If you enjoyed reading Abrar’s research about how bees can survive the heat of Qatar then you will really enjoy this article where Jana goes deeper into how we can observe whether our bees are getting too warm and how they use water molecules to create their own air conditioning. Like Abrar, I am researching about how bees are able to survive in the heat of Qatar during the summer. I chose to research this topic because bees mostly have a thick guard layer of skin and in Qatar, it could get up to around 47 degrees, so I wondered how the bees are able to survive. At rst, I thought that bees would not live long but you will nd out later about some interesting information! There are several ways that bees can regulate their temperatures and not die from extreme heat. Many people think that bees can easily die because they have a thick layer of skin which ends up causing them to faint. However, just like humans, bees adapt to the condition, and as a result, they will not die from overheating.
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How they protect themselves in the extreme heat is by placing a few droplets of water onto their outer surface of the honeycomb in the empty cells and then they ap their wings at a very fast rate which causes the water droplets to evaporate. When the water droplets evaporate, the molecules that are in the water droplets enter the air
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Is it getting too hot for our bees? ( Jana 6C)
