Amazing facts about bees!
In
the summer, a single beehive has:
1 queen
250 drones
20,000
female foragers
40,000 female house-bees
5,000 to 7,000 eggs
7,000
to 11,000 larvae being fed
16,000 to 24,000 larvae developing into
adults in sealed cells
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The average worker bee makes 1 1/2 teaspoons
of honey in her lifetime.
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Bees are fully grown when they are born.
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For
centuries, bees have been used to guard valuables. In India bandits
used the large Asian honeybee Apis Dorsata to guard loot near mountain
caves.
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Bees
pollinate plants like watermelon and tomatoes. Without bees,
about one-third of the food we eat would not be available!
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Bees maintain
a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit in their central brood nest
regardless of whether the outside temperature is 110 or -40 degrees.
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Bee
stings—most of the time, when people think they have been stung by a bee,
they have actually really been stung by a yellow jacket. Yellow jackets
are not
bees! Yellow jackets can sting you multiple times. When a bee stings, it
dies.
