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to save a bee in an urban environment, during a heat wave, you can simply help by giving her water?
Place in a shallow plate water and put in the water few corks or a stick, so that the bee can step in and hook with her nails, to drink water and not to get drowned.
In addition, you can create a flower bed or a vegetable garden either on your balcony or on the roof top of your apartment building. Use beekeeping plants to help bees to find their food and also to pollinate your plants.
Plant and feel the joy that you contribute to the protection of the environment but also to the protection of the most precious pollinator on earth and create your own plants and most important your own food.
An indicative list of what you can plant by yourself in your own flower bed or your vegetable garden:

Oregano
Thyme
Rosemary
Lemon balm
Sage
Basil
Lavender
Calendula
Cherry tomato
Cucumbers
Peppers
Zucchini

So please send us your own photo with your creations and with the bees who are going to visit you and be an inspiration for everyone! 🙂

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there is a cave painting in the town of Bicorp in Spain, at least 8,000 years old, depicting a man trying to get honey from a wild beehive?

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there is an amphora with a honey theft scene? dated to 540-520 BC, it is in the Museum of Antiquities, in the city of Basel in Switzerland.

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bees, after locating flowers, return to them by a short route? So, in this way they save energy and time!

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a bee can fly over 60km/h? And to collect 1 kg of honey, they have to visit hundreds of thousands of flowers and make 120-150 thousand flights?

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the bee can lift 122 times its own weight and fly? while in comparison ants can carry 50 times their own weight.

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10,000 bees weigh about 1 kg?

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there are about 60,000 bees in a hive?

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in order for a bee to survive during the winter, it uses a mechanism called the melissosphere and with the movement of its wings, the bees can maintain a temperature up to 35 degrees C and correspondingly when the temperatures are high they cool the hive by ventilating her with their wings? The ultimate power generation and thermoregulation machines.

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in Denmark by law farmers must cultivate 5% of their land with flowers for the bees?

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since 2008 bee has been declared by earthwatch, an international environmental organization, as the most valuable species on our planet?

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bee colonies in North America and Europe show a decline of around 30%, while in the Middle East up to 85%? We have to protect the bees.

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in ancient times honey was also used as a stabilizing element in the dyeing of fabrics with purple?

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Herodotus mentions that the ancient Assyrians embalmed their dead with honey?

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Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, emphasizes that food is our nurishment and our nurishment is our food.

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3000-year-old honey was found in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs, which archaeologists tested and declared to be edible?

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in ancient Egypt, the slaves who served the Pharaoh were spread with honey, so that the flies would stick to them and not bother the king?

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George Washington, before he became America’s first president, was a progressive farmer, beekeeper and had his own hives of bees.

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there are two types of honey? the flower honeys from various blossoms of flowers, shrubs, plants, such as the honey of thyme, flowers, orange, heather, arbutus and honey from honey-coniferous trees, such as the pine, fir, oak.

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we always store our honey in a shady place, as the sun destroys many of the honey’s enzymes?

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to liquefy crystallized honey, we heat the jar with our honey in a bain-marie not above 45 degrees C, as its nutrients are destroyed?

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beeswax is in the bellies of bees and to get the wax out, the bees grab each other’s legs creating chains and remain hanging upside down for many hours?

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honey produces glycogen, which the brain relies on for its functions? Therefore it is important to eat honey every day!!