BEE FACTS

Ten fun facts about Bees!

Fact 1:
There are over 12000 species of bees.

Fact 2:
Bees have been creating honey for more than 150 million years.

Fact 3:
Worker bees are the smallest bees in the colony.

Fact 4:
Drones are male bees without a stinger.

Fact 5:
In one trip a honey bee will visit about 50 to 100 flowers.

Fact 6:
Honey bees communicate with each other through a kind of dace language.

Fact 7:
One of the only natural enemies of bumblebees are skunks.

Fact 8:
Honey bees wings beat 11400 times per minute.

Fact 9:
The workers are sexually undeveloped females.

Fact 10:
Bees cannot recognize the color red.