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Apiculture and The Honey Bee
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Bees visit flowers, collect nectar and convert it into
a golden-yellow aromatic viscous fluid called honey,
which is aptly called the liquid gold of nature. There
is nothing comparable to honey, whether natural or man-
made. It is a complete food made and stored by
honeybees for use by the whole colony during lean
period.
Honey bee workers possess remarkable ability and
stamina to collect nectar and pollen from flowers and
convert it into honey and bee bread. To make 500 grams
of honey, bees have to extract nectar from more than 4
million flowers, for which they have to make about
50,000 trips of the foraging area of 5 km radius,
which would come to roughly 5 times the circumference
of earth. Workers of a single bee colony collectively
make approximately 2-3 million flower visits in a day.
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