Bee Facts

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.