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Betterbee list of fun facts about honey and honeybees

Check out this fun website that offers many more facts about honey and the bees that produce it!

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Did you know that...

Honey never spoils? Bees are so important not just to the environment, but also to humans. Honey is an amazing resource that can be used for many things and if bees become extinct we will lose much more than just honey.

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The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance traveled and foraging efficiency.

http://www.benefits-of-honey.com/honey-bee-facts.html

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Capturing the swarm, 15 pounds of bees!

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in my apiology class today, we practiced doing “apiary checks” - opening up a hive and assessing its state. ideally this should be quick, but since we’re beginners, we were slow.

when bees visit flowers, they will sip nectar from multiple flowers, and store it in their ‘crop’ (a special stomach, in a way) until they get home. once back, their sisters can receive the collected nectar from them and store it in the honeycomb, where it will slowly become honey as it dries and ferments.

as foraging honeybees get to where nectar is stored in a flower, they brush up against the flower parts which hold pollen. it gets all over them, and then they use their legs to collect what’s on them into their ‘pollen baskets’ on their back legs. you can see those in these pictures as clusters of orange and yellow!

because we took so long, these lovely ladies who came home from foraging weren’t able to come in. they need their sisters’ help offloading the pollen, but since they can’t enter the hive right now, they’re waiting around on a classmate’s backpack. once we were done, they happily headed inside. :)

Check out this great article about neonicotinoids, it answers a lot of questions.

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Did you know...

That there are about 45 species of bumble bees in North America?!

Source: http://ento.psu.edu/publications/are-neonicotinoids-killing-bees

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one of my favourite vines 🐝 “High five ☺🐝 Hilarious Happenings”

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honey to the bee that’s you for me 🌼🐝 http://ift.tt/1PB9XKj

I just signed a petition to Senator Bill Montford: Tallahassbee, a campaign that spreads awareness of bee population(s), wants all harmful pesticide use in Tallahassee to cease. This petition will be sent to Senator Bill Montford, who is chair of Florida's agriculture committee. We need to help bees in our community, for the betterment of everyone. Add your voice to the cause!

Don’t forget to sign our petition to send to Florida Senator Bill Montford!

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A beautiful photo taken by our friend, Alana Arnold! Check out her photography at https://www.facebook.com/Alana-Arnold-Photography-138701446213551/?fref=ts

Please do not take this photo without permission from Alana Arnold.

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Did you know...

That neonicotinoids are some of the main chemicals in pesticides that are responsible for killing bees? It is chemically similar to nicotine!

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