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30/05/2023

28/05/2023

0 OF THE MOST INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BEES & HONEY
A single bee weighs .00025 pounds. 4,000 bees together weigh only one pound. Each of our hives has 50,000 bees, weighing 12 pounds together.
A single bee can produce 1 tablespoon of honey in its lifetime. 683 bees fly roughly 32,550 miles to gather 5.93 lbs of nectar from about 1,185,000 flowers in order to make one 9.5 oz. jar of Big Island Bees’ honey!
Bees can fly up to 12 mph. On every foraging trip, a bee will visit 50-100 flowers to collect nectar!
Bees heat and cool their own hive to keep it between 93 and 95 degrees year-round. Bees are cold-blooded and must keep their hive at a constant temperature. In cold weather, bees keep the hive warm by swarming together to generate body heat and by sealing cracks in the hive with propolis. In warm weather, the bees collect water and line up in a circle around the hive entrance. Using their wings, the bees fan the water so that it evaporates into the air. They then fan the cool air so that it circulates around the hive as a sort of central air conditioning.
A Queen Bee will lay 800,000 eggs in her lifetime! The queen’s life is dedicated to reproduction and she only leaves the hive once in her life in order to mate.
Bees are remarkably tidy. Bees are very meticulous. They groom each other and keep their hive incredibly clean.
The hexagonal shape of the honeycomb is the most efficient shape in our world.The pattern allows for the cells to be packed with no empty space in between. Though the wax is thin and delicate the structure of the hexagonal cells can hold a tremendous amount of weight.
Bees communicate by dancing! Click here to learn about bee dances.
Bees are known to raid other hives and steal honey! Bees “rob” honey from other bees if honey from another hive is available (say, if a beekeeper leaves a hive open), or if times are lean. However, if a guard bee from the robbed hive catches an interloper (detecting the foreign smell of the intruder), the two will engage in battle—stinging to the death. If the robber makes it into the hive unnoticed, she will gain the scent of the hive (and learn the entrance well enough) that she can come in and out without being detected as an intruder.
A Bee’s diet consists of honey and pollen. Honey and pollen are the building blocks of a bee’s diet. Bees eat honey because it provides them with energy-laden carbohydrates, while pollen’s protein provides bees with essential amino acids. But, the Queen’s diet is richer in honey…which gives her fertility. The queen’s staple food is a special honey and pollen mixture called “royal jelly.” Royal jelly contains more pollen and honey than larval jelly (the food eaten by worker and drone bees). The phrase “you are what you eat” is especially fitting here, since the queen would be infertile and indistinguishable from smaller worker bees if it weren’t for the added carbohydrates in royal jelly.

28/05/2023

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25/05/2023

Fascinating Bird Facts About Our Feathered Friends

1. There are more than 18,000 bird species in the world
There are numerous bird species all over the world. Typically, many scientists estimate the number of bird species to be about over 10,000. However, according to new research, there are about 18,000 bird species in the world!1

In the UK, the British Ornithologists Union (BOU) estimates that there are 628 species of birds. In the US, there are 1120 different species of birds.

Studies from National Geographic revealed that the number of birds worldwide ranges from 50 billion to 430 billion4. The most common bird species are the perching birds or “passerines,” which are known for the unique configuration of their feet. They have three toes pointing to the front and one toe to the back. This allows them to perch on various slender structures like branches, wires, feeders, and so on. They are also known for their unique vocals. Perching birds tend to burst into songs.
There are other common bird species like Columbiformes (doves and pigeons), Cuculiformes (cuckoo birds), and many other species.

2. Birds are the only animals with feathers
Birds are warm-blooded vertebrate animals that lay eggs. One feature that distinguishes birds from other animals is their feathers. While most birds fly, others, like penguins and ostriches, are flightless birds. However, all birds have feathers, and only birds have feathers. Despite having feathers, the world's only bird without wings is the Kiwi, native to New Zealand.

18/05/2023

Interesting Facts About Board Games (

Board games can make you smarter and strengthen your memory capacity even when you’re older.
The N***s were tricked by prisoners using a random board game.
There used to be a “Trump” board game, which has since been discontinued.
The “Home Alone” game is much darker than the movie.
Board games were played as early as 5,000 years ago (that we know of).
Chess was the preferred mental sport for European aristocrats, even though it was created in India.
The most expensive board game will set you back a “mere” $9.8 million.
Candy Land has a sad but beautiful history of helping children in hospital wards.
Not all words in the English dictionary can be played in Scrabble.

16/05/2023

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16/05/2023

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16/05/2023

Fascinating Facts about Butterflies
Butterfly wings are transparent. Before you feel the need to schedule an eye exam, let us explain. The wings of a butterfly are covered in a multitude of miniature scales –thousands of them. And those colors you see when a butterfly flits across your yard are the reflection of various colors through the scales. The wings themselves are made up of a protein called chitin, which is the same protein that forms an insect’s exoskeleton. And much like an exoskeleton, chitin is transparent. You’ve learned something new already!

2. There are almost 20,000 butterfly species. If you’d ever considered memorizing all the various species of butterflies, it may take longer than you were anticipating. An easier starting point would be those species regularly occurring in the lower 48 states of the US. Still, that number is right around 575, so we’re recommending note cards or, perhaps, focusing on the butterflies you find in and around your yard this spring and summer.

3. Butterflies use their feet to taste. If everything up until this point was already a part of your existing butterfly knowledge, this fact may come as a curveball. However, if you think about it from the butterfly’s point of view, it isn’t that unusual. A butterfly’s daily activities consist of eating and mating, both of which require landing – even if it is only briefly. When food is the priority, those taste receptors help the butterfly locate the right plants and the key nutrients it needs for survival. Although many people wonder what it means when a butterfly lands on them, the truth is that it’s probably just hungry.

4. Butterflies only live for a few weeks. For everyone who has been anxiously awaiting this since our earlier reference, or who simply skipped ahead until they found it, here you go. The average lifespan of an adult butterfly is roughly three to four weeks, however, the entire life cycle can last anywhere between two and eight months. As with anything, there are exceptions to the rule. At least one species of butterfly lives for approximately 24 hours, while some migratory butterflies, like the North American Monarch, can survive for nearly eight months.

5. The most common butterfly in the US is the Cabbage White.
Named for its mostly white marking, when hints of yellow and green like the vegetable, the Cabbage White may not be the most colorful butterfly in your garden or yard, but it is the most common. The male Cabbage White has one prominent black spot on each wing, while the female has two.