Carlos' Dead Bee........

Here is a picture of Carlos' Deceased Mancunian Bee. It was the property of Carlos, the Worlds Worst Bee Keeper©. He has only one Bee and this is it. It died yesterday. Carlos says the animals death was an accident. Mr Flowerday (18) claims the apis mellifera became agitated whilst being being leashed and died of a heart attack. However, the police are treating the death as suspicious.

It's well known fact that Bees make Honey, but did you know that Wasps make Mustard? I thought not. Here's some more Bee Trivia;

* Honeybees are one of the very few invertebrates in which sleep-like behavior, similar in many respects to mammalian sleep, is known to exist.

* Honey, as well as propolis, has antibiotic properties.

* Honeybees are one of the very few invertebrates that produce a sort of "milk" for their young,royal jelly, which is the only food the larvae will eat early in development.

* Like other social insects, they have an advanced immune system.

* They have specially modified hairs on their body that develop a static electricity charge to attract pollen grains to their bodies.

* They have a well developed sense of time (circadian rhythm).

* It is impossibe to fit more than five bees under the human foreskin at once.

* Their aging is controlled by a hormone which regulates the production of a protein called vitellogenin.

* The honeybee was a prominent political symbol in the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte, representing the Bonapartist bureaucratic and political system.

* Honeybees have a form of non-viable parthenogenesis. Although the workers are able to produce drones as offspring, the drones' main purpose is to mate with the queen. Should the queen die, the drones do not reproduce.

Want to know what a dog would look like if dressed as a bee? then you need to visit www.beedogs.com

*Pats self on back for not making one Bee related pun*