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Our mission, which is to "Provide members and the community with technical beekeeping information and an awareness of bee and beekeeping habitat, biology, and safety." Sowega Beekeepers meet every second Thursday of the month, 6:30PM, at the Chehaw Creekside Educational Center. Discover the joys of beekeeping with the SOWEGA Beekeepers Club. Join the SOWEGA Beekeepers Club, for our Bee School. Discover the fine art of beekeeping. Learn about hive equipment, Hive a package of bees and how to manage your hive for pollination, and honey production. For more information about the SOWEGA Beekeepers Club Bee School or to join the SOWEGA Beekeepers Club call 229-336-5952
2. Honeybees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years. 3. The honeybee was not known in the Americas until Spanish, Dutch, and English settlers introduced it near the end of the 17th century. 4. Honeybees have 4 wings. 5. Honeybees stroke their wings 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz. 6. A honeybee flies about 12 miles per hour. 7. Honeybees have five eyes. 8. Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing" and sent. 9. The queen bee will lay about 1,000 to 1,500 eggs per day in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum population. 10. In the cold winter months, bees will leave the hive only to take a short cleansing flight. 11. Honeybees are fastidious about the cleanliness of their hive. 12. Honeybees do not die out over the winter. Instead they form a cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm. Feeding on the honey they collected during the warmer months. 13. It takes about 60 pounds of honey to provide enough energy for a colony of bees to survive the winter. 14. Each honeybee colony has a unique odor that members use like I.D. cards at the hive's entrance. Individual honeybees smell enough alike allowing the guard bees can identify them as part of the colony. |
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