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A honey bee visits up to 1,000 flowers a day yet produces only 112th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. The production of swarms and queens should be left to specialists. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Every year since ive known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than i do.
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