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To Bee or not to Bee – scientific name – Apis mellifera
Did You Know? The honey bee has been around for 30 million years. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. Honeybee’s wings stroke 11400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.It takes about 556 workers to gather 1 pound of honey from about 2 million flowers. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.A colony of bees consists of 20000-60000 honeybees and one queen.Worker honey bees are female, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.The queen bee …
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Honey Bee’s – The tree was covered!!!
We mentioned to Liz that we saw bee’s swarm williow tree catkins less than a week earlier. Liz asked if we had ‘video’, but of course we do.
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Terry’s Honey Farm Grand Fork BC
Honey production, we have a video coming up on this important industry.
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