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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Sleep Tight Science. |
0:15.0 | Did you know bees have five eyes? |
0:18.8 | What? |
0:19.8 | In addition to their two large compound eyes, bees also have three eyes? What? In addition to their two large compound eyes, |
0:23.8 | bees also have three smaller eyes called a chely |
0:27.6 | on top of their heads. |
0:30.3 | These eyes are not foreseeing details, |
0:33.2 | but help the bee understand which direction it's heading |
0:36.2 | by reading the light from the sun. |
0:52.8 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to Sleeptight Science, a bedtime show that answers your questions about science. |
1:01.7 | In this episode, we are going to talk about bees. Growing up, we were a little bit scared of bees. |
1:10.1 | But as we learned more about them, we realized how incredible these insects are |
1:15.8 | and how they play a crucial role in our ecosystem. |
1:20.4 | Bees belong to the super family, a poitia, in the order hymenaptra, |
1:26.6 | making them cousins to wasps and ants. |
1:31.1 | There are over 20,000 species of bees, and while they vary widely in behavior and appearance, they all share some fascinating characteristics. |
1:48.5 | Bees are especially adapted for collecting pollen, |
1:56.0 | which they do with their bodies covered in hair. This isn't just any hair. It's often thick, |
2:02.4 | branched, and carries a static charge, perfect for picking up pollen from flowers. |
2:10.6 | A bee's body is divided into three parts, the head, thorax, and abdomen. |
2:17.0 | And they sport two pairs of wings, with the front pair being larger than the rear. Bees are famous for their |
2:20.1 | pollination skills. Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the male part of the flower |
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