10 Quick Facts About The Honey Bee!
#1. Honey Bees maintain one of the world's most efficient factories. The Beehive.
#2. Bees have been producing Honey the same way they do today for at least 150 Million years.
#3. There are three kinds of bees. The worker, drone, and the Queen. Each has it's own responsibilities inside the hive.
#4. Honey bees' wings stroke at about 11,400 times per minute, this is what makes their distinctive buzzing sound.
#5. It can take about 2 Million flower visits and over 55,000 KM of traveled distance for Honey Bees to make just a pound of Honey.
#6. The Queen Honey Bee can live up to 5 years of age. This is an incredibly long time by Insect standards. While drones and worker bees usually only live 4-6 weeks during active times.
#7. Honey is created as a food source for the hive to feed on through the long winter months when the flowers aren't in bloom and there is very little nectar to be collected.
#8. 80% of the pollination of the fruits, vegetables and seed crops in North America. is accomplished by the busy little Honey Bees.
#9. At the peak of the honey-gathering season, a strong, healthy hive could have a Honey Bee population of approximately 50,000 or more bees.
#10. Honey Bees could visit between 50 and 100 flowers during just one collection flight from the hive.
Rose & Ernie Fuhr.
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PS... Our Honey and Bee Pollen is some of the best tasting in the world. Our bees are free-ranged on thousands of acres of Alfalfa and Wildflowers. This sweet combination of pollens creates a very sweet great tasting honey and 100% pure Bee Pollen.