Zeke Freeman's The Buzz

80

Percentage of vital pollination the honeybee is directly responsible for, accounting for 2/3 of the world's food we eat.

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3x

Equivalent of the number of times a bee must fly around the earth to gather a single tablespoon of honey.

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500

Number of pounds of honey a healthy colony of bees can produce a year.

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2nd

Spot Honey-combs hold for strongest structure in the world, besides pyramids.

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Dance

What Scout bees do to report a nectar source to the rest of the hive. The dance describes the nectar source and location in relation to the sun.

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15

Miles per hour a bee flies. In comparison, a true fly in the genus Forcipomyia beats its wings over 62,000 cycles per minute. The Australian dragonfly Austrophlebia costalis has been clocked flying at a speed of 36 mph.

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1%

Percentage of wild bees left in the United States due to pesticide misuse. The rest are tended by beekeepers.

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Heat

Typical grocery store honey comes from Chine or Argentina and are heated to great extremes to prevent crystallization on the shelf, creating a homogenous and often duller taste.

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85%

Percentage of crops beekeepers are conracted to pollinate all over the United States each year.

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5

Number of eyes a bee possess. The three ocelli are simple eyes that discern light intensity, while each of the two large compound eyes contains about 6,900 facets and is well suited for detecting movement. In fact, honeybees can perceive movements that are separated by 1/300th of a second. Humans can only sense movements separated by 1/50th of a second. Were a bee to enter a cinema, it would be able to differentiate each individual movie frame being projected.

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Collapse

A term used in Colony Collapse Disorder, which describes a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term was first applied to a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies in North America in late 2006. Significant because global agricultural crops are pollinated by bees

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