Some Bee facts

Some Bee Facts

 

• Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
• Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!
• During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.
• Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
• A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
• Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.
• Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.
• Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year.
• The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.
• *Beeswax production in most hives is about 1 1/2% to 2% of the total honey yield.
• About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax. 

According to science Bees can't fly? 

In his 1934 French book Le vol des insectes, M. Magnan wrote that he and a M. Saint-Lague had applied the equations of air resistance to bumblebees and found that their flight could not be explained by fixed-wing calculations, but that "One shouldn't be surprised that the results of the calculations don't square with reality".This has led to a common misconception that bees "violate aerodynamic theory", but in fact it merely confirms that bees do not engage in fixed-wing flight, and that their flight is explained by other mechanics, such as those used by helicopters.