Zabrisky Point
Worker Bee
Worker honey bee are fated to a life of hard labor. Their wings are tattered from constant trips between flower nectar sources and the hive. Each worker honey bee (shown here) will make about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her 1-2 month adult lifespan. They travel up to 2 miles to a nectar source, and must visit over 2 million flowers to make only one pound of honey. Many of the foods we eat come from plants that rely on honey bees for pollination. Throughout the Northern Hemisphere honey bee populations have suffered from the mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD), where bees disappear from their hives. Scientists now think a new generation of systemic pesticides increasingly in use is at least partly to blame for CCD.
Worker Bee
Worker honey bee are fated to a life of hard labor. Their wings are tattered from constant trips between flower nectar sources and the hive. Each worker honey bee (shown here) will make about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her 1-2 month adult lifespan. They travel up to 2 miles to a nectar source, and must visit over 2 million flowers to make only one pound of honey. Many of the foods we eat come from plants that rely on honey bees for pollination. Throughout the Northern Hemisphere honey bee populations have suffered from the mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD), where bees disappear from their hives. Scientists now think a new generation of systemic pesticides increasingly in use is at least partly to blame for CCD.