Non-honey bees

I did such a drawing of a bee (which was meant to be male Hoplitis cristatula, with his lovely bright blue eyes), and when I put it on my Facebook page, a friend of mine asked me if bees can hear.

Yes, they can! But not too well. They can receive frequencies between 20 and 500 Hz, so far narrower range than humans. Their hearing organs are located on their antennae, at the base of flagellum. These informations apply to honeybees, I don’t know about other bees being studied in this respect but I suppose it is pretty much the same between species.