Amazing Honey Bee Facts
To produce a pound of honey , a bee must tap into two million flowers. | |
Honey bees must fly over 55,000 miles to produce one pound of honey. | |
A worker honey bee makes only 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her life time. | |
Honey bee wings flap 11,400 / sec. and fly at 15 miles per hour. | |
Worker bees make 10 to 15 collection trips per day. | |
Nurse bees heads exude Royal Jelly to feed larvae and the queen. | |
Wax bees secreate beeswax to build hexagonal honeycomb cells. | |
The honey bee has six legs, four wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach. | |
Honey bees have been producing honey for 10 to 20 million years. | |
Modern science says it is aerodynamically impossible for bees to fly. | |
A beehive appears on the Utah state seal, Utah is the beehive state. | |
An estimated 220,000 U.S. beekeepers manage 3.2 million bee hives. | |
A worker bee visits up to 100 flowers during one collection trip. | |
Honey bees dance to communicate direction and distance of flowers. | |
Annually a bee hive makes more than 400 lbs. honey and 40 lbs. pollen. | |
Worker honey bees, the girls, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work. | |
Worker honey bees, the girls, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work. | |
Drone bees, the boys, have no stingers, and do no work, only mating. | |
Queen bees, only one per hive, lay up to 2,500 eggs per day. | |
Bees are insects in the scientific order Hymenoptera as Apis mellifera | |
Apitherapy; uses bee venom, and bee products for medicinal purposes. | |
Honey consumption per capita in the U.S.,1.1 lbs., in Germany 9.5 lbs. | |
It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world. | |
Honey bees are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators. | |
U.S.D.A. estimates about 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal. |
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