Honey and You
Amazing Facts About...
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- The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones.
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- Some worker bees are nurse bees. Their job is to feed the larvae.
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- A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection flight from the hive.
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- In order to produce 500g of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited.
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- A hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles to produce 500g of honey.
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- One bee colony can produce 20 to 50 kg of honey per year.
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- An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
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- At the peak of the honey-gathering season, a strong, healthy hive will have a population of approximately 50,000 bees.
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- It would take approximately 30g of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.
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- We should appreciate honeybees for their honey and pollination services. 80% of the pollination of the fruits, vegetables and seed crops in the developed world, is accomplished by honeybees.
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- Honey is the primary food source for the bee. The reason honeybees are so busy collecting nectar from flowers and blossoms is to make sufficient food stores for their colony over the winter months. The nectar is converted to honey by the honeybee and stored in the wax honeycomb.