{"id":4965,"date":"2011-03-13T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:00:49","slug":"honey-bees-assign-jobs-based-on-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/honey-bees-assign-jobs-based-on-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Bees Assign Jobs Based on Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/honey-bee-jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4966\" title=\"honey-bee-jobs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/honey-bee-jobs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/honey-bee-jobs.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/honey-bee-jobs-340x263.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Honey Bee Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/honey-bees-know-the-world-is-round-and-can-calculate-angles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Honey Bee Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honey Bees share out jobs based on their age.\u00a0 For instance, worker bees that are 1-2 days old spend their time cleaning cells, starting with the one they were born in, as well as keeping the brood warm; from 3-5 days old, they feed older larvae;\u00a0 from 6-11 days old, they feed the youngest larvae; from 12-17 days old, they produce wax, build combs, carry food, and perform undertaker duties; from 18-21 days old, they get guard duty, protecting the hive entrance;\u00a0 from 22 days on until their death at around 40-45 days, they get to fly from the hive collecting pollen, nectar, water, pollinating plants, and things of this nature.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Honey Bee Facts Honey Bees share out jobs based on their age.\u00a0 For instance, worker bees that are 1-2 days old spend their time cleaning cells, starting with the one they were born in, as well as keeping the brood warm; from 3-5 days old, they feed older larvae;\u00a0 from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[890,1302],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-honey-bee-facts","tag-honey-bee-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}