Daily Celestial Challenge: Animal Kingdom - The Honey Bee

Good day fellow steemians, initially i was blank on what to write on today's #celestialchallenge initiated by @sirknight but thanks to an enlightening and really wonderful post by @bigpanda, i finally decided to write on the honey bee.

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FUN FACTS ABOUT BEES

• Every honey bee colony has a specific and unique scent. This is to allow for easy location.

• Female bees are called 'worker bees', while male bees are called 'drones'.

• Not all bees sting, only the worker bees do although the queen also possesses a 'stinger'.

• Once a bee stings, it dies. Talk about a one time offer😢

• Bees have a funny way of communicating with each other. They do this by 'dancing'. That's right, dancing.

• Worker bees live for only about six weeks.

• The drones do not do any work or even possess a stinger. All they do in mate.😒lazy bums.

• During a collection journey(when they go around visiting flowers), a honey bee visits an average of about eighty flowers.

BEES VS WASPS
Bees are usually mistaken for wasps and vice versa. I remember once when i was a kid writing an entrance examination, as i was cracking my brains out, one unfortunate wasp (i thought it was a bee at that time) came to sting it. I jumped and ran out of the hall, i remember crying due to the embarassment. But that is a story for another day.

Now bees and wasps are completely different insects, some of the differences include but are not limited to;

• Bees are far less violent than wasps.

• For bees, their stingers are blunt and get stuck in their target hence they die after a single sting. While wasps have sharp and smooth stingers so they can easily sting a target severally.

• Bees live in colonies, while wasps can choose to live in colonies or in solitude.

• Wasps eat other insects and sometimes nectar, but bees feed on just nectar.

So basically, thats it. Hope the post was appreciated.