Unbelievable Honey Bee Facts

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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We already know honey bees are incredible creatures, but Hilary Kearney shares a few facts that will blow your mind even further. Connect With Hilary Kearney: Hilary Kearney is the founder of Girl Next Door Honey and the author of Queenspotting and The Little Book of Bees. Girl Next Door Honey Queenspotting The Little Book of Bees Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you have been wanting to keep these, like I have, haven't done it yet, or just want
0:18.1	to learn more about our pollinator ecosystem in the garden, then this week is going to
0:22.0	be great for you.
0:23.0	My friend Hilary Kerney is on the podcast.
0:25.0	She's the founder of Girl Next Door Honey, she's actually a local San Diego as well, and
0:29.0	the author of Queen Spotting and the little book of bees, and I think Hilary, it's kind
0:33.3	of crazy that you haven't been on the podcast yet.
0:35.3	Yeah, it is crazy.
0:37.3	Yeah, well, welcome, and I'm glad that I know today we're talking about the coolest honeybee
0:43.0	facts, which I think you've shared some of them with me when we've chatted before, but
0:47.9	why don't we blow some people's minds?
0:49.4	Oh, there's so many good ones.
0:53.1	So one of my favorite ones is like the way that they see things.
0:57.2	So honeybees have five eyes.
0:59.5	They have two like obvious eyes that you probably notice if you look at them, and then they
1:03.6	have three little secret eyes on the top of their forehead.
1:07.4	But the way they see is they see kind of like a mosaic image, so it's broken up.
1:11.7	And their eyes, the two big ones are, they're actually tiled with like all these thousands
1:16.3	of lenses and their hexagonal shapes.
1:18.6	So it's like the honeycomb pattern is actually on their eyes, and that is how they see the
1:23.9	world and with that kind of pixelated pattern.
1:27.0	But they see, they're kind of like t-rex, right?
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