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Celebrities / Re: Kennis Music Sentenced Me To Death - Kelly Hansome by omophunky(m): 7:15pm On Jan 24, 2015 |
No need to cry over spilled milk. |
Politics / Re: Feb Poll: Emirs Rebuff Pro-jonathan Lobby by omophunky(m): 9:32am On Jan 11, 2015 |
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Religion / Re: Signs Your Church Has Been Secularized by omophunky(m): 9:18am On Jan 11, 2015 |
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Romance / Re: Nigerians Rated Among World's Top Porn Viewers by omophunky(m): 8:24am On Jan 10, 2015 |
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Phones / Re: 65-inch Android Tablet With 4k Display, Tegra X1 Processor, And 4gb Of Ram (pics by omophunky(m): 11:26pm On Jan 08, 2015 |
UchihaItachi:Sure |
Romance / Re: 6 Things A Guy Should Never Do To Impress A Lady... by omophunky(m): 9:41am On Jan 07, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Photos: Labour Party Rally In Ibadan by omophunky(m): 11:37pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
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Jokes Etc / Re: So Funny Pics To Start Your Week With I Guess So by omophunky(m): 5:58pm On Jan 05, 2015 |
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Jokes Etc / Re: So Funny Pics To Start Your Week With I Guess So by omophunky(m): 5:56pm On Jan 05, 2015 |
I dey read
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Romance / Re: LADIES: 7 Truths About Dating Younger Guys by omophunky(m): 11:27pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
ALKARULEZZ:For neck ? 1 Like |
Education / Re: 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 3:49pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
Ewizard:Sure |
Education / Re: 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 3:32pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
Ewizard:17. Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but they don't leave the hive to help defend it. |
Education / Re: 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 3:28pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
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Education / Re: 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 3:26pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
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Celebrities / Re: Are These Animals Pro-GEJ or Anti-GEJ? (Hilarious picture) by omophunky(m): 3:15pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
Those goat don't believe in oga jona |
Education / Re: Intresting Things You Can Only Find In Nigeria(PHOTOS) by omophunky(m): 3:02pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
Wetin concern me? Continue reading
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Education / Re: 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 2:58pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
simplemach:U are welcome |
Nairaland / General / Re: 120 Lives Lost In Christmas Crashes – FRSC by omophunky(m): 2:57pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
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Education / Re: 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 2:49pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
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Education / 20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts! by omophunky(m): 2:37pm On Jan 04, 2015 |
I think we should get ourselves some honey bee facts, after all so many healing and health-promoting opportunities for the humans begin with this little busy creature. As you read the following 20 honey bee facts, you will be so intrigued just like me by this teensy-weensy fellow's extraordinary abilities. 1. The honey bee has been around for millions of years. 2. Honey bees, scientifically also known as Apis mellifera, which mean "honey-carrying bee", are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators. 3. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. honey bee facts image 4. Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning. 5. Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head), 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, 2 pairs of wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach. 6. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their exceptional olfactory abilities include kin recognition signals, social communication within the hive, and odor recognition for finding food. Their sense of smell is so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from metres away. 7. honey bee facts imageThe honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour. 8. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. 9. A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey. 10. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world. 11. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip. 12. The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency. 13.A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work. 14. The queen bee can live up to 5 years and it's role is to fill the hive with eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, she lays up to 2500 eggs per day. The queen bee has control over whether she lays male or female eggs. If she uses stored sperm to fertilize the egg, the larva that hatches is female. If the egg is left unfertilized, the larva that hatches is male. In other words, female bees inherit genes from their mothers and their fathers while male bees inherit only genes from their mothers. Click here to learn more about the Honey Bee Life Cycle, 15. Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work at all. All they do is mating. In fact, before winter or when food becomes scarce, female honeybees usually force surviving males out of the nest. 16. Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members' identification. 17. Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but they don't leave the hive to help defend it. 18. It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal. 19. Honey bees communicate with one another by dancing. More on their awesome sense of time, communication of distance and direction in "The Awesome Honeybee Dance". 20. honey bee facts imageDuring winter, honey bees feed on the honey they collected during the warmer months. They form a tight cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm. The more I learnt about honey bee facts; honey's great creator -the honey bee itself, its highly organized society, how it acts with such intricate cooperation, and the various bee products, the more I admire and respect this amazing creature. It is no wonder why sometimes the colony is called a superorganism. "Unique among all God's creatures, only the honeybee improves the environment and preys not on any other species." ~ Royden Brown "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live?"~ Albert Einstein Source http://www.benefits-of-honey.com/honey-bee-facts.html 1 Share
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Education / Re: Some Interesting Facts About The World. by omophunky(m): 9:28am On Jan 03, 2015 |
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Webmasters / Re: As A New Year Begins, What Would You Love To Remove Or Add To NL? by omophunky(m): 8:53pm On Jan 01, 2015 |
Well, as for me I will like to know who like my post or comment. 2 Likes |
Autos / Re: FG Postpones 35% Levy On Used Cars Till April 30 by omophunky(m): 1:07pm On Jan 01, 2015 |
Another...... |
Nairaland / General / Re: Konga And Their Fraudulent Way by omophunky(m): 12:06pm On Jan 01, 2015 |
They are just playing "I don't care attitude" taking them to court will resolve the issue in no time. |
Romance / Re: Why Do Men Dote On Their Mother? by omophunky(m): 11:37am On Jan 01, 2015 |
aristocrazzy:Pac was right |
Politics / Re: See Reuben Abati's Political New Year Message To Nigerians by omophunky(m): 11:28am On Jan 01, 2015 |
Ok I heard u |
Politics / Re: Adequate Security Will Be Guaranteed During 2015 Election – Army by omophunky(m): 11:10am On Jan 01, 2015 |
Ok |
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