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Honey
crops in the US depend on
honeybees for pollination?
bees to equal the weight
of one M&Ms chocolate
candy...
or 13.7 kilometers...
60,000 bees in the
average beehive...
and 3 simple eyes...
eggs in one day...she eats 80X her
own weight every day - like a 12
year old child eating 6,400
pounds of food a day...
180 times per second...
you because they will die if they
do while a wasp or hornet will
sting you more than once and
live to sting you another day...
own weight in nectar or 1/6th
its own weight in pollen...
as 1/300th of a second, 6X
faster than a person can see...
ultraviolet light;
people cannot...
weeks in the summer time...
live 2-8 years...
they do not sting...
the hive in the fall so they don't have
to feed them over the winter...
earth 146-174 million
years ago...
earth 30 million years ago...
earth 3X longer than the
North American Rocky
Mountains have existed...
honey from flowers for
10-20 million years...
Spanish cave painting from 6,000 B.C...
bee makes
1/12th a
teaspoon of
honey in her
lifetime...
make one pound of honey...
miles to collect the nectar for
one pound of honey...
flowers each trip...
1.31 pounds of honey every year...
Beehive State...
US today, keeping about 3 million hives of
honeybees...
