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Today is World Bee Day 🐝🌻🤗🐝The most important thing that bees do is pollinate. Pollination is needed for plants to reproduce, and so many plants depend on bees or other insects as pollinators.🌸When a bee collects nectar and pollen from the flower of a plant, some pollen from the stamens—the male reproductive organ of the flower—sticks to the hairs of her body. When she visits the next flower, some of this pollen is rubbed off onto the stigma, or tip of the pistil—the female reproductive organ of the flower. When this happens, fertilization is possible, and a fruit, carrying seeds, can develop.Via Bees, A Honey of an Idea ~~~~~~~~🐝Bees pollinate 80% of the world’s plants including 90 different food crops.🐝1 out of every 3 or 4 bites of food you eat is thanks to bees.🐝The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.🐝Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees fahrenheit in their central brood nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is 110 or -40 degrees.🍯The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.🐝Bees fly a few tenths of a mile up to 6 miles to gather nectar.🌻Bees leave the hive 15 times per day and visit around 100 flowers each time – that’s 1,500 flowers a day!🐝Bees can collect up to 4-5 pounds of nectar each day.Via HoneyLove Urban Beekeepers