Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Interesting Fact About Bees



1- The honey bee has been around 30 millions of years. 

2- There are over 12000 species of bees.

3- Bees have two stomachs - one stomach for eating and the other special stomach is for storing nectar collected from flowers or water so that they can carry it back to their hive. 
 
4- Worker bees are the smallest bees in the colony.
 
5- Bees cannot recognize the color red.

 6- The honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
 
7- Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing".  
 
8- Do you know that Queen bees lay nearly 1500 eggs a day and live for up to 2 years?
 
9- The queen is the only sexually developed female in the hive.
 
10- In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
 
11-  A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen.
 
12- It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.