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To collect a pound of honey a bee might have to fly a distance equivalent to twice round the world. This is likely to involve more than 10,000 flower visits on perhaps 500 foraging trips.
A worker honeybee in summer lives only 6 to 8 weeks from the time she hatches as an adult bee. Before that, it takes just 3 weeks for her to develop from an egg.

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NBU South-East Region Newsletter 2009

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By Steven Turner (web administrator)

Published 19.Jan.2010, 10:25pm

South-East Region Newsletter 2009 (172 KB)

In this newsletter there is a small error with the phone number for the bee inspector Michael Cooper, his phone number should be: 01622 891 226.

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