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National Honey Month

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    Want Bees? Plant These!

    By Sheereen Othman | September 1, 2016

    September marks National Honey Month. Did you know there are more than 300 honey varieties? Did you also know there’s a phenomenon happening around the world where the bees are disappearing? If we don’t have bees, we won’t have honey. Bees need two kinds of food to make honey: nectar and flowers. They suck nectar from the flower and store it in a designated ‘sac’ used to make honey. They also gather pollen from the anthers of flowers. When the…

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