Animals
Honey Bee
Pollinator superorganism · Apis mellifera
An individual forager lives 6 weeks; the hive lives indefinitely. Hexagonal wax cells minimise building material, the waggle dance encodes direction and distance, and the entire colony thermoregulates to ±0.5 °C.
Key specifications
Body length
12 – 15 mm
Wingbeats
~200 / sec
Colony
20,000 – 80,000
Pollinates
~75% of major crops
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