Thursday, April 23, 2020

 Bee Science....


                                         A drop of honey (Nectar)


brought home by one single bee 
is rather small,
her honey stomach being 
not much bigger than the head of a pin.
In order to collect
a thimbleful of honey
she would have to fill, empty, and refill it
about sixty times.

However 
the droplet of honey in a single floret
is smaller still. 
Our foraging bee must visit
between one thousand and fifteen hundred single florets of clover
just to fill her honey stomach
once. 

- Karl von Frisch





1 comment:

  1. Now I know why the term ‘worker bee’ is so apt! Imagine having to go to 1,000 shops just to find food for dinner!

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