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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

About

The worlds most important pollinator. Lives in complex colonies of up to 80,000 individuals with a single queen. Communicates food locations through the waggle dance.

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Did You Know?

A honey bee must visit about 2 million flowers and fly over 88,000 km β€” equivalent to circling the Earth twice β€” to produce just one pound of honey.