Fun Facts About Honey Bees!

Notice the pollen that this little girl has collected! This is the most pollen that we have ever seen on one little bee before!! She was working overtime packing that pollen!! This was really the first flowers that was available to them this spring..These were actually a bouquet of flowers that our daughter-in-law carried out to the hives..then she took these awesome pictues!!

Here are some fun Honey Bee facts..

*80% of the pollination of the fruits, vegetables and seed crops in the U.S. is accomplished by honeybees.

*Honey bees have five eyes

*Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years

*A cave painting depicting an androgynous figure robbing honey out of the hive was found in the Cave of the Spider in Valencia, Spain. It is estimated to be 15,000 years old.

*A queen is the largest bee in the hive. She can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day, twice her own body weight per day.

*Drones have no stinger. They do no real work. Their only purpose is to mate with virgin queens.

*Bees must visit approximately 2 million flowers to make 1 lb. of honey.

*Bees have to fly over 55,000 miles to make 1 lb. of honey.
*On average a worker bee will make 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

*Two tablespoons of honey would fuel a honey bee flying once around the world.
*Honey bees will visit between 50-100 flowers during one nectar collection trip.