Know Bees Like We Know Bees

• Honeybees fly at about 12 miles per hour.
• They travel about 150,000 kilometres visiting an estimated 4 million flowers to make a kilo of honey.
• They can distinguish flavours as sweet, sour, salty or bitter.
• The style (flavour, aroma and colour) of every honey depends on the type of nectars the bees harvest.
• A worker bee can carry half her weight in nectar and pollen while flying.
• It takes 8 to 10 pounds of nectar to make a half a kilo of honey.
• One beehive accommodates between 15,000 to 60,000 honeybees.
• There is only one Queen Bee in each hive, who is fed royal jelly all her life.
• Drones are the only bees meant to mate with the Queen bee and they make up just 0.25% of the entire beehive population. Thats only 150 drones for a population of 60,000.
• The drone mates with the Queen bee about 1,000 feet above ground and then falls down dead.
• Drones cannot feed themselves and depend on the worker bees to be fed.
• Honey is 25% sweeter than table sugar, so you need less of it.
• Because of the possibility of traces of pollen spores, honey isnt suitable for babies under 12 months.
• Once a bee uses its sting, it has to die.
• The six-sided hexagonal honeycomb is the strongest shape in nature.