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Staff Writer
EDGEWATER -- First-graders at Indian River Elementary got a different taste for honey during a recent demonstration.New Smyrna Beach beekeeper Rosalie Nataupsky made her rounds Friday through several classes to show some of her tools, beeswax candles and a frame dripping with honey from a beehive. She passed around tools, showed children beeswax and demonstrated how to make a candle with a wick and some wax. The first-graders each got their own wax and wick and rolled it together. Children were impressed with the sights of bees flying in a hive when Nataupsky showed a video of her hobby at a Samsula farm. She saida healthy hive should have bees flying in and out every few seconds. Nataupsky told the pupils when the bees leave the hive, they know the exact location of the hive. So if someone moves it, they can get confused and be lost for hours. "(A bee) flies exactly out from where it left and exactly back to where it came from as if it had a compass," she said. Nataupsky said she has had the same group of bees for about seven years. "They know me. They know my smell." Bees can fly up to 15 miles per hour and all of the worker bees are female. While she said they aren't hostile around her, there was one time when she forgot to zip up her suit and the bees swarmed inside it. She was stung 45 times that day. kelly.cuculiansky @news-jrnl.com
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