Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rolex
Subject: Re: Teaching Mercury continues....
Message-ID: <hfuqd3lja20sn4733sd497epr0ciu92omb@4ax.com>
References: <tq8pd39t6s20duu900sgcal943m4hr4tdi@4ax.com> <Xns99A147EFF60F6vicpal@140.99.99.130>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000772-2, 09/04/2007), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Lines: 70
X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy!
X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:31:01 GMT
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.fan.rolex:4771
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:05:59 GMT, Electricity <Sparks@insideme.vp>
wrote:
>"::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org> wrote in
>news:tq8pd39t6s20duu900sgcal943m4hr4tdi@4ax.com:
>
>>
>>
>> Amazing Honey Bee Facts
>>
>>
>> To produce a pound of honey , a bee must tap into two million flowers.
>>
>> Honey bees must fly over 55,000 miles to produce one pound of honey.
>>
>> A worker honey bee makes only 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her life time.
>>
>> Honey bee wings flap 11,400 / sec. and fly at 15 miles per hour.
>>
>> Worker bees make 10 to 15 collection trips per day.
>>
>> Nurse bees heads exude Royal Jelly to feed larvae and the queen.
>>
>> Wax bees secreate beeswax to build hexagonal honeycomb cells.
>>
>> The honey bee has six legs, four wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.
>>
>> Honey bees have been producing honey for 10 to 20 million years.
>>
>> Modern science says it is aerodynamically impossible for bees to fly.
>>
>> A beehive appears on the Utah state seal, Utah is the beehive state.
>>
>> An estimated 220,000 U.S. beekeepers manage 3.2 million bee hives.
>>
>> A worker bee visits up to 100 flowers during one collection trip.
>>
>> Honey bees dance to communicate direction and distance of flowers.
>>
>> Annually a bee hive makes more than 400 lbs. honey and 40 lbs. pollen.
>>
>> Worker honey bees, the girls, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.
>>
>> Worker honey bees, the girls, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.
>>
>> Drone bees, the boys, have no stingers, and do no work, only mating.
>>
>> Queen bees, only one per hive, lay up to 2,500 eggs per day.
>>
>> Bees are insects in the scientific order Hymenoptera as Apis mellifera
>>
>> Apitherapy; uses bee venom, and bee products for medicinal purposes.
>>
>> Honey consumption per capita in the U.S.,1.1 lbs., in Germany 9.5 lbs.
>>
>> It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.
>>
>> Honey bees are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators.
>>
>> U.S.D.A. estimates about 1100 honey bee stings are required to be
>> fatal.
>>
>>
>
>To Bee or not to Bee.
>
>Angry Dancer.
I know of your love of bees. LOL
|
|