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2.  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

3.  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. www.vegetus.org/honey/pollen/htm

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10. For more information, please watch the following PBS special, “Silence of the Bees.” http://video.pbs.org/video/995224587/program/97 9358043