Amazing facts about Honey

If you think bees make honey like how hens lay eggs, think again. The following facts about honey and bees alike will leave you pondering about the amazing life form that produces this healthy and rich liquid known to all as honey.

The next time you have a cup of honey drink, be sure to savour every last drop of it!  A honeybee has to travel over 55,000 miles and visits approx. 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey.

• A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour.
• Honeybees are the only insect that produces food for humans.
• It’s about time you consider adding honey in your Camper’s Survivor Kit! Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including water.
• A typical beehive makes more than 400 pounds of honey per year
• Bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax consume · Approximately 7-8 pounds of honey.
• Honeybees are a great scientific mystery because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years even though the world has changed around them.
• Honeybees will usually travel approximately 3 miles from their hive.
• A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
• A honeybee will flap its wings about 11,400 times per minute creating the “buzz” that you hear.
• Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
• Honeybees are entirely herbivorous when they forage for nectar and pollen, but can cannibalize their own brood when stressed. Yes, just when you thought that
  
• Honey speeds the healing process and combats infections, another item to add to your first aid kit for camping!
• If you’re wondering why you can’t find an expiry date on your bottle of honey, that’s because honey never spoils!
  
• It would take about 1 ounce of honey to fuel a honeybee’s flight around the world.
• You know how you scan ID cards at front doors or even when taking the bus? Honeybee colonies have unique odors that members flash like ID cards at the hive’s front door, so the guard bees can recognize the entering bees.
• Honeybees are responsible for approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.