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1. Did you know that male drone bees do not work at all, and in fact the only work they do is to mate?
2. Did you know that in fact drones do not even have a sting?
3. The bees that do the work in a bee colony are the female workers.
4. A queen will mate with up to 17 drone bees over a two day period during her mating flights.
5. In any one day, a queen can lay over 2000 eggs and she is the only one in the colony who can do so.
6. After she has mated she stores the sperm from the drone bees in her spermatheca and does not attempt to mate again in her lifetime.
7. They will tend to construct their hives either in the ground or high above in trees or on roofs, the only bees who do not do this are carpenter bees who instead make their homes in untreated wood and timber.
8. The average speed of a bee is 15 mph.
9. In order to make a pound of honey, it has been calculated that 556 bees will need to visit one million flowers to make this at all possible.
10. Did you know that It takes an astonishing 1110 stings to kill a human?
11. In order to communicate with each other, Honey bees dance for each other to let each other know what is going on.
12. Did you know that They are also extremely scrupulous about keeping their hives as clean as possible?
13. Of all the crops that we consume, bees are responsible for pollinating a third of them making them the highest pollinators of all insects.
14. The average colony contains 60000 bees which can be a frightening sight and why people resort to bee control out of fear.
15. Honey bees will look to visit 50 to 100 flowers during one nectar collection trip when they go out looking to bring it back to their nest.
16. In hives in the United Kingdom, they produce 6000 tonnes of honey each and every year.
17. Honey has some amazing life giving qualities that help other creatures to keep sustained.
18. Did you know that Honey never goes off? In fact a jar of 2000 year old honey in an Egyptian tomb was found by explorers on an expedition and it was said to taste delicious.
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