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Dear Mr. Brilliant Beekeeper: I heard you are also a mathematician. Tell me some numbers. - from Ed, Alaska, 8/2/2001
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Doctors recommend that babies under the age of two (some docs say 18 months) should not be fed honey.5 -
Five Americans have been killed by "Killer Bees" since the Africanized stock moved into the USA.9 -
Two places on earth produce a huge amount of honey per person. Saskatchewan and Belarussia each average about Nine pounds (4 kg) produced per capita. The world average is 3 ounces (85 grams) per person.18 -
Eighteen swarms of Africanized Honeybees had been discovered on cargo ships in various US harbours from 1983 to 1999.500 -
In April, 2000, Five Hundred beekeepers marched in Valencia, Spain, to protest a law that requires them to remove their bees from the citrus growing area because the bees are cross-pollinating the fruit!2,000,000 -
The USA had five million hives of bees a hundred years ago, now only two million, though total honey production is nearly the same.2,000,000,000 -
More than Two Billion pounds of honey are produced and sold by beekeepers in the world each year.40,000,000,000 -
In the USA alone, the value of crops pollinated by honey bees is over Forty Billion dollars.
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