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Bees have six legs, four wings and five eyes

There is only one queen per hive

There could be up to 40,000 worker bees, which are all female

Queens can live for several years

We need bees to pollinate our food

Bees cannot see the colour red

Bees only sting if they think they or their hive is in danger

Honey bees need to visit two million flowers to make one pound of honey

Honey bees communicate with one another using smell and also dance

A honey bee flaps its wings about 12,000 times per minute

A typical healthy hive may contain up to 60,000 honey bees during peak times

The average summertime honey bee lives only about 42 to 50 days

The average honey bee flies between 12 and 15 miles per hour

The average central temperature of the brood nest is kept between 92-95 degrees fahrenheit

Young honey bees are taught by the more experienced ones how to make honey


Plan Bee Anglia from ITV Fixers on Vimeo	Keep The Hive Alive Why is Anglia Co-operative campaigning to Keep The Hive Alive? Honey bee numbers are in decline worldwide. In this country bees pollinate about a third of our food crops – it has been estimated that if people were to take over the job of pollination from the bees, it would require a workforce of 30 million! We can all play a part in helping to preserve bee numbers. To find out more, take a look at the special video on this page. It was filmed at our head office in Peterborough.
We are running our Keep The Hive Alive campaign in conjunction with the Peterborough and District Beekeepers Association. The group was set up 100 years ago to promote beekeeping across the Peterborough area, through regular meetings, talks by experts and training of new beekeepers. To find out more about them, and how to get involved, visit their website at www.peterboroughbees.co.uk You can also find out more about the honey bee and how to adopt a hive by visiting the British Beekeepers Association website at www.bbka.org.uk	Find out more... Co-operative Group – Plan Bee The British Beekeepers Association Bumblebee Conservation Trust Vanishing of the bees BBC - Bee part of it Peterborough & District Bee Keepers Association Help save the bees

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