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-====== Bee ======
+====== Bees ======
 ===== Taste like almonds =====
-Bees in their immature stages are eaten by indigenous people in Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, and Mexico. Bee in their egg, larval, or pupal form taste like almonds. [([[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/5/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetles/|National Geographic: U.N. Urges Eating Insects; 8 Popular Bugs to Try]])]
+Bees in their immature stages are eaten by indigenous people in Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, and Mexico. Bees in their egg, larval, or pupal form taste like almonds. [([[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/5/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetles/|National Geographic: U.N. Urges Eating Insects; 8 Popular Bugs to Try]])]
 ===== Nocturnal lifestyle =====
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 ===== 1500 eggs a day =====
-Queen bee is groomed and fed at all times. The attention is needed for her to lay eggs. The queen can lay from 600 and up to 1500 eggs each day! [([[https://americanbeejournal.com/tiposlinks/fun-facts/|American Bee Journal]])]
+The queen bee is groomed and fed at all times. The attention is needed for her to lay eggs. The queen can lay from 600 and up to 1500 eggs each day! [([[https://americanbeejournal.com/tiposlinks/fun-facts/|American Bee Journal]])]
 ===== Four wings =====
-To make it easier for a bee to fly, the two wings on the left and the right side of its body, hook together to form one pair. But they unhook when the bee is not flying. It means that bees have four wings in total and not two. [([[https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/bees|WWF]])]
+To make it easier for a bee to fly, the two wings on the left and the right side of its body hook together to form one pair, but they unhook when the bee is not flying. This means that bees have four wings in total and not two. [([[https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/bees|WWF]])]
 ===== Hexagonal shape =====
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 ===== Trademark "buzz" =====
 The buzzing sound comes from honey bees beating their wings 200 times per second! They can also visit up to 100 flowers on a single trip. [([[https://www.beepods.com/101-fun-bee-facts-about-bees-and-beekeeping/|Bee Pods]])]
+===== Bee eyes =====
+Arthropods, like bees, have compound eyes. A honey bee has around 5.500 ommatidia per eye.[(http://lup.lub.lu.se/search/ws/files/29635024/e_spik_Nellie_Linander.pdf)] Despite their simple eye structure and small brain, honey bees could recognize individual human faces.
+[(https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/face-recognition-honeybees/)]
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