Honey Bee Interesting Facts
1. They have 6 legs, 2 eyes, and 2 wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.
2. The honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
3. The average honey bee will actually make only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
4. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
5. A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen.
6. Worker honey bees are female, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.
7. The queen bee lives for about 2-3 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day.
8. The male honey bees are called drones, and they do no work at all, have no stinger, all they do is mating.
9. Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but don’t leave the hive to help defend it.
10. Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing".
11. During winter, honey bees feed on the honey they collected during the warmer months. They form a tight cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm.
