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The Honey Bee

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THE BEE has been around for about 80 million years evolving alongside flowering plants and a special relationship has developed between them. The flowers provide nectar for the bee and the bee transports pollen from one flower to another and so pollinates them. When one bee has found the nectar source she communicates its location to others in the hive using a complicated dance language unique to the honeybee.
About one third of our total diet comes directly or indirectly from bee pollinated plants such as fruit, vegetables and seed crops. Considering also the wildflowers, trees and non-food crops that are bee pollinated, it can be seen that the ecological and economic importance of the bee in our environment is immense.
So help the beekeeper keep his bees and support our environment, adopt a hive in Cornwall!

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THE BEEHIVE is at its busiest during the summer when it can contain more than 50,000 adult workers. They are all female and are the daughters of the queen whose task is to lay about 1,500 eggs a day, more than a million in her lifetime. Male bees (drones) are only produced during the summer and do no work at all in the hive. Their sole purpose is to fly in search of other queens and mate with them, immediately after which they die! The population can eventually reach a point when the colony splits. The old queen leaves with many followers in a swarm to start a new colony elsewhere and a new queen is produced to start again with the other bees left behind.

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