DO YOU KNOW ?
- There is only one Queen bee in each hive.
- The queen bee lays from 1500 to 3000 eggs per day.
- A normal beehive has betwen 15000 to 60000 honeybees.
- The queen bee can live upto four years.
- A bee can fly with a speed of upto 35 km per hour.
- The queenbee mates with only 15 to 20 drones at the beginning of her life. She stores the sperm for the rest of her life.
- The six sided hexagonal shape of honey comb is the strongest shape per material weight.
- The drone mates about 1000 feet up in the air and falls dead.
- The entire population in the hive is female except for the drones.
- Drones are only about 0.25% of the beehive population.
- The life of a worker bee varies from 4 to 6 weeks in summer to 4 to 6 months in winter.
- It takes 8 to 10 pounds on nectar to make a pound of honey.
- It takes 8 to 10 pounds of honey to make a pound of beeswax.
- A bee travels about 80000 kilometres and visits about two million flowers to make a pound of honey.
- A bee needs only one ounce of honey as fuel for going round the world
- Man's first alcoholic beverage-mend-is wine made from Honey
- Honeybees go as far as six kilometres from their hives for collection of nectar.
- The eggs are the size of a quarter of a gram of rice.
- A drone, coming from an unfertilized egg has no stingers.
- The sole function of a drone is to mate with the Queenbee.
- Honeybees can identify a flavour as sweet, sour, salty or bitter.
- Drones cannot feed themselves and are fed by workerbees.
- A queenbee is fed royal jelly throughout its development and lifespan.
- A workerbee can carry half her weight in nectar and pollen and still fly.
- The honeybee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
- Honey is not advised by children below one year of age.
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