Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!
During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.
Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey
A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.
Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.
Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year.
The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.
Bees have two stomachs - one stomach for eating and the other special stomach is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive.
The bees use their honeycomb cells to raise their babies in, and to store nectar, honey, pollen and water.
Honey has natural preservatives and bacteria can't grow in it.
The average worker bee makes about 1/12 th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
images were sourced from Google!!
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