HAVE
YOU EVER WONDERED HOW BEES MAKE HONEY?
Honey bees are one of God’s most
fascinating creations. During the
adult life span of a worker bee (about 45 days during the summer months) she
will make countless trips to collect nectar from numerous flowers to produce
approximately 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
The worker bee extracts nectar from flowers and stores it in “honey
sacks” located in the abdomen and then deposits the nectar into honeycombs
located in the bee hive. The worker
bee then fans the nectar with her wings to evaporate excess water.
When the honey has aged wax is used to seal it in the comb.
Fast
Facts
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Worker
bees will make over 154 trips for 1 teaspoon of honey
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One
hive consists of large groups of 30,000 to 60,000 bees.
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To
produce 1 pound of honey, bees fly a distance of more than 3 times around the
entire world.
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To
produce 1 pound of honey, bees must visit over 2 million flowers.
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A
worker bee’s adult life span is approximately 45 days
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Over
an entire lifespan, 1 bee will make about 1/12th of a teaspoon of
honey
WHO’S
THE QUEEN BEE?
There is only one queen bee in
each colony or hive of bees (30,000 to 60,000 bees).
There are three kinds of bees in each hive: workers, drones and the
queen. Worker bees comprise the
majority of the population in each hive. There
are tens of thousand of workers, hundreds of drones, and just one queen.
Fast
Facts
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Queen
is only bee capable of laying eggs
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The
queen is attended by other works and never leaves the hive
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Drones
are the only males
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They
also are attended by the workers
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The
Drones only purpose is to mate with the queen after mating the Drone dies
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Workers
are all sterile females
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Workers
are responsible for many tasks including: producing honey, feeding other bees,
collecting pollen, making beeswax, and protecting and maintaining the hive.
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