Notes from Todd
Fun Bee Facts
It is estimated that bees have been making honey for approximately 150 million years. Read below to learn a few additional fun facts about bees!
* To make one pound of honey, bees within a colony visit 2 million flowers, fly the distance of two times around the earth and will equate to the lifetime work of 300 bees.
* In a normal harvest year, a beehive can produce 400 pounds of honey.
* While there are over 20,000 species of bees, only 4 are honey producing.
* Drones are male bees and don't have stingers.
* Worker bees are female.
Nurse bees feed the queen bee and larvae.
Guard bees protect the hive from danger.
Scout bees locate new hives.
Undertaker bees keep the hive free from disease.