Fun Honey
Bee Facts
did you know...
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It takes 12 bees their whole life to make a teaspoon of honey
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Bees visit
50-100 flowers
per trip
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Bees smell is 50 times more powerful than a dog
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Wax comes from a stomach gland in the Bee
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It takes 10kg
of pollen to
produce 1kg of Honey
(And to produce 10kgs of pollen it takes 4 million flowers and a bee to fly the equivalent of 3 times round the world)
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Bee Venom is stronger than cobra snake Venom
(19 stings per kg of body weight would be required to be deadly not considering a person who is an anaphylactic)
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Bees fly at 24km per hour and weigh 1/10 of a gram
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Bees have Jointed legs -no kneecaps
so there’s really is no such thing as the bees knees
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Bees carry half there body weight
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Bees
don’t sleep
but worker/flying bees will rest at night