Honey Bee Facts

Honey bee Facts (most from the Texas A&M University Honey Bee Information Site )

Bees have 5 eyes.
Bees are insects, so they have 6 legs.
Male bees in the hive are called drones.
Bees fly about 20 mph.
Female bees in the hive (except the queen) are called worker bees.
Number of eggs laid by queen: 2,000 per day is the high.

What is an interesting fact about honey bees?
What are 10 facts about bees?
Why bees are important facts?
Are honey bees friendly?
Do honey bees sleep?
How do bees help us?
Do bees fart?
What are 5 facts about bees?
How many bees die a day?
What are the top 5 reasons why bees are so important?
Can we live without bees?
What if bees went extinct?

What is an interesting fact about honey bees?

The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour, hence it would have to fly around 90,000 miles -three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

What are 10 facts about bees?

Top 10 facts about bees

Busy bees. Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. ...
Honey I'm home! ...
Bees also rely on a transport system to get around. ...
Bringing a bee back to life. ...
Anyone, including you, can help a bee out. ...
Bees actually have four wings. ...
Bee Gees. ...
The Brainy Bunch.

Why bees are important facts?

Globally there are more honey bees than other types of bee and pollinating insects, so it is the world's most important pollinator of food crops. It is estimated that one third of the food that we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees, but also by other insects, birds and bats.

Are honey bees friendly?

Bees like humans!

Bees like the humans who take good care of them. Bees can detect human faces, which means they can recognize, and build trust with their human caretakers.

Do honey bees sleep?

Similar to our circadian rhythm, honeybees sleep between five and eight hours a day. And, in the case of forager bees, this occurs in day-night cycles, with more rest at night when darkness prevents their excursions for pollen and nectar.

How do bees help us?

Bees are vital to a healthy environment and healthy economy. ... Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and therefore keeping the cycle of life turning.

Do bees fart?

Honey bees eat pollen, which is passed in to their honey-stomachs and mid guts for digestion. ... Since the honey bee is a multicellular being (and not a vacuum chamber), pockets of air can and do establish themselves in the fecal matter. When excreted, these would manifest as farts.

What are 5 facts about bees?

Bees – fun facts

All worker bees are female.
A bee produces a teaspoon of honey (about 5 grams) in her lifetime.
To produce a kilogram of honey, bees fly the equivalent of three times around the world in air miles.
The type of flower the bees take their nectar from determines the honey's flavour.

How many bees die a day?

I've read many estimates for the number of bees that die daily during foraging season, but depending on the size of the colony and local conditions, the real number is probably between 800 to 1200.

What are the top 5 reasons why bees are so important?

10 Reasons Why Bees Are Important

In pollination. ...
Importance of bees within food webs. ...
Financial contribution of bees to the economy. ...
Bees benefit biodiversity. ...
Trees need bees! ...
Bees save elephants - and may save human lives! ...
Bees help sustenance farmers. ...
Bees are like 'the canary in the coal mine' - they tell us about the health of the wider environment.

Can we live without bees?

Put simply, we cannot live without bees. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that pollinators like bees and butterflies help pollinate approximately 75 percent of the world's flowering plants. They pollinate roughly 35 percent of the world's food crops—including fruits and vegetables.

What if bees went extinct?

Without bees, they would set fewer seeds and would have lower reproductive success. This too would alter ecosystems. Beyond plants, many animals, such as the beautiful bee-eater birds, would lose their prey in the event of a die-off, and this would also impact natural systems and food webs.