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Useful Insects: Where would we be without bees, aka "the world's most useful insect"? For such tiny creatures, measuring only 1/8" to 1 inch in length, bees do the heavy lifting of providing honey, wax and pollinating most of the world's plants. Females carry their honey load in a "basket" located on their hind legs.

Complex Communities: Honey and bumble bees live in complex communities consisting of a queen, males and sterile females. While the honey bee constructs a home of individual wax cells to raise their young, the bumble bee uses grass and wax to create a home.

A Furry Body: A body covered by fur enables bees to continue their daily rounds of pollination on cooler days.

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Hard Work for Honey: Worker bees from a single hive will travel about 55,000 miles and hit 2 million flowers to produce one pound of honey.

Brainy Bees: A honey bee's brain, though only about a cubic millimeter, has the most densely packed gray matter of any animal.

Bee Antiseptic?: Microbes can't live in honey. In fact, in ancient times, bee honey was frequently use as a topical dressing for wounds.