Check out these fun bee math facts. Honeybees are fascinating!
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A honeybee can fly up to 15 miles per hour.
A worker bee only makes an average of 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
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One ounce of honey would fuel a bees flight around the world.
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A pound honey is made by 2 million flower visits. The bees fly 55,000 miles back and forth to bring in that honey.
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A honeybee visits 50-100 flowers in one trip.
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Honey comb is hexagon (six-sided) shaped. The wall of comb is 2/1000 inch thick, but can support 25 times its weight.
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Honeybees beat their wings 11,400 times per minute. This is beating of wings makes the buzzing noise.
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An average hive has 50,000 to 60,000 worker bees.
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The honeybee is the only insect that produces food for humans.
A honeybee has 170 odorant receptors, giving them an acute sense of smell roughly 50 times more powerful than the average dog's.
Bees have a total of five eyes: two large compound eyes on the sides of their head and three smaller eyes on the top that help them detect shifts in light and map the horizon.
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