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1) The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity
to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging
efficiency.
2) The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day.
3) The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
4) The honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
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5) Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79
in mosquitoes.
6) Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life,
7) The honeybee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
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8) With the exception of allergy sufferers It is estimated that it would take 1100 honey bee stings to be fatal.
9) The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
10) It takes about 556 workers to gather 1 pound of honey from about 2 million flowers.
11) Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members' identification.
12) Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing".
13) Bees have 5 eyes, 2compound eyes made up of thousands of lenses on three simple eyes on the back
of their heads.
14) A beehive can use up to 10 litres of water per week.
15) Aero-dynamically it is impossible for bees to fly.
16) Pure Honey was found in the pyramids 2000 yrs old, still edible.
17) A person who looks after bees is called an Apiarist or a beekeeper.
18) It takes 500 Honey bees 4 weeks to make 1 kilogram of honey and they will travel the equivalent of 3 orbits
of the earth in distance to collect it.
19) Queen bees can lay up to 2000 eggs per day, that’s one egg every 43 seconds.
20) Bees have 5 eyes, 2compound eyes made up of thousands of lenses and three simple eyes on the back
of their heads.
21) Honey bees communicate in 2 forms, they use pheromones (ferra-moans) these give off a scent which passes a message to the other bees and they also use a dance called the waggle dance to lead the bees to
the flowers.
22) There are on average 50,000 worker bees in a hive. 20,000 of which are female worker bees collecting honey. Really strong hives can have more than 100,000 bees.
23) Even with protective equipment beekeepers can get stung up to 100 times per day when collecting honey.
24) A beehive can use up to 10 litres of water per week.
25) Aero-dynamically it is impossible for bees to fly.
26) Bees need to eat 7 kilograms of nectar to produce just 1 kilogram of beeswax.
27) Worker bees live on pollen and nectar and live 6 weeks.
28) Queen bees live on Royal Jelly and Live up to 6 yrs.
29) Pure Honey was found in the pyramids 2000 yrs old, still edible.
30) Male Bees are called drones and they are very lazy, they do not work.
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