It takes 700 bees a lifetime to make one jar of honey.
Bees are the only insects that produce a food eaten by man.
The average worker bee produces about 1/12th of a teaspoon in her lifetime.
A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect one kg of honey.
A colony of bees consists of 20,000 to 60,000 of honeybees and one queen.
Worker honey bees are female and do all the work.
Workers in ahealthy colony are meticulous about hygiene. There will always be some slaving away cleaning cells and removing debris and dead brood, pushing them out of the hive.
Worker bees live for just six weeks, but the queen can live up to five years.
The queen is the only bee that can lay eggs.
Only the worker bee will sting and then only when they feel threatened. They die once they sting.
Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals and water.
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