MINI BELIEVE IT OR NOT –

Honeybees that get drunk on fermented tree sap are denied access to the hive and are often attacked by the sober bees.

  • Being drunk effects bees in much the same way it does humans
  • Drunk bees have more flying accidents and have a hard time finding their way back to the hive
  • If they do make it back, the drunk bees will be attacked by other bees and its legs will be chewed off
  • It’s possible that the drunk bee is seen as posing a threat to the safety of the hive

MINI BION EXTRAS

  • The honeybee kills more people around the world each year than do all the poisonous snakes in the world put together
  • The blood of a honeybee will not clot
  • Honeybee undertakers constitute up to 2% of the hive population. And their task is to remove dead bees from the hives

MINI BION

“BIONs” – short for Believe It or Not – is the word we use at Ripley’s to refer to anything that is unbelievable and worthy to become part of Ripley’s lore and collection.