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Bee-hind The Buzz
Birds & Blooms
|August/September 2019
Learn the sweet truth about these honey producers.
60,000 Hives have a very strict social structure composed of three groups: queens, workers and drones. There’s only one queen in healthy hives, plus 2,000 to 60,000 female workers that collect pollen and keep the hive running, and up to 500 larger male drones whose main job is to mate with the queen bee.
This story is from the August/September 2019 edition of Birds & Blooms.
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