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Man is twice indebted to the honeybee for searching earth’s fields and forests for their treasured sweetness-for the honey itself, with its variety of appeals to our senses, and for the increased crop yields resulting from inadvertent pollination of the flowers the foraging bee visits. Literally vital to the honeybee colony, honey is to us simply a desirable and delectable variety in our diet. It is a twice-stolen sweet (and stolen sweets are said to be the best)-taken by the bee from the flower (and from the owner of the plot upon which it grows)-and then stolen from the bees by their keepers.
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