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Some Interesting Facts About Honey Bees

A bee flies through the meadows, fields, orchards, and gardens visiting flowers and carrying pollen from one flower to another. This helps the plants form fruits and seeds. Each flight is about one hour. Each bee makes about 10 flights per day. On these flights the bee gathers water, bee glue (for the hive), nectar (for honey), and pollen to feed the larva. A bee visits 50 to 100 flowers per flight. A honey bee's work is never done.

During the busy season, i.e. when there is an abundance of flowers, e.g. spring and parts of summer, the bees fly till they drop and this greatly reduces their already short life span.

Honey bees have been around, virtually unchanged for 150,000,000 years. During this time they have developed a relationship with many plants that can not now be broken or the plants will not survive.

This has already happened in parts of China. They wiped out the entire honey bee population through careless use of insecticides and all the plants that depended on them have also now died out. This makes most forms of agriculture there very laborious and difficult as the pollination has to be done by hand if there is to be a crop.

This act of pollination is to the bee just an accidental occurance when they collect nectar for the hive. But, over the years the plants have improved the supply of nectar available to the hone bees to encourage them to visit, thereby spreading the pollen.

It is said that the average worker bee only makes about 1/12 (one twelvth) of a teaspoon of honey on its life. Just imagine how many bees and how many trips to the flowers it took to make that jar of hone on your kitchen. Busy little fellas anen't they?