September - National Honey Month

In celebration of National Honey Month, I thought some interesting facts about honey bees might be in order -

• To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 300 bees.
• Honey bees never sleep!
• Honey bees will visit between 50-100 flowers during one nectar collection trip
• The honey bee is the only insect that produces a food eaten by man.
• The ‘waggle dance’ is performed by a honey bee to inform the rest of the workers about the location, quantity and quality of nectar.
• Honey stored in air tight containers never spoils. Sealed honey vats found in King Tut’s tomb still contained edible honey, despite over 2,000 years beneath the sands.

Resources

Honey Bees http://www.squidoo.com/Honey-honeybees

Honey Bee Facts  http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/honey-bee-facts.html