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After taking these shot I decided to  read up on  our little friends not really knowing  much about them, I was surprise that the working bee (male bees)  takes 21 days to  fully grow and the drone bee (female) 24 day while the queen who can live  2-5 years and  is feed a diet of the richest honey and becomes fully developed after 16 days. Interesting the working bee is the smallest and can live up  to six and eights weeks. The drone bees mate with the queen and die soon after mating. Drones that are unsuccessful at mating are chase away from the colony and end up dying from  starvation and cold temperature. 

A also thought it interesting  an individual worker bee is capable of making about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. That takes the life's work of 12 bees to  produce one teaspoon. Figuring it out it was said  it takes 768 honey bees to  make a 12oz  jar   of honey, amazing!

Interesting   notice the pollen of my  bees .

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19 hours ago, Henry Taylor said:

After taking these shot I decided to  read up on  our little friends not really knowing  much about them, I was surprise that the working bee (male bees)  takes 21 days to  fully grow and the drone bee (female) 24 day while the queen who can live  2-5 years and  is feed a diet of the richest honey and becomes fully developed after 16 days. Interesting the working bee is the smallest and can live up  to six and eights weeks. The drone bees mate with the queen and die soon after mating. Drones that are unsuccessful at mating are chase away from the colony and end up dying from  starvation and cold temperature. 

A also thought it interesting  an individual worker bee is capable of making about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. That takes the life's work of 12 bees to  produce one teaspoon. Figuring it out it was said  it takes 768 honey bees to  make a 12oz  jar   of honey, amazing!

Interesting   notice the pollen of my  bees .

Interesting information Hank.

Great photo work also.

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