Honeybee

• There are three types of bees in the hive queen worker and drone
  
•  Workers live about 45 days in the summer drones are driven out of the hive in the fall Queens can live for up to five years
  
• The queen may lay 1500 or more eggs each day during her lifetime this daily egg production may equal her own weight she is constantly fed and groomed by attendant bees
• Honeybees fly at 15 mph
  
• In comparison, a true fly in the genus Forcipomyia beats its wings over 62,000 cycles per minute. The Australian dragonfly Austrophlebia costalis has been clocked flying at a speed of 36 mph
  
• .Honeybees wings stroke 11,400 times per minute thus making their distinctive buzz
• Honeybees are the only insect that produce food used by humans
• Honeybees usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive they can travel up to 6 miles searching for food honey bees produce beeswax from eight paired glands on the underside of their abdomen, I like to call beeswax bee sweat
• Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting
  
• Unlike the stingers in wasps, the honeybee's stinger is barbed. Once the stinger pierces a mammal's soft skin, the attached venom pouch pumps a mixture containing melittin, histamine, and other enzymes into the target. When the bee pulls away, the barb anchors the stinger in the victim's body. The bee leaves the stinger and venom pouch behind and soon dies due to abdominal rupture.
  
• When a honeybee stings another insect,  she does not leave her stinger planted in the invader. As she retreats from the insect victim, her barbed stinger tears through the insect's exoskeleton. 
  
• Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approximately 80% of all fruit vegetable and seed crops in the United States of America
• Each year, bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion in the U.S. alone. All told, insect pollinators contribute to one-third of the world's diet.
  
• Honeybees have five eyes three small ones on top of their head and two big ones in front they also have hair on their eyes
  
• The three ocelli are simple eyes that discern light intensity, while each of the two large compound eyes contains about 6,900 facets and is well suited for detecting movement. In fact, honeybees can perceive movements that are separated by 1/300th of a second.
  
• Humans can only sense movements separated by 1/50th of a second.
• If they be entered a movie theater they would not see a continuous motion movie but rather each individual frame.
  
• Bees cannot recognize the color red,
  
• Honeybees can see two things that we cannot one is in the ultraviolet and the other is playing polarized light
  
• Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents).
  
• Bees brains are the size of a sesame seed about 20,000 times less massive than the human brain
• Bees can recognize individual human faces
  
• Bees can count to four
  
• Honey bees bees belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants.
  
• Most researchers believe the honeybee originated in Africa. The first European colonists introduced Apis mellifera,the common honeybee, to the Americas.
  Native Americans referred to the bees as "White Man's Flea."
  
• Today honeybees can be found all over the world.
  

• Honeybees must consume about 8 pounds of honey to biochemically produce each pound of wax beeswax
  
• Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly eaten, regurgitated and dehydrated.
• The average American consumes a little over one pound of honey a year.
• In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
• To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers.
• In a single collecting trip, a worker will visit between 50 and 100 flowers. She will return to the hive carrying over half her weight in pollen and nectar.
• A productive hive can make and store up to two pounds of honey a day. Thirty-five pounds of honey provides enough energy for a small colony to survive the winter.
• Theoretically, the energy in one ounce of honey would provide one bee with enough energy to fly around the world.
• Although Utah enjoys the title "The Beehive State," the top honey-producing states include California, Florida, and South Dakota.
  
• In 1998, the United States made over 89,000 metric tons of honey. China, the world's top honey-producer, created more than 140,000 metric tons of honey in 1997.
• While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. 

• During the mating flight several drones will deposit upwards of 90 million sperm in the queen's oviducts. The queen, however, will not use all the sperm. She stores about seven million sperm in a special pouch, the spermatheca. 
  
• While workers select which fertilized eggs to brood in queen or worker cells, the queen decides the sex of her young. In a mechanism of sex determination known as haplodiploidy, fertilized eggs will become female offspring, while unfertilized eggs will become males, or drones 
• In one day a queen can lay her weight in eggs. She will lay one egg per minute, day and night, for a total of 1,500 eggs over a 24-hour period and 200,000 eggs in a year. Should she stop her frantic egg-laying pace, her workers will move a recently laid egg into a queen cell to produce her replacement.

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