Did you know ...
- Each bee makes .5 teaspoons of honey in her lifetime.
- Bees fly about 55,000 miles to collect enough nectar to produce 1 pound of honey.
- A typical colony produces 25 pounds of honey.
- Bees eat 6-8 pounds of honey to produce 1 pound of wax.
- Bees forage up to five miles away from their hives.
- Bees fly at the rate of 12 miles per hour.
- All worker bees are females.
- There are about 50,000 bees in a colony at peak season.
- Bees typically live 4-6 weeks.
- A queen can live up to four years.
- Baby bees learn how to make honey from older bees.
- Bees don't poop inside their hive - they go on "cleansing flights."
- A honey bee dies after she stings.
- Drones (male bees) cannot sting
DUE TO WEATHER FORECAST and HONEYBEES NOT LIKING RAIN, we will not be opening hives for the Public.