Honey bee Intersting facts
1) They have 170 odorant receptors and can detect whether a flower is carrying pollen or nectar from meters away.
2) The only insect that produces food that humans eat.
3) Workers bees fly 55000 miles to produce a pound of honey
4) They can fly up to six miles and us fast as 15miles per hour.
5) In her lifetime the average worker bee produce about 1/12teaspoon of honey.
6) Beeswax makes lip balm wood polish lotion body butter drawer and window lubrication candles bookbinding thread moustache wax massage bars.
7) Honey bee's wings stroke about 200 beats per second. Creating its distinctive buzz.
8) A foraging/female honey bees visits 100 flowers per foraging trip.
9) Honey contains enzymes,vitamins,minerals,and water all substances needed to sustain life.
10) To make a pound of honey about 556 honey bees visit 2million flowers.
11) The color and flavour of Honey is determined from determined from a flower.
12) A hive of bees will fly 90000 miles equivalent of three orbits to collect about 2.2 ponds of honey.
13) A bees flies to thousand of flowers to make only a spoon of honey.
14) A honey bee colony has about 20,000 to 60000 bees and one queen. Worker bees live for about three to six weeks and do all the worker. Their life span is determined by how much they fly.
15) Honey bees have six legs, give eyes, and four wings. While flying they wings hook together to allow easier.
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