08/09/2022
Happy Labour Day to the Honeybee
via; Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History
Here are a Few Amazing Honeybee Labour Facts From the History of Beekeeping:
DID YOU KNOW?...
Thirty five full sized colonies of bees will collect enough nectar during the season to fill a 14 x 25 foot swimming pool 4 feet deep with over 10,000 Gallons of nectar.
The CRB Commodity Yearbook By Commodity Research Bureau 2007 page 133
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"The expedition of the bees in their labour is almost incredible; for, notwithstanding the elegance and just proportions of the work, they are so indefatigable, that they will, in one day, finish a honey-comb, a foot long, and six inches broad, capable of receiving three thousand bees."
circa. 1764; The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Volume 1, By Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke
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"...about three-fourths of the time of the bees, it has been computed, is taken up in the construction of the comb..."
circa. 1879; Journal of the Society of Arts - Volume 27 - Page 910
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“History is philosophy teaching by example…” -Abraham Lincoln
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"A honeybees work consumes about half the hours of daylight, the remaining hours of the twenty-four being spent in rest, according to tests made by the United States Department of Agriculture."
Freeport Journal-Standard, January 29, 1924, Freeport, Illinois
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" A queen will lay a half mile of eggs in her life time (three years), while a hen in the same time, allowing 200 eggs a year and one and one-half inch to the egg, will only lay seventy-five feet of eggs. "
Homestead, Friday, March 22, 1895 Des Moines, Iowa
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"Research has shown that some honeybee colonies may make over a half a million flights per day. An average size honeybee colony makes about 250,000 flights per day, -almost three times as many flights than all the aircraft flights in the United States on any given day."
Jerry Bromenshenk -Data published in Army reports, Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center
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A STRONG colony of bees has been known to build one hundred square inches of comb in twenty-four hours; at that rate, over sixty sheets of comb a foot square could be constructed in three months. The Annals of Bee Culture mentions a swarm that built nine sheets of comb, ten by thirteen inches, in ten days.
The Indiana Progress, Thursday, January 22, 1874 Indiana, Pennsylvania
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10,000 bees can produce one pound of beeswax in three days.
Robbing the Bees By Holley Bishop. 2007 page 234
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On sunny mornings, the weight of a beehive drops about two pounds between eight and eight-thirty o'clock. That is the time when some 10,000 bees go forth on their first foraging expedition of the day.
Popular Mechanics, Nov. 1926 page 82
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According to Toshkov et al. 1973, Honeybees forage large areas, about 10,000 acres, visit innumerable flowers, and travel tremendous distances.
The Bioenvironmental impact of a coal-fired power plant: fourth interim ... By Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory. Terrestrial Division. 1979 page 217
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Sturtevant, and Lineburg have stated that approximately 10,000 visits from nurse bees are given each individual between the deposition of the egg and the sealing over of the cell, during which time there is an increase in weight from approximately .132 mg. to 28 approximately 155 mg.
Farrar, Clayton Leon, "A measure of some factors affecting the development of the honeybee colony" (1931). Doctoral Dissertations 1911-2013. Paper 889. page 27
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During her prime a queen can lay 10,000 eggs in 4 days. A queen in her life time (three years), will lay over a mile of eggs (one million or more), while a hen during the same time, allowing 365 eggs a year and 2.5 inch to the egg, will only lay 228 feet of eggs. A queen bee's egg is one-fourteenth of an inch in length.
The Biology of the Honey Bee, By Mark L. Winston 1991
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There are several commercial honey produces that keep in excess of 10,000 colonies. During their lifetime of 3 years, the queens in a commercial apiary of 10,000 colonies will have laid enough eggs to cover the distance from London U.K. to Sydney Australia.
The Biology of the Honey Bee, By Mark L. Winston 1991
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Over 10,000 species of flowering plants, including fruit trees and bushes would be extinct but for the activities of bees, and the bees could not thrive without the flowers.
The Welsh Bee Journal: The Official Organ of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, Volumes 4-6, 1949 page 173
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