20/05/2026
On World Bee Day some honey bee facts — did you know?
A single honey bee makes just 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime, and a colony of honey bees can produce 10-14 kg of surplus honey in a good season.
Honey bees ‘waggle dance’, a sophisticated figure‑of‑eight movement that tells nestmates the direction and distance of food sources.
Worker bees change jobs as they age — from cleaning cells and feeding larvae to guarding the hive and finally foraging.
A queen bee can lay up to 2,000 eggs a day during peak season, maintaining the strength and productivity of the colony.
Honey bees can fly at around 15 mph and visit up to 5,000 flowers in a single day, making them extraordinarily efficient pollinators.
Each colony contains one queen, thousands of female workers, and a few hundred male drones, whose sole purpose is to mate with a queen.
