Bee Facts

- Apiculture is the farming of bees.

- Honeybees visit 50-100 flowers during one honey collecting trip.

- One honeybee makes only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

- The honeybee's wings stroke 11,400 times per minute.

- A bee flies at a rate of about 12 miles per hour.

- There are 250 bumblebee species in the world.

- Bees never sleep.

- The smallest bee in the world is the dwarf bee (5/64" long).

- The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto (1.5" long).