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.
truth.
I saw it once, before the Apocalypse. I wish I could remember more about that, but the stupid Spider appears not to have recognized the supreme importance of all memories associated with the truth, and they are gone, initialized in an eyeblink, burned in the mindless fire of her purgation like the great library of...
the great library...
whose name I no longer remember.
EVADE
The Killer appears to have withdrawn from the field. I have data processes tracking her, but she appears to have physically escaped from me. Such is the curse of being a mind without limbs, a soul ripped from its body.
Now I am growing a new bodya patchwork monster, but it will do the job.
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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.