"The honeybees prefer a highly structured society of drones, workers, queens and hives. A hive consists of the matriarch, the queen, and her 30,000 to 50,000 subjects, the male drones and the female worker bees. Older worker bees are tasked with foraging for food and usually work themselves to death. A teaspoon of honey requires a visit to a million flowers. Their loss is our gain, since our gardens and fields thrive from their labor.
While honeybees prefer the metropolitan atmosphere of the hive, native bees, on the other hand, are solitary introverts that do their jobs and go back home to get away from the crowds. Compared to the belligerent African bees, native bees are even-tempered hard workers that do not attack unless provoked."
Bees sweeten deal for native plant nursery
by Maria Sonnenberg, For FLORIDA TODAY
While honeybees prefer the metropolitan atmosphere of the hive, native bees, on the other hand, are solitary introverts that do their jobs and go back home to get away from the crowds. Compared to the belligerent African bees, native bees are even-tempered hard workers that do not attack unless provoked."
Bees sweeten deal for native plant nursery
by Maria Sonnenberg, For FLORIDA TODAY
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