Bees

Some facts about bees

• Bees have been producing honey for 20 million years.
• A bee flies at approximately 15mph and visits 50-100 flowers in one collection trip.
• Two million flowers need to be visited in order to produce a pound of honey.
• A worker bee makes 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
• A queen bee can lay 1,500 eggs per day. She can live for five years, whereas the worker bees only live for one summer.
• Male bees are called 'drones'.
• There can be up to 50,000 bees in a hive in the summer.
• A honey bee has six legs and five eyes and they communicate with each other by 'dancing'.