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Honeybees have hairy eyes. Honeybees fly about 15 m/hr. Bees dance to communicate. If 12 honeybees work together for 4 weeks, they will only make 1 teaspoon of honey. Howplantswork.wordpress.com
If a student grows at the rate of a larva, on Monday he will weight 60lbs, and the next day he will be 330lbs. A healthy colony has about 40,000-60,000 bees during spring & summer. When honeybees sting, they leave the stinger behind. Honeybees have baskets on their legs to help them carry pollen back to the colony.
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For more information, please watch the following PBS special, “Silence of the Bees.”