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more fantastic videos so let's start the video top 10 fantastic facts about bees
number one busy bees almost 90 percent of wild plants and 75 percent of leading global crops
depend on animal pollination 0.11 out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators
crops that depend on pollination are five times more valuable than those that do not
2. honey i'm home these can be found living in so many locations some surprising let's list a
few marshes shingle sand dunes salt cliffs heath lands wetlands chalk grasslands quarries gravel
pits seawalls and even industrial land three these also rely on a transport system to get around
imagine trying to travel around britain without our road and rail network or imagine if nine out
of every ten miles of road just didn't exist life would be impossible beelines are an imaginative
and beautiful solution to the problem of the loss of flowers and pollinators the bee lines
are series of insect pathways running through our countryside and towns they link existing wildlife
areas together creating a network like railway that will weave across the british landscape
four bringing a beat back to life if you find a bumblebee which appears to be struggling it may
be that it is just resting particularly if the bee is a queen in early spring if you think the
bee is struggling the best thing to do is gently put the bee onto a bee friendly flower but there
are no bee friendly flowers around mix 50 50 white sugar and water to give the bumble bee a one-off
energy boost providing the carbohydrates it needs to fly simply offer a drop or two of sugar water
up to the front end of the bee on a teaspoon or an upturned drinks cap in a sheltered place
and allow the bee time to recuperate it is not advisable to use brown sugar as it is harder for
bees to digest and don't give bumblebees honey as this can contain pathogens five anyone including
you can help it be out we can all do a bit to help ease whether that's in our gardens balconies
or windowsills you can also chat to friends and family about how cool bees are and help them to
make their wild spaces be friendly plant a range of flowers in your garden soapies have access to
nectar from march to october bees love traditional cottage garden flowers and native wildflowers like
primrose but leah and marigolds six bees actually have four wings the two wings each side hug
together to form one larger pair when flying and then unhook when they're not flying 7. bee gees
honeybees have a dance move called the waggle dance it's not actually a dance move at all rather
clever way of communicating between themselves to tell their nest mates where to go to find the best
source of food it took the researchers at sussex university two years to decode the waggle dance
eight the brainy bunch the buff-tail bumblebee has a brain the size of a poppy seed
which is incredible given the fact scientists have managed to train them to score goal in b football
in return for a sugary tree quite unbelievable 9. they have surprisingly smelly feet scientists
from the university of bristol have discovered the bumblebees have the ability to use their
smelly footprints to distinguish between their own scent the scent of a relative and the scent
of a stranger this means they can improve their success in finding food and avoid flowers that
already have been visited 10. a dinner for queens if the queen bee dies in a honeybee
hive the workers can create a new queen bee they do this by selecting a young larva and
by feeding a special food called royal jelly the larva will develop into a fertile queen
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