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Looking for some really cool facts about just how hard bees work?

Check some of these out...

  • To make one pound of honey, it takes a bee the equivalent of 3 trips around the world (144800km)
  • In a workers life time, she can fly a distance that is equivalent to 1.5 trips around the world
  • A bee can produce 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its life
  • Each nectar trip, the bee will visit between 50-100 flowers and will not jump between flower/plant species
  • Can move wings at 12000 beats/min (200/second)
  • Queen can lay up to 2500 eggs a day at her peak production
  • One hive can collect around 66 lbs of pollen/year and 300 lbs of honey/year
  • Workers can carry up to 80% of their body weight in honey or pollen back to the hive
  • An average honey bee colony rears 150000 bees in a year

 


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