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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.
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Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
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During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.
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Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!
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Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
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About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to
produce 1 pound of beeswax.
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Beeswax production in most hives is about 1 1/2% to 2% of the total
honey yield.
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The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.
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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.
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The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.
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The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.
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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.
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Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
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A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.
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Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing.
Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar
and pollen is located.
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It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey. In a lifetime, on average
a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
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In one trip, a honey bee visits about 75 flowers.
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In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.
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Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate.
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A honey bee has four wings.
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A bird called the bee eater in areas of Africa thinks that riding around
on the backs of other animals is fun!
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The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough
nectar to make a pound of honey!