BASF Science Club: Bees and Pollination

BASF employee, Stephanie Darnell, is a Technical Product Stewardship Manager and a beekeeper! She shows the inside of a hive and shares some facts about bees:

- Honey bees are a major pollinator for crops

- 30,000-60,000 bees in a hive
- They fly 1-5 miles away to find resources
- Each box in a beehive is called a Super
- Honey never spoils
- The workers are all females
- Each hive has just one queen

- The queen lays around 1,000 eggs per day
- The bees help feed, groom, and take care of the queen
- Bees can sting you, but they are just interested in finding food
- Pollen sticks to bees, so as they move from plant to plant they spread the pollen

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