Interesting Honey Bee Facts:  

• Bees see colors differently than people; they see red as black, and their favorite colors are purple, blue and white.  By choosing the right plants, we can attract bees to our gardens providing them with much needed food. 

• Bees are the only insect in the world that make food that people can eat. 

• In its lifetime, 1 bee will make ½ of a teaspoon of honey.  Bees make honey so the colony has food to eat in the winter. 

• Bees need to visit 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey. To visit 2 million flowers, bees have to fly 55,000 miles, which is twice around the earth! 

• Approximately 50,000 bees live in a hive, all the bees work together.  Each has a job to do: the queen lays up to 2,000 eggs a day and the workers build the honeycomb, care for the larvae and collect the food. 

• Bees’ wings stroke about 200 beats per second making their distinctive “buzz”.  They fly 15-20 miles per hour and live for approximately 40 days. 

• Honey bees are not native to the Americas and were introduced by European settlers. 

• The earliest fossil of a bee dates to 130 million years ago.

 

       Come and visit our bees and other pollinators 

     at the Children’s Sensory and Butterfly Garden

     The Stable, 259 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood