n To make one pound of honey bees must tap 2 million flowers.

n To bring you one pound of honey, a hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles.

n One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day

n  The average worker honey bee makes  ¹/₁₂ teaspoon of honey in her lifetime

n A honey bee flies about 15 mph

n A bee can fly about 8 ½ miles in a one-way trip.

n There are 30-60,000 bees in an average hive.       

n The average life span of a worker bee in summer is 7-8 weeks (from egg to adult)

n The life span of a queen is about 2-8 years.

n Queens will lay approximately 1500 eggs per day at the rate of 5 or 6 a minute.