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A colony of honey
bees is made up of
a queen, up to 60,000
female worker bees,
and hundreds of male,
stingless drones.
Bee wings flap POLLEN BASKETS
230 times per
second, creating
a buzzing sound.
It takes
800 bees to
make enough
honey to fill
a 1 lb
(450 g) jar. Bees feed on flower pollen
and take it back to the hive
for the colony. Using their
middle legs, they brush
Honey is the only food pollen caught on their
that never spoils. hairy body into “baskets”
Perfectly preserved on their back legs.
pots thousands of years
old have been found in
ancient Egyptian tombs.
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