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on the distance they have to fly . Bees have a sack in which they carry the nectar . If they fly a mere 200 metres , they burn almost no fuel . But in the case of two kilometres , they burn way more fuel and will have almost no nectar left when they return to the hive .”
According to Deon , the optimal distance to make sense when calculating the fuel used and the nectar returned to the hive is 400 metres to get back to the hive .
If the queen dies , the worker bees will create a queen from an ordinary female , but she will not be as productive as those from the royal lineage .
Bees live an average of 24 days during summer , but up to 100 days in winter . The reality is that during summer they work themselves to death within a very short time . The workers are all female . During an average year , these ladies produce around 10 kilograms of honey per hive . During a really good year that number doubles .
The males are ensconced with the queen to do what ( the birds and ) the bees do . The males can ’ t even feed themselves and are thus pampered by the females . But all is not as honky dory as it sounds . If the males are not performing as well as they should , the ladies haul them out of the queen ’ s boudoir and out of the hive where the poor
6 . The honey cheesecake is to die for , but no , you will not get the recipe .
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