Episode Details

Did you know that one single honey bee makes only one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her entire life? That is not even enough for one tiny bite of toast! Join Mira and Finn on a buzzing adventure to find out exactly what a honey bee is and how these amazing little insects make liquid gold! We will shrink down to step inside a busy hive packed with eighty thousand bees and discover their incredible secrets. You will learn how worker bees use hairy built-in straws to slurp up sweet flower nectar, wear tiny yellow boots made of pollen, and even sweat wax to build perfect honeycomb hexagons! Plus, discover the famous "waggle dance"—a secret, wiggling figure-eight dance bees use in pitch-black darkness to give each other directions to the best flowers. Prepare to have your mind blown as we find out how a hive flies a combined fifty-five thousand miles—more than twice around the whole Earth—just to make one single pound of delicious honey! Tune in to find out why our world absolutely depends on these fuzzy, fantastic flying machines!