The 10 things you didn’ t know about bees:
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Honey Bees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
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Honey Bees pollinate 25 % of ALL the foods humans consume.
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Honey Bees make an average of 1,600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey.
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The average honey bee worker( female) makes 1 / 12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
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Approximately 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce one pound of beeswax.
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Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life.
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A 12-19 days old bee produces wax through 8 wax glands.
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1,250,000 bees are required for producing 2.2 pounds of wax. The antennae are used as trowel when constructing the combs.
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Queen bees will lay as many as 2,000 eggs on a good day, an average of one every 45 seconds.
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Honey bees must visit some 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey
By Stephanie Huerta: http:// www. stephaniehuerta. com