The Incredible
Honey Bee
- Honey bees must visit approximately
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.
- The average honey bee worker makes 1/12
teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
- Honey bees contribute 8 to 10 billion
dollars to the United States economy yearly.
- Honey bees are the only insects that
produce food for humans.
- The male honey bee is called the drone
and it has a grandfather but no father.
- 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
an average of 28 to 35 days.
- A honey bee visits between 50 and 100
flowers during one collection trip.
- A typical healthy hive may contain up
to 60,000 honey bees during peak times.
- Honey bees make an average of 1,600
round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey.
- Bees will travel as far as 1 or 2 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 2,000
eggs on a good day, averaging 1 egg every 45 seconds.
- A good queen bee lays anywhere from
175,000 to 200,000 eggs per year.
- North America has no native honey bees;
early pioneers first brought them from Europe.
- Honey bees pollinate approximately 25%
of all the foods humans consume.
- A typical foraging honey bee will work
herself to death in about 3 weeks.
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Updated: June 23, 2010