Chris was buzzing with bee facts

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by military radar. The latest slow-motion high Thanks to Chris and Martha, I now know that a definition cameras were deployed to show bees in bee will visit 2,000 flowers a day, and that it takes the kind of detail that would probably surprise the 50,000 miles of bee flights to produce just 1lb of bees – if they could appreciate it. honey.

We even saw him insert a microscopic camera Statistics just spilled out from the screen, from into the heart of a wild bees’ nest. Having done the fact their wings beat 230 times a second to something similar with a large stick when I was bees’ amazing ability to take to the air carrying a (misguided) child, I had to raise my hat in half their body weight in nectar and pollen. admiration. I’m not sure how much of it all I will remember

Before this programme I was happy just to next time I spot a bee in the garden, but I’ll know that bees visit the flowers in my garden, and certainly appreciate the honey on my toast a wee produce honey for my morning toast. bit more. Take two groups of people from either side of an argument with strong views and what have you got? An unsettled argument. Particularly when you’re dealing with immigration, on which changing views either way is nigh-on impossible. If they’d brought former co-star Sir Alan Sugar along to knock a few heads together, that would have livened it up.