# The Mysterious Bee

Produced by Phil Simon Nature Films

Footage shot inside a hive illustrates the bee's amazingly complex society. Shows the queen laying eggs and relaying whining "morse code" messages, police and nurse bees on the job, and worker bees air-conditioning the hive to a constant 34 degrees by fanning their wings. Describes how queens are developed, what happens when there is a population explosion, and some aspects of beekeeping, including building the hives and extracting the honey

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1981
- Runtime: 24 min
- Genres: Education, Nature, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/themysteriousbee)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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