Fun Bee Facts
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This is a honeybee
Honey bees must visit some 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
- Honey bees fly about 55,000 miles to bring in enough nectar to make one pound of honey.
- About one ounce of honey would fuel a honey bee’s flight around the world.
- Honey bees have been producing honey from flowering plants for about 10-20 million years.
- The average honey bee worker makes 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
- Honey bees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
- The male honey bee, the drone, has a grandfather but no father.
- The average honey bee flies between 12 and 15 miles per hour.
- A honey bee flaps its wings about 12,000 times per minute.
- A honey bee worker visits more than 2,000 flowers on a good day.
- Honey bees communicate with one another by smell and dances.
- The average summertime honey bee lives only about 28 to 35 days.
- A honey bee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection trip.
- Honey bees make an average of 1,600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey.
- Bees will travel as far as one or two miles from the hive to gather nectar.
- Honey bees from a typical hive visit approximately 225,000 flowers per day.
- Queen bees will lay as many as 2-3000 eggs on a good day — an average of one every 45 seconds