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BEE FACTS

A healthy bee colony has up to 50,000 workers, 2,000 drones and one queen at the height of the summer.

Bees keep the heart of the colony at a constant 35-37 degrees Centigrade throughout the year. The average honeybee colony will consume 40 kilos of pollen in a year.

The average honeybee colony will consume 40 kilos of pollen in a year.

A queen bee can lay up to 2,000 eggs in a day during spring and summer.

A queen can live up to five years.

Male drones do not work in the hive, or make honey.  Their main function is to mate with a queen.  They are killed by the workers at the onset of winter.

A bee flies at 13-15 mph which is quite slow for an insect.

A honeybees’ ‘cruising height’ is 12 feet above the ground.

A worker bee lives for about six weeks in the summer and longer over winter.

A worker bee spends the first three weeks of life in the hive ending the queen, feeding larvae, cleaning and guarding the entrance.  It then becomes a forager bringing stores back to the hive.

A bee flies up to 3 miles from the hive on its foraging missions.

Forage trips last about 40 minutes or less if sufficient nectar, pollen, or water is found.

A bees’ honey-stomach is the size of a pinhead.  It may need to visit 1,000 flowers to fill it.

It takes twelve bees a lifetime to produce 1 teaspoonful of honey.

Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make a pound of honey.

A bee will average ten forage trips a day.

The bee ‘buzz’ is made by their wings beating over 11,000 times per minute.

Honey bees never sleep.



 



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