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Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph. 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. Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey. During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks. Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees! Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans. About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax. Beeswax production in most hives is about 1 1/2% to 2% of the total honey yield. The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees. 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 speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour. The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee. 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. Honeybees have hair on their eyes. A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey. |