15 Most Important Facts about Honey Bees [Infographic]

Honey  bees play an important role in our lives, it provides pollination of fruits and vegetable crops. The crops pollinated by honey bees are almonds, pears, cherries, apples, blueberries, seed onions, kiwi, carrot seed, melon, etc. The main honey making process of honey bees is  visiting flower and gathering some its nectar. Honey extraction process is easily done with the help of honey bees rescue or honey bee removal professional. If you want to get rid of honey bees then  read the given blog i.e

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There are some very important facts about honey bees that you must know

1. The honey bee is an ultimate explosive detector because they have a phenomenal sense of smell.
2. A single honey bee worker produces approx 60 lbs of honey during the winter season. It’s about 1/12^th of a teaspoon honey in her lifetime.
3. A honey bee colony build up with the help of 20,000-60,000 honey bees, including nurse bees, guard bees, queen bees, etc.
4. A honey bee called industrious worker bee, carry pollen from many different flowers and visit approx 2,000 flowers a day.
5. The honey bee is the only fly or insect that produces food is eaten by human beings. Honey is the only food that contains all the necessary substances to sustain for life.
6. Dancing is a honey bee “Communication Code” hence with the help of dancing, honey bee can easily communicate with each other. Honey bees waggle and dance inform other bees about the location of flowers.
7. Honey bees do not fly below 50 degree Fahrenheit and hence stay in the hives during rainy season, when the air pressure drops.
8. The honey bee can fly very fast about 200 beats per second and up to six miles.
9. A queen honey bee lays up to 2500 eggs per day and main job to fill the hive with eggs. This bee can live up to 5 years.
10. The youngest honey bee produces “beeswax” using eight paired glands on their abdomens.
11. The honey bee has great capacity to learn and calculate complex calculations on distance travelled.
12. It has an awesome sense of smell through which honey bee can differentiate the floral varieties.
13. A single bee hive can easily produce up to 150 kg of honey in a year.
14. Honey bees produce honey for at least 160 millions ago.
15. Honey bees also produce honey wax, royal jelly, Propolis, etc.