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Did You Know?!?!?!

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- A bee hive can contain between 20-80 thousand bees...with only one Queen

- A healthy queen lays around 2500 eggs a day. She is busiest in the summer

- Bee's wax takes eight times the amount of energy to make over honey

- Worker bees live approx. 40 days, during this time they will produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey. They literally work themselves to death.  

-Queens live for 2-5 years. 

 - In the winter, the drones get kicked out and the workers live much longer...up to three months

- Bees take up to 30 minutes to use the bathroom after holding it all winter

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Three types of bees in a hive

- Every Queen is a normal worker bee when her egg is laid. It isn't until the other workers decide to turn her into a queen and feed her Royal Jelly that she gets her special characteristics.  

- This does not happen unless the hive looses their queen or chooses to supersede the existing one.


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Life Cycle of a Bee

- A Queen Bee takes 16 days to emerge after being laid

- Worker Bees (ladies) take 24 days

- Drones (males) take 21 days

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- Honey bees are great flyers. They fly at a speed of around 15.5 miles per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second! 

- Bees visit 50-100 flowers in one collecting flight

- To make one pound of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited (approx. 55,000 flight miles)


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Bee Hives

- There are many different types of hives but the Langstroth Hive is by far the most popular and my chosen hive type 

- It is comprised of a base, different layers (all containing 10 frames), and a top

- The two most common size boxes used are the "deep" where brood is stored, and a "medium/ super", where the honey is stored.

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Separating the honey from the Brood

- A "Queen Excluder" is placed between the brood box and the super during the "Flow". This is when they make their honey

- By not letting the queen upstairs, she can not lay eggs and the area is dedicated for honey only.

- "super" frames that are filled from edge to edge with honey weigh approx. 7-10 lbs.

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Pollen Charts

- A "Resource Frame" is usually packed with pollen. My honey is considered, "wildflower" honey as the girls collect pollen from whatever is blooming at the time. 

- Sometimes a frame of pollen can be almost rainbow colored.

-Pollen charts like this help me to determine what the girls are collecting and how far they are traveling from their hives.

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