Beefacts

An industrious bee can visit up to 2,000 flowers per day.

A single honey bee produces about one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

Honey bees use the most complex symbolic language of any animal on earth, outside of primates.

It is believed that bees first appeared about 130 million years ago, along with the first flowering plants.

It takes 30 grams of honey to fuel a bee’s flight around the world.

Honey is the only food that contains every nutrient a person needs to survive, including water.

The buzzing sound bees make is the flapping of their wings 12,000 times per minute.

Honey bees perform a waggle dance on their return to the hive, indicating that food is farther away. On the other hand, the round dance indicates that food is nearby.

The colour that honey bees recognise most easily is violet. They are barely able to recognise green.