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A single worker bee produces less than a teaspoon of honey in her entire lifetime.
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To make just one kilo of honey, bees fly over 85,000 kilometers, roughly two trips around the Earth, and visit more than two million flowers.
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On her most active days, a worker bee can fly the equivalent of one full lap around the planet.
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A hive can produce up to two kilos of honey on a single good day, and needs 35 kilos stored away just to survive the winter.
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Worker bees usually live 50 to 60 days, sometimes up to 90, and manage to do so much in so little time because the knowledge is already written into them.
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The queen, nurtured exclusively on royal jelly, can live 6 to 7 years. Every healthy hive has strictly one.
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Bees and other pollinators are behind roughly 30% of the food we eat worldwide.
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Honey never spoils. It may be the only food that truly never goes bad.
