"::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org> wrote in
news:hfuqd3lja20sn4733sd497epr0ciu92omb@4ax.com:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:05:59 GMT, Electricity <Sparks@insideme.vp>
> wrote:
>
>>"::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org> wrote in
>>news:tq8pd39t6s20duu900sgcal943m4hr4tdi@4ax.com:
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>
One E too many but well done for using your brain LOL.
Mercury.
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