Honey Bees:

• Bees fly an average of 13-15 miles per hour.
• A bee’s wings beat 180 times per second.
• During the production period, or spring and summer, a worker bee's average life
• span is six weeks.
• Worker bees are all female.
• Honeybees visit approximately two 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 - as far as 6 miles per round trip.
• To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the
• Bees from the same hive visit approximately 225,000 flowers per day - one bee
• usually visits between fifty and a thousand flowers per day, but sometimes up to
• several thousand.
• Approximately 8 pounds of honey is consumed by bees to produce 1 pound of
• Queens will lay approximately 2,000 eggs per day at a rate of 5 or 6 per minute -
• between 175,000 and 200,000 eggs are laid per year.
• The queen may mate with up to 17 drones over a 1 to 2 day period of mating flights.
• The queen stores the sperm from her mating voyage, giving her a lifetime supply.
• She only mates once in her lifetime.

Hives:

Bees do not sleep; however, they can be found resting in empty cells.

• There are 40,000 to 60,000 bees in a beehive during honey-gathering season.
• The average temperature of a hive is 93.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Honey:

• Honey is 80% sugar and 20% water.
• Honey has been used as a topical dressing for wounds since microbes cannot live in
• It also produces hydrogen peroxide.
• Honey has been used to embalm bodies.
• Fermented honey, known as mead, is the most ancient fermented beverage.
• The term "honey moon" originated with the Norse practice of consuming large
• quantities of mead during the first month of a marriage.
• Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.