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I have always thought bees were fascinating. Did you know that it takes 10,000 worker bees to gather a pound of honey? Some other cool bee facts: 1) A honey bee flies up to 15 mph and its wings beat 200 times per second or 12,000 beats / minute. 2) Bees fly the equivalent of more than twice around the world to gather a pound of honey. 3) Nectar as gathered by the bee contains about 70% water (Honey is about 17% water). Bees remove the excess moisture from nectar by rapidly fanning their wings over the open cells in the hive. 4) The value of bees pollinating fruits, vegetables and legumes is 10 times the value of honey produced. Natural pollinators are disappearing rapidly and each year we become more dependent on honey bees for many of our daily foods. 5) Honey is one of the safest foods - most harmful bacteria cannot live in honey for any length of time.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:04:54 +0000

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