{"id":15433,"date":"2020-03-03T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverdolphin.wpengine.com\/?p=15433&preview=true&preview_id=15433"},"modified":"2020-03-03T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T21:37:37","slug":"the-buzz-on-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdolphinbooks.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-buzz-on-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buzz on Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They\u2019re fast, they\u2019re tiny, they\u2019re extremely important, and they\u2019re fascinating. Here\u2019s some fun trivia about bees. (There\u2019s a lot more to them than just stinging and honey.)<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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1. Agriculture greatly depends on honey bees, and their pollination duties. They\u2019re responsible for the growth of 50 different cash crops in the U.S., with an estimated total value of $20 billion. Of that figure, $2.5 billion is from California\u2019s bee-pollinated almond industry alone.<\/p>\n

2. And we\u2019re lucky they\u2019re here at all. Bees are not native to North America. They were brought over by European settlers who knew their value even back in the 1600s.<\/p>\n

3. The average speed of a bee in flight: about 15 miles per hour.<\/p>\n

4. Why do bees buzz? That\u2019s the sound of their wings, which flap at a rate of 11,000 times a second.

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Come face to face with fascinating bugs in this stunning photographic collection, Eyes on Insects!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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5. They work hard, but they\u2019re very small \u2014 over the course of its life, a honeybee will generate one-half of one teaspoon of honey.<\/p>\n

6. A pound of honey is the result of the collected efforts of lots of bees, having tapped around two million flowers to make that jar.<\/p>\n

7. Bees have two stomachs \u2014 one for food, and one for storing honey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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8. Bees sleep just five hours a day. They\u2019ll hold each other\u2019s legs while they do, so they don\u2019t fall down into the hive.<\/p>\n

9. There are certain tasks assigned to different bees in a hive \u2014 scout bees go out and hunt, while soldier bees work to protect the hive. However, about one percent of all older bees change jobs and work to remove dead bees out of the hive. Bees change positions all the time, and amazingly, their brain chemistry completely changes beforehand.<\/p>\n

10. When bees find a great source of nectar, it will lead its bee brethren to the spot. It tells them by doing a \u201cwaggle dance,\u201d which communicates \u201ccoordinates\u201d of sort, relative to the location of the hive and the sun.<\/p>\n

11. A beekeeper in Australia taught his dog to sniff out bee diseases that can wipe out a colony. To allow \u201cBazz the Beekeeper\u201d to safely inspect a hive, the human beekeeper designed a special, dog-sized protective suit.<\/p>\n

12. Beekeepers try to not eat bananas. The reason: The smell they give off is almost identical to the odor of the pheromones that bees give off that alert other bees of a danger.<\/p>\n

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Not bugged by bees and other insects? Then you and your kid will love Eyes on Insects <\/em><\/a>by Ruth Strother. It\u2019s available now from <\/strong>Silver Dolphin Books<\/strong><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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