Bees Facts – Some fun facts about honey bees | Bee Keeping How To Secrets

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Title: Bees Facts – Some fun facts about honey bees | Bee Keeping How To Secrets
Description: A list of fun and interesting facts on honey bees, and honey bees.
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Bee Keeping How To Secrets – Welcome! Contact Privacy Bees Facts -Random Bee Tidbits or “Just the Bees Facts Please” Honey bees are fascinating little bugs with strong work ethics. They will literally work themselves to death for their hive. But more then that the products they produce, honey and beeswax, have benefited human kind ever since we figured out how to get at their honey. Here’s some fun and fascinating bees facts in no particular order. Bees will travel the equivalent of flying 4 times around the earth to produce 2 pounds of honey. A colony of bees will visit about 225,000 flowers per day. A queen bee will lay almost 2000 eggs a day, or about 5 or 6 eggs per minute. The honey bee, who has five eyes, can see in ultra violet light. A queen lays between 175,000-200,000 eggs per year. The honey bee dances when it wants to tell other bees where to go to find honey and nectar. The bee has stiff, curved hairs on it back legs so it can carry a big load of pollen. Honey is the only food that contains the antioxidant pinocembrin, which is  associated with improved brain functioning. The honey bee’e eyes are made up of thousands of lenses. It uses the sun and other landmarks to figure out where its going and how to get back to the hive. It has three simple eyes on the top of its head. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors. Their sense of smell is so strong that they can tell different flowers apart and whether the flower has nectar or pollen, from long distances away. The honey bee has been in existence  for millions of years It survives harsh winters by living


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