![]() When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source. Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their ‘ waggle dance’. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day!ĩ. During this time, she’ll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.Ĩ. ![]() The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.ĭid you know that we have a FREE downloadable ‘Buzz about bees’ primary resource, all about these awesome insects? Great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents alike!ħ. They fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second!Ħ. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen.ĥ. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “ royal jelly“. What are these buzzing bugs most famous for? Delicious honey! But did you know they produce honey as food stores for the hive during winter? Luckily for us, these efficient little workers produce 2-3 time more honey than they need, so we get to enjoy the tasty treat, too!Ĥ. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!Īsk your parents to check out Nat Geo Kids magazine! (AD)ģ. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.ĭrones: These are the male bees, and their purpose is to mate with the new queen. Workers : these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive’s next generation of bees. The members of the hive are divided into three types: This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.Ģ. Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The seller says that it runs great with no mechanical problems at all.Calling all budding – or should we say buzz-ing – young naturalists! Join National Geographic Kids as we get the lowdown on one of our planet’s most fascinating insects in our ten facts about h oney bees!ġ. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. A zipping bee it’s not, but for a car that only weighs one ton that’s not bad. This one would have had Nissan’s / Datsun’s A14, 1.4L inline-four with 70 hp. This was the two-door sedan body style, the Honey Bee wasn’t available in the classic B-210 hatchback body style. And, we haven’t even talked about the engine or drivetrain yet!Įr… well, since there are no engine photos, I’ll leave you with this photo showing probably its best angle. Every square inch of the body and interior will have to be restored and that will be probably 2-3 times what the car is worth. They didn’t come with the honeycomb wheel covers that some folks have put on them, although they really do look good on these cars and they make a lot of sense.īoy, the interior looks equally rough, doesn’t it? This car will never be restored, unfortunately, I think it’s just well past that happy, storybook ending. The Honey Bee was a low-spec car and this one has the correct wheel covers, or dog dish hub caps. ![]() Is it too rough to restore? Sadly, I may be leaning towards that end, even though I love these unusual, inexpensive-when-new B-210 Honey Bees. ![]() Screeeeeeech! Here’s where most Barn Finds readers move on to the next post. Speaking of price, I wrote about a similar but worlds-nicer Honey Bee a few months ago that sold for a bit over $3,000 on eBay. When the regular Datsun B-210 was too much money for first-time buyers, the Honey Bee was marketed to those folks with its basic-trim and lower price. I know that vehicles can and often do rust in California, but I’m surprised at the condition of this car. Most of these cars that have come up for sale in the last couple of years have been in the $3,000-$5,000ish range, but they’ve been much nicer than this one is. Thanks to Pat L for finding this Honey Bee! It can be found on Craigslist in Riverside, California. This rough-looking 1977 Datsun B-210 Honey Bee has an asking price of “only” $1,900 or best offer. ![]()
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