Shadowing-Übung: Facts About Bees! - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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In today's video we are going to learn some fun facts about bees.
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Bees are fascinating flying insects that play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem in our world.
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They are the reason why we are able to enjoy a wide range of resources, particularly food.
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In fact, bees contribute to around one third of the food that we eat.
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This is because they incidentally pollinate the thousands of plants they visit each day.
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We will revisit pollination a little bit later.
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Let's now first learn more interesting facts about bees themselves.
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A bee's body is made up of three parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen.
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A bee's eyes are located on its head.
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Bees have two large compound eyes on the sides of their head
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and they have three simple eyes located at the top of their head.
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Yes, you counted right.
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Bees have five eyes in total.
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The compound eyes help bees to see shapes, whereas the three simple eyes help it to see light.
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These are used for smelling and feeling.
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Bees also have mandibles which are used for grabbing food and biting.
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And lastly is the proboscis which is used to drink water, nectar and honey.
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The thorax is where you will see the wings and legs of a bee.
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Bees have six legs and four wings.
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They have a pair of wings on each side of their body.
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Their incredible wings allow them to flap between 180 to 250 times per second.
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As for the legs of a bee, the front legs are especially designed to clean the antennas.
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The back legs are used to collect pollen in a pollen basket, which is located on a bee's hind legs.
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Each of the six legs have claws on the ends that assist a bee with gripping and landing on different surfaces.
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The largest part of a bee's body is the abdomen, and it's probably the most well -known body part as it's where the stinger is located at the very end.
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Stinging is usually a bee's last resort for self -defense, as sadly, once it decides to use its stinger, it will typically result in the death of a bee.
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Bees have existed for around 30 million years and although they are commonly known as little insects with black and yellow stripes,
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they actually come in different colours and some species even have spots.
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Did you know that there are over 20 ,000 species of bees in the world?
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They range in size from just 2mm to 4mm in length.
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Not all bees are social.
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There are many who live a solitary life, meaning they live alone.
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Even though they live alone, they often nest close to one another.
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Unlike social bees, solitary ones do not have a queen and they do not produce any honey.
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Some solitary species include mason bees, carpenter bees and the hairy -footed flower bees.
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Bees that live together in hives or colonies are social bees.
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They include some popular species like the honeybees and bumblebees.
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Within a beehive there are three main roles that a bee would have which include queens, drones and worker bees.
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The queen bee is essential because without her there would be no hive.
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Once selected and matured her role is to mate, reproduce and spend the rest of her life in the hive laying eggs.
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up to 2000 eggs per day and she is also the one who lives the longest in the colony, surviving up to 5 years.
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Unlike worker bees, a queen bee can sting multiple times and still survive.
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Now let's move on to drone and worker bees.
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It is easier to tell the difference between drone and worker bees up close.
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Drones are male bees and are typically wider in size
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and have rounder abdomens and much larger eyes in comparison to worker bees.
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They do not have stingers and they do not collect pollen.
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Their primary role is to mate with the queen so that she can produce eggs.
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Worker bees have the busiest role in the colony, so the saying "as busy as a bee" is referring to
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worker bees as they work from the time the sun rises right up until sunset.
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Younger working bees have the job of taking care of bee larva, feeding the queen, cleaning the hive and processing and storing nectar as well as making honey.
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Older worker bees have a hugely important job to go foraging to bring back water, nectar and pollen for the whole colony.
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Because they have to go foraging away from the hive, older worker bees have the riskiest and most tiring job of all,
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as they are put in the face of danger from predators every time they leave the hive.
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Regardless of the dangers they face, worker bees carry out their duties to ensure the survival and growth of the colony.
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While carrying out their jobs, bees play a vital role in the process of pollination.
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Pollination is when the male part of the flower is transferred to the female part so that fertilization can occur.
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And this is how bees help to fertilize flowers.
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While bees are foraging through the flowers that they visit, they rummage through the male part of the flowers called the stamen.
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This is where pollen is produced.
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As the bees explore the flower to collect pollen, the pollen gets stuck on their furry bodies.
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And as the bees continue to move around, they incidentally place pollen in the female parts of the flowers called the stigma.
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When this happens, the flower is able to produce in the growth of new flowers.
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It is believed that bees visit thousands of flowers in just one day, so you can imagine just how much pollen they are able to collect.
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The more flowers they visit, the bigger the pollen basket on their hind legs become.
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Once they have collected all the pollen they can carry, worker bees bring it back to the hives so that it can be fed to the young.
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Even though bees play a crucial role in pollinating our crops, they are not the only pollinators in the world.
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Other pollinators include butterflies, birds, beetles and even bats.
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Bees have quite a short lifespan.
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Depending on the species, bees can live between 17 to 60 days.
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And as you can see, they manage to make a huge impact on our environment in the short amount of time that they survive.
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Unfortunately, the population of bees are on the decline.
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There are several factors for this, including disease, loss of habitat and the use of dangerous chemicals that are fatal to bees.
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So the next time you see a bee, remember to leave it alone because it is doing an important job, not only for itself or its colony, but also for us humans too.
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