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Our bee facts and glossary are a collection of interesting facts about bees and also beekeeping terms that are commonly used.
HONEY BEE FACTS:
- A honey bee can fly up to 15 miles per hour.
- The average worker honey bee makes 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
- To make one pound of honey, honey bees must tap 2,000,000 flowers.
- A hive of honey bees must fly over 55,000 miles to bring in one pound of honey.
- It would take about one ounce (two tablespoons) of honey to fuel a honey bee’s flight around the world.
- The U.S. per capita consumption of honey is 1.31 pounds.
- To make one pound of honey, honeybees must gather 10 pounds of nectar.
- A honey bee visits between 50-100 flowers during one collection trip.
- Honeybees communicate through a series of “dances” and use the sun as a reference point to communicate to other bees the angle of flight to be followed to arrive at newly discovered nectar-bearing flowers.
GLOSSARY:
- Brood - Baby Bees
- Brood Chamber - Where eggs are laid and the young bees grow
- Propolis - A antibacterial material that bees create to clean the hive
- Royal Jelly - A special food that bees create and feed to young bees and the queen bee
- Bee Pollen - Gathered from plants and mixed with bee secretions to create food for young bees
- Nectar - Gathered from plants and used to make honey
- Foundation - Material in the hive where the bees lay eggs or store honey and food.
- Frame - Hold the foundation together when it is in the hive body.
- Honey Super - A hive body where the bees store honey
- Apiary - A place where bees and bee hives are kept
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