Bees

Name: Bee

Male Name: Drone

Female Name: Queen, Worker

Kid/Baby Name: Larva

Group Name: Hive, Swarm (in flight), Bike, Drift, Grist

>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 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.

>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 belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants

>They consist of a pair of compound eyes made up of numerous six-sided facets (28,000 in some dragonflies, 4,000 in house flies) plus three simple eyes.

>Bees are capable of seeing ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans

>The bee is capable of navigating, even on a cloudy day, by cloud-penetrating ultraviolet light.

>Bee pollen is the male seed of a flower blossom which has been gathered by the bees and to which special elements from the bees has been added