• Question: If bee's get hurt how do they recover?

    Asked by anon-224562 to Scott on 21 Nov 2019.
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      Scott Dwyer answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      It depends on how badly! Most of the time if they get hurt badly they may die. I have seen a bee without a leg before though.

      What’s really fascinating is that in the hive there are ‘undertaker bees’ which help by removing dying or close to death bees from the hive so they don’t spread disease.

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