Honey guide

The fascination of bees – small insects, great achievements

Bees are tiny insects of enormous importance – for our honey and above all for nature. A look into the astonishing world of the bee colony.

A colony like a single organism

In summer a bee colony consists of up to 50,000 bees that work together like a single organism. The queen, workers and drones each have clearly assigned tasks.

The real achievement: pollination

The honey bee's greatest value lies not in honey but in pollination. A large share of our fruit and vegetable plants depend on bees – without them our plates would be considerably emptier.

Communicating by dance

With the famous waggle dance, a forager bee tells her sisters where the best forage sources are – including direction and distance. An astonishingly precise language without words.

Industrious to the last minute

In summer a forager bee lives only a few weeks and literally works herself to death. For a single jar of honey, a colony flies many thousands of kilometres in total.

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