Giant Bee

Whatever you bee-lieve, you can achieve!!! The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour, hence it would have to fly around 90,000 miles -three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee’s flight around the world. Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water. Honey bees produce beeswax from eight paired glands on the underside of their abdomen. Honey bees must consume about 17-20 pounds of honey to be able to biochemically produce each pound of beeswax. Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit in their central brood nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is 110 or -40 degrees. A populous colony may contain 40,000 to 60,000 bees during the late spring or early summer. The queen bee lives for about 2-3 years. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs a