...you always wanted to know
|
1
|
Bees have been creating honey for more than 150 million years.
|
|
2
|
In one trip a honey bee will visit about 50 to 100 flowers.
|
|
3
|
An industrious worker bee may visit 2,000 flowers per day.
|
|
4
|
A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
|
|
5
|
The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
|
|
6
|
A hive of bees will fly the equivalent of one and a half times round the earth to collect 1 lb of honey.
|
|
7
|
It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.
|
|
8
|
Honey bees do not hibernate in winter which is why they produce and store honey which is their winter food supplies.
|
|
9
|
Honey bees maintain a constant temperature of about 93º F within the hive year-
|
|
10
|
Honey bees produce beeswax from special glands on their abdomens.
|
|
11
|
Honey bees wings beat 11400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
|
|
12
|
Honey bees have 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head) and 3 simple eyes on the top of the head
|
|
13
|
Bees cannot recognize the colour red.
|
|
14
|
Honey bees communicate with each other through a kind of dace language.
|
|
15
|
Worker bees are the smallest bees in the colony.
|
|
16
|
The workers are sexually undeveloped females.
|
|
17
|
Drones are male bees without a sting
|
|
18
|
The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs.
|
|
19
|
In the spring the queen honey bee lays up to 2000 eggs per day
|
|
20
|
The queen may lay up to 1 million eggs in her lifetime.
|