↠ Bees Never Sleep, but take short breaks and periods of rest.
↠ Bees Have an Internal GPS and use the sun as a compass.
↠ Bees work together to maintain the hive’s temperature, collect food, care for the queen, and defend their honey.
↠ Worker bees decide when to the queen, usually because of her declining egg-laying ability.
↠ Bees play a crucial role in the production of fruits, vegetables, and nuts as super pollinators.
↠ Depending on the flowers the bees visit, their honey can come in a variety of colors and flavors.
↠ A single worker bee may fly up to 500 miles in their lifetime, visiting thousands of flowers along the way.
↠ Worker honey bees cycle through the various jobs within the hive as they age.
↠ Bees have a sense of symmetry to build their hexagonal honeycomb cells with precision.
↠ A honey bee visits 50-100 flowers in one trip.
↠ When a forager bee finds a food source, it returns to the hive and does a special dance to let others know where to find it.
↠ Honey bees beat their wings 11,400 times per minute. This beating of wings makes the buzzing noise.
↠ An average hive has 50,000 to 60,000 worker bees.
↠ The honey bee is the only insect that produces food for humans.
↠ A honey bee can fly up to 15 miles per hour.
↠ Ancient Egyptians believed bees to be the tears of the sun god, Ra.
↠ The ancient Greeks minted coins with bees on them.
↠ Honey bees and honey are mentioned in the bible and in ancient Sanskrit texts.
↠ Bees have existed for more than 100 million years.
↠ Bees have 2 stomachs – one for eating, and one for storing nectar and processing it into honey.
↠ Bees have five eyes.
↠ Honey bees cannot see red light but can see ultraviolet light.
↠ Honey bee eggs hatch after three days and develop into larvae.
↠ Honey bee eyes are textured with the same hexagonal pattern as honeycomb.
↠ A single bee can carry up to 35% of their body weight in pollen.
↠ Bees also communicate within the hive by releasing chemicals called pheromones.
↠ Honey bees work 24/7 to keep their hives clean, hauling out dust, hairs and pests.
↠ Honey bees use their wings to cool their hives by fanning the air to circulate it through the hive.
↠ Queen bees are created by being consistently fed royal jelly.
↠ Queens can lay between 2,000 and 3,000 eggs per day.
↠ In their prime, queens lay an egg every 43 seconds.
↠ The wax comb within the hive is produced by worker bees from wax secreted from glands in their abdomens.
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