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Honey Bee Nest At Tree Nearby Our Home! Scary!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 24 Feb 21

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good. I am doing good too. It's been a lazy day so far, nothing happening much today. Anyways, before few days I was just sitting on the bed in our living room and was gazing outside...

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Murder Hornets ...

Gloria Faye Brown Bates @GrannyGee (3517) • Louisburg, North Carolina 5 May 20

What do you think about the Murder Hornets? Now, they have entered the USA. I used to see photos of them, read about them. Oh my, that is a big hornet, gracious! It makes me sad that they attack honey bee hives and savage the...

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bees are important

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Intelligence Honey Bees love math.

Explorer @ExplorewtMe (6332) • Nairobi, Kenya 14 Mar 20

I think we all know little or more about the importance of Honey bees. They play a very active and important role to maintain the food chain. Without them, life on the earth will not last for long. But we will discuss some...

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If you smell bananas and are nowhere near one - Run!

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 12 Oct 19

The honey bee releases Isoamyl Acetate after stinging someone. This serves as a pheromone to other bees, enticing them to come and sting as well. Isoamyl Acetate is produced naturally in Bananas, and synthetically for the banana...

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Bumble Bees love the California Lilacs

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 23 May 18

While working a bit in the yard, I have noticed that the beautiful California Lilac bushes are in full bloom and that bumble bees are all over them. Large and small black ones with striped yellow tails and then this one called an...

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Bees: What You Might Not Know

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 30 Jun 17

There are about 15,000 to 20,000 different kinds of bees. Who knew? The strange part is that 95% of these bees are “solitary” bees that live alone. Only 5% are “social bees” that live in colonies, sometimes containing thousands...

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albert einstein

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A Rose in the Forest

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 10 May 17

A Rose in the Forest - Do you think that a rose would hide from the pollen-hunting honey bees? Some roses do. The rose pictured above is one of those. It is truly a paranoid rose - a really frightened flower. No matter that...

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No topic just talking

Jaded Jinn @Jadedjinn (118) • Pea Ridge, Arkansas 10 Oct 15

I spilled half a months supply of lavender oil while tryin to apply it to my back. Obviously my hands have become to incompetent to perform such an action. So I go to country cupboard to get some more and happen across a bee...

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exchanging knowledge

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Actually, ..... I'm all talked out!

Rocketj1 @rocketj1 (6955) • United States 14 May 12

Do you ever have one of those days? Just last week, I had a situation with honey bees. I had to call in several "experts". I discussed the situation dozens of times that day, repeating it for anyone who wanted to know what was...

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For the love of bees...

DkAngelPrincess @DkAngelPrincess (329) • United States 24 Aug 09

In case you haven't heard the buzz, honeybees are dying at an alarming rate. The fuzzy little guys are crucial to the ecosystem, and also to our diet- about 30 percent of everything we eat and drink is a product of pollination....

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Spring flings

savypat @savypat (20216) • United States 27 May 09

Have you ever gotten to watch a hive of honey bees move. The swarm in a large mass, making the most fantastic buzz. We don't get to see them every spring but maybe every two years or so. It is such an amazing thing, they start to...

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How honey is made

lovemygirls2503 @lovemygirls2503 (431) • United States 29 Sep 08

A honeybee starts the honey make process by visiting a flower and gathering of some nectar. Many plants use nectar as a way encouraging insects to stop at the flower. In the process of gather nectar, the insects transfers pollen...

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Honey bees can learn Foreign languages..!!

saivenkaat802003 @saivenkaat802003 (4823) • India 17 Aug 08

It is wrong to decipher the above lines literally.. This gist of that which i read in this link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365563,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/naturalscience is that.. [b][i]but Asian and European...

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a few funny FACTS from HISTORY...

consultrainer @consultrainer (4991) • India 10 Aug 08

1. COMMUNICATIONS giant NOKIA was founded in 1865 -- as a wood-pulp mill by FREDRIK IDESTAM. so surprising.. how wonderfully they have innovated, and developed along with the changing world! 2. To make a half-kilo of honey,...

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Honey bees are they going extinct?

maleek49 @maleek49 (91) • Singapore 8 Jul 08

Aren't Honey bees are they going extinct? I saw a commericals saying they were

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Microchip Bees to home in on CCD

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 28 Jun 08

Scientists are attaching ultra-tiny microchips to the backs of honey bees to get to the bottom of why the essential insects are dying off. The chips are so light, the bees don't know they are there. * Getting to the bottom of...

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How do I get rid of a swarm of honeybees?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 19 May 08

Ok, with all of the news of the honey bees not doing so well, I don't want to KILL these HONEY BEES. I know the queen bee has to be in the center of all of these bees, so it is a small group. Being that it is very cold out the...

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Who wants a Money-making Hobby?

barehugs @barehugs (8973) • Canada 28 Feb 08

Yes! a hobby is supposed to be a chance to relax after work, but many Hobbies grow up and become your work. This is what happened to me. I'm a Farmer who was looking for a Money-making Hobby to supplement my farming income. I...

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Maya Angelou

Ravenladyj @Ravenladyj (22902) • United States 22 Feb 08

So I just ADORE this woman and pretty much have since first here the poem Still I Rise and then reading some of her other works....Well today I heard a poem of hers being recited by her in the movie Madea's Family Reunion (which...

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Sundays Hectic Day

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 19 Sep 07

This past Sunday the 16th was the most hectic, stressful and busiest day I've had in many years. I woke up with dad in a bed of his own feces and vomit. I had to keep an eye on him all day for his health. He ened up in the...

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