Did You Know

• 1 kg of honey is the end result of bee’s tapping the nectar of approximately 3 MILLION flowers!
• Honey is the only food produced by insects for human consumption.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
• The temperature of the hive is 36°C
• A honey bee can fly up to 19 km/hr.
• The average worker honey bee makes 1 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
• The average life span of a worker honey bee is 4 to 6 weeks.
• A hive of honey bees must fly over 55,000 miles to bring in one kilo of honey.
• It would require about 2 tablespoons of honey to fuel a honey bee's flight around the world.
• A honey bee visits 50-100 flowers during a single collection trip.
• Honey bees communicate through a series of "dances" and use the sun as a reference point to communicate the angle of flight required to reach newly discovered nectar-bearing flowers.