Fun Facts about Honeybee's

Did you know?

 

1)       The Queen Bee will lay approximately 3,000 eggs a day

 

2)       In order to produce 1 pound of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited.

 

3)       Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years.

 

4)       Honey never spoils. No need to refrigerate it. It can be stored unopened, indefinitely, at room temperature in a dry cupboard.

 

5)       A bee flies at a rate of about 12 miles per hour.

 

6)       Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing".

 

7)       The honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.

 

8)       Did you know that bees have 4 wings?

 

9)       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.

 

10)    A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection flight from the hive.

 

11)   It would take approximately 1 ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

 

12)    An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

 

13)    The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones.

 

14)   The United States has an estimated 211,600 beekeepers.

 

15)    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.