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| Fun Facts about Honeybee's Did you know? |
The Queen Bee will lay approximately 3,000 eggs a day. |
In order to produce 1 pound of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited. |
Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years. |
Honey never spoils. No need to refrigerate it. Honey can be stored unopened, indefinitely, at room temperature in a dry cupboard. |
A bee flies at a rate of about 12 miles per hour. |
Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing." |
The honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz. |
Did you know that bees have 4 wings. |
Honeybee colonies have unique scents that members flash like identification cards at the hive's front door. All the individual bees in a colony smell enough alike so that the guard bees can identify them. |
A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection flight from the hive. |
It would take approximately 1 ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world. |
An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. |
The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones. |
The United States has an estimated 211,600 beekeepers. |
We should appreciate honeybees for their honey and pollination services. 80% of the pollination of the fruits, vegetables and seed crops in the U.S. is accomplished by honeybees. |
