short and sparse.

Coloring

The degree of color is quite easy: the first one is always dark brown. The stereotype of striped honey collectors comes from cartoons. You can compare photos of a bee and a bumblebee. The differences will be immediately noticeable.

The other two insects can have not only striped, but also almost uniform coloring. For example, glitter wasps are iridescent, and typhias are solid black. But usually people only consider wasps to be insects with black and yellow stripes on their bodies. This does not prevent representatives of other families from also biting painfully and sometimes being more dangerous.

Body size

Insects may have almost no differences in length, which means that it is difficult to say which one is being talked about just by indicating the body length. But the overall dimensions give a clear idea of ​​who is who. This is another point in how a bumblebee differs from a bee or wasp.

On a note!

With equal body length, a representative of the genus Bombus is always larger and more massive than graceful bees and wasps.

Diet and storage of supplies

Here the greatest differences are observed between these three representatives of the order Hymenoptera. The family of true bees are vegetarians and feed on nectar and pollen from flowers. Wasps - with a bias towards the sphere of predators and scavengers.

The difference between a bee and a bumblebee in this area is that the former make provisions for the winter and leave for the winter with the whole family. The second needs honey only for feeding the larvae. Of the entire bumblebee family, only the queen remains for the winter. Therefore, although they know how to make honey, bumblebees do not prepare it and use it only for feeding larvae.

Wasps can eat:

• ripe fruits;
• jam;
• insects;
• carrion.

They feed the larvae with protein food. To do this, in nature, workers catch insects, including green corpse flies. In urban environments, they bite off small pieces of meat at the market or find the corpse of a dead animal.

They do not make reserves for the winter, since the entire aspen family dies out in the fall, and only the queen “leaves” for the winter.

Nests

A family of real bees, in the absence of ready-made artificial hives and bumblebees, finds a suitable cavity and begins to build honeycombs there. Their nests do not have a specific shape, as they depend on the cavity in which the queen has settled.

The most common and familiar to us, real wasps, at the sight of which people are not mistaken about the identity of the insect, build nests on their own. In Russia, there can be two types: a vertically elongated top (the kind they depict in cartoons) and a curved “plate” of irregular shape. The “plate” resembles a sunflower core from which the seeds have been removed.

The “extended top” may turn out to be a nest of hornets.

Wasps build their nests from chewed cellulose glued together with saliva. The structure of the nest material is very similar to thick paper.

Stings

The bee has serrations and a “lock” on the tip. This prevents the stinger from being removed from the victim's body. Therefore, the worker defending the nest dies after the attack. For this reason, bees attack themselves only if you climb into their hive.

Insects can easily remove bumblebee and wasp stings from the victim and use them again. The pain from a bite directly depends on their size. Moreover, the wasp often bites “just like that.” With a bumblebee, you have to try really hard to get it to sting.

Behavior

Bumblebee is a loner. If disturbed, it will fly away. Representatives of the genus Bombus attack only if the nest is in danger.

A solitary worker bee can sometimes hover around an object, determining the degree of its danger to itself. But it won’t sting if you don’t wave your arms or make sudden movements. They attack together only when attacking a hive.

The wasp is the most quarrelsome and annoying creature of all three. Can hover around an object for a long time. And it often stings because “I want it that way.”

If they suddenly disappear

Ecologists around the world are sounding the alarm, pointing to a decline in the number of bee and bumblebee families. If you imagine that wasps, bumblebees, and bees suddenly disappeared, then hardly anyone will notice the absence of the former. Their place will be taken by other lovers of insects and carrion. It doesn't make much difference who will destroy the pests. However, we should not forget that in addition to harm, they are just like their relatives.

But humanity will immediately feel the disappearance of pollinators. Without bees - pollinators of a significant part fruit trees and bushes and bumblebees working on clover and in greenhouses, humanity will suffer famine. But scientists don’t yet know what to do about the decline in pollinator numbers.

Just wondering

Finally, a few interesting facts about bees, wasps and bumblebees:

• After the queen is fertilized, the bees attack the drones and drive them out of the hive forever. “When free,” the drones quickly die, since they cannot obtain food for themselves.
• Wasps, but few have seen him. This almost microscopic droplet at the bottom of the new cell is needed by the larva only for the first time, until it becomes able to consume protein food.
• Bumblebees wake up earlier than everyone else and are the first to collect nectar.
• The hornet is a predator that prefers live prey.
• A worker bee can tell family members the way to a food source.

All these insects are very interesting, if you do not treat them as annoying and unnecessary creatures. They do more good than harm, and they should not be destroyed unless absolutely necessary.