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Bees use the sun to determine direction. The direction of their dance changes with time of day. Bees use the hive, the honey collection site and the sun to locate themselves.

The beehive is the vertex of a triangle, and the size of the vertex angle is determined by two lines: one is from the beehive to the sun, and the other is a straight line from the beehive to the nectar-collecting site. The angle between these two lines is called the "sun angle", which is the "steering wheel" of the bee.

The bee first flies a small half circle to the left, then turns around and flies another small half circle to the right. The flight path is like an "8". However, the bee sometimes flies from top to bottom, and sometimes flies from bottom to top. The angle between the flight line and the vertical line of the ground is equal to the sun angle. It is based on the size of this angle that the bee determines the location and direction of collecting honey.

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Queen Bee

The queen bee's social division of labor is to lay eggs full-time, shouldering the social responsibility of reproducing offspring. Its body is very strong, with a big belly, weighing twice as much as a worker bee, and it has lost the slenderness of a "female" figure.

During the egg-laying period, the queen bee feeds royal jelly to the worker bees every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain vigorous egg-laying ability. According to expert statistics, the queen bee of the Chinese honey bee can lay 700 to 800 eggs a day;

However, the maximum number is 1 times higher than this. That is the queen bee of the Italian honey bee, which can produce up to 1,500 to 2,000 eggs. In terms of weight, the number of eggs produced per day is almost twice its own body weight.

Bees use the sun to determine direction. The direction of their dance changes with time of day. Bees use the hive, the honey collection site and the sun to locate themselves.

The beehive is the vertex of a triangle, and the size of the vertex angle is determined by two lines: one is from the beehive to the sun, and the other is a straight line from the beehive to the nectar-collecting site. The angle between these two lines is called the "sun angle", which is the "steering wheel" of the bee.

The bee first flies a small half circle to the left, then turns around and flies another small half circle to the right. The flight path is like an "8". However, the bee sometimes flies from top to bottom, and sometimes flies from bottom to top. The angle between the flight line and the vertical line of the ground is equal to the sun angle. It is based on the size of this angle that the bee determines the location and direction of collecting honey.

Extended information: Queen Bee

The queen bee's social division of labor is to lay eggs full-time, shouldering the social responsibility of reproducing offspring. Its body is very strong, with a big belly, weighing twice as much as a worker bee, and it has lost the slenderness of a "female" figure.

During the egg-laying period, the queen bee feeds royal jelly to the worker bees every day to promote rapid metabolism and maintain vigorous egg-laying ability. According to expert statistics, the queen bee of the Chinese honey bee can lay 700 to 800 eggs a day;

However, the largest number is 1 times higher than this. That is the queen bee of the Italian honey bee, which can reach 1,500 to 2,000 grains.

From a scientific point of view, the average number of eggs produced every day is almost twice their body weight.

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