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How much honey can a bee produce?

In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.

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Do you know what a bung hole is?

A bung hole borer bores the hole in the keg for the spout

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Honey production

A bee must tap 4 million flowers to make 2lbs. of honey. There are 3 million honey producing colonies in the United States.

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How does a bee turn nectar into honey?

The bee collects nectar, regurgitates it, passes it to worker bee, then the worker bee transforms the nectar into honey by evaporating most of the water out of it.

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Are some bees nocturnal?

There are four bee families, Andrenidae, Colletidae, Halictidae and Apidae that have greatly enlarged ocellis (one type of eye), which are extremely sensitive to light. This causes them to be active only at dusk or in the early evening.

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