- Here are some fun trivia questions for you. See the bottom of the section for the answers.
- How fast does a honey bee fly?
- How many flowers must honey bee tap to make one pound of honey?
- What state is known as the beehive state?
- How many wings does a honey bee have?
- How much honey does the average worker honey bee make in her lifetime?
Facts about Honey/Bees
- There is only one queen in each colony. She is the mother of the colony, laying more than 1,800 eggs a day.
- One bee would have to make 154 trips, carrying tiny amounts of nectar from the flower to the hive, just to make one teaspoonful of honey.
- One worker bee actually makes only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. But working together, a colony of bees may bring in as much as 50 pounds of nectar in a day and make 200 or 300 pounds of honey in a year.
- Honeybees communicate through their movements. They attract the attention of other bees and let them know where to find nectar using movements that look like a dance. The movements show the other bees which way to go and how far.
- People use beeswax to make candles, lipsticks, lotions, shoe polish, crayons, chewing gum, and floor wax.
- When bees are swarming, they will not attack, because they have no home to protect.
- Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- Honeybees are the only insects that produce food eaten by humans.
- Bee Dance Lesson
- Bee Smart, Bee Happy
- Bee's Wax
- If Not for the Pollinators
- Exploring Honey
- Specialty Crop Ag Mag
- Pollinator Ag Mag
- Pollinator Terra Nova
- Pollinator Young Reader Fact Sheet
- Insect mAGic Kit (available for loan from Rock Island AITC)
- http://nas-sites.org/pollinators/
- http://www.honey.com
- http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/beeGame/default.htm
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/
- https://www.agclassroom.org/ok/resources_facts/agfacts_bees.php
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