what is probably most impressive is the workload these little animals deal with. For one kilo of honey, they visit 4 million flowers, and fly a distance equivalent of more than 4 times around the earth. Think about that for a second.
And then, if you start to think about how they “furniture” their housing themselves by the wax they sweat out, how they can control temperature inside the hive to the tenth of a degree, how they collectively make decisions in a group of 50’000 (the queen has nothing to say in that sense, she is only the breeding unit)… the amazement never stops.
—Moritz from Germany on The Listserve
(Source: mail.google.com)
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