There are loads of content about cannabis on the internet that can teach every single aspect of this plant. Someone curious about cannabis or hemp may have dug deep enough to discover man facts about cannabis that you didn’t know.

Such as cannabis or hemp has been titled the oldest cltivated plant for products in the Guinness World Record, and the first US President George Washington used to grow cannabis.

 But the relationship between the cannabis plant and bees may be much more interesting. You could have run up against footage and pictures showing bees sitting on a cannabis plant or its flower. There are not many videos, but enough to wonder why bees are attracted to cannabis Bees are essential to our environment as they pollinate our flowers and plants. Flowers use bees to ensure pollen is transferred form male to female flower parts. In return, they produce a sugary liquid called nectar, which bees use to make honey. However, it may be confusing to see bees landing on this plant as cannabis doesn’t have nectar or vibrant colour or an inebriating odour that generally attractes bees’ attention.

So, why do cannabis plants attract bees?One relevant factor that needs to be considered is that cannabis doesn't rely on insects for pollinating.Cannabis is an anemophilous plant, which means that the pollen is produced by the male cannabis plants and is distributed to the female crops by the wind.This is important because it starts to explain why cannabis crops attract bees. But although you could think, bees are attracted to male cannabis crops, which have pollen, and not to female cannabis plants, which receive pollen from the male counterpart through the wind.Therefore, seeing bees near your female cannabis crops could mean that some cannabis plants may have turned into the hermaphrodite cannabis plant, which is a female plant that produces pollen.

Do bees get high?If you are wondering whether bees get high with the pollen of the male cannabis plant, you may be disappointed knowing that the answer is no.Bees don't get high for at least two reasons.The male cannabis plant doesn't contain THC, the main compound of the cannabis plant that we use for its psychoactive effects. Or, if it has traces of THC, they are so insignificant that anyone cannot get high.But most important is that bees don't have receptors belonging to the endocannabinoid system, which is used to convey THC and other cannabinoids from the cannabis flower to our organism through several methods of use, such as combustion via smoking it or eating cannabis edibles.However, there are still many pieces that we are missing in understanding the relationship between cannabis and bees.If it is true that male cannabis plants have pollen, it is not enough to explain why bees are so attracted to them, given that they need nectar to make honey.

As it is rich in proteins, bees will likely use pollen as a nutrient.An article from a study conducted in India and published in 2012 notes that bees take cannabis pollen only when male plants' reproductive organs release pollen and that bees were only interested in that during a scarcity of pollen.However, some internet sources also show bees landing on flowers of female cannabis flowers, which do not have pollen, although they may contain extrafloral nectar secretion.But this is only one of the hypotheses because little is known about the relationship between cannabis and bees.

Bees landing on the cannabis plant are not as common as you think.Depending on your location, you might see bees a few times a year, more frequently, or not at all.This lack of knowledge makes studying the interaction between cannabis and bees hard.An article published in Bee Culture Magazine explains a naturally occurring source of interest for bees that can be found in the cannabis plant is called honeydew may play a significant role in understanding the relationship between cannabis and bees.The honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid secreted by aphids and other insects that often visit the cannabis plant. "These tiny insects probably concentrate their feeding (and excretion) at the tender surfaces of new plant growth and produce tasty waste products that bees might feed on," the article reads.

Another theory is that bees could collect resin from the cannabis plant to make propolis (also known as bee glue), a resinous mixture that honey bees produce to use as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the beehive.However, more research is needed to understand the exact dynamics that bring bees to buzz around cannabis plants.Some companies market cannabis honey, claiming that this product is made from honeybees, comes directly from hives strategically located near cannabis flowers, and contains THC (in low percentage) or CBD.However, these kinds of products cannot properly be called honey. Instead, they may produce honey-like products of sugar water with CBD, or THC infused, while other companies may directly infuse cannabinoids in traditional honey jars.As previously said, bees don't have an endocannabinoid system, and THC doesn't provide any psychoactive effects on bees.Therefore, bees don't take pollen with THC and other cannabinoid traces back to the colony to make honey because they need nectar, which cannabis doesn't provide.