Do bees poop?

To answer the question that we know you have all been buzzing to know, in short Yes…bees do poop and it’s all yellow, just like all the food they eat!

 After landing on a luscious looking lavender plant and feasting on some nectar, bees will push the nectar from their honey stomach into the rest of the digestive system.

 We then arrive at the next sector, which is the Midgut. This is where the nutrients that the bees are digesting can be absorbed by the rest of the body.

This brings us to the final section: the hindgut. Now this is where the magic happens

Bees have an intestine and a rectum just like us and use it just how we do!

 You know how you only like doing your business in particular places? Well… Bees are exactly the same! Depending on whether you’re a worker, drone or queen, you won’t always be dropping the kids off at the pool in the comfort of your own home.

Worker bees will always use the big white telephone outside the hive, whereas the drones, larvae and the queen are quite happy to sit on the throne inside.

If you thought worker bees already had to work hard enough by fetching the nectar every day, you’d be wrong.

Come springtime, the workers clean out the muck that their “hivemates” have left for them. See that yellow stuff floating in the air? Yeah, not all of it is pollen. The workers will go about their daily lives acting like a crop duster. Only for poop.

 So next time you’re out, enjoying a beautiful day in early spring, spare a thought for those worker bees.