Amazing Facts and Information about Bees

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hymenoptera

Suborder: Apocrita

Superfamily: Apoidea

(unranked): Anthophila

Families:

Andrenidae

Apidae

Colletidae

Dasypodaidae

Halictidae

Megachilidae

Meganomiidae

Melittidae

Stenotritidae

Amazing Facts and Information Bees

• Can see light between wavelengths 300 nm and 650 nm.
• Have chemoreceptors (taste receptors) on their jaws, forelimbs and antennae.
• Worker honey bees have 5,500 lenses ("ommatidia") in each eye.
• Worker honey bees have a ring of iron oxide ("magnetite") in their abdomens that may be used to detect magnetic fields.
• They may use this ability to detect changes in the earth's magnetic field and use it for navigation.
• Can see polarized light.