Bee Facts

                                                             Bee Facts

Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!
Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.
About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
The honey bee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee’s flight around the world.
The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
Bees collect 66 lbs of pollen per year, per hive. Pollen is the male germ cells produced by all flowering plants for fertilization and plant embryo formation.
Honeybees are not native to the USA. They are European in origin, and were brought to North America by the early settlers.
The queen bee can live for several years. Worker bees live for 6 weeks during the busy summer, and for 4-9 months during the winter months.

The practice of honey collection and beekeeping dates back to the stone-age, as evidenced by cave paintings.