Amazing facts about bees!

In the summer, a single beehive has:

1 queen
250 drones
20,000 female foragers
40,000 female house-bees
5,000 to 7,000 eggs
7,000 to 11,000 larvae being fed
16,000 to 24,000 larvae developing into adults in sealed cells

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The average worker bee makes 1 1/2 teaspoons of honey in her lifetime.

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Bees are fully grown when they are born.

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For centuries, bees have been used to guard valuables. In India bandits used the large Asian honeybee Apis Dorsata to guard loot near mountain caves.

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Bees pollinate plants like watermelon and tomatoes. Without bees, about one-third of the food we eat would not be available!

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Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit in their central brood nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is 110 or -40 degrees.

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Bee stingsmost of the time, when people think they have been stung by a bee, they have actually really been stung by a yellow jacket. Yellow jackets are not bees! Yellow jackets can sting you multiple times. When a bee stings, it dies.