· Approximately 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.

· Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.

· One healthy hive contains approximately 40-45 thousand bees.

· Honeybees account for nearly 20 Billion Dollars of agricultural products in the US yearly.

· During the honey production period, a bee's life span is only 6 weeks.

· Honeybees visit approximately two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

· Bees fly an-average of 13-15 miles per hour.

· A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey- as far as 6 miles per round trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

· If honey bees became extinct, approximately one-third (1/3) of all food we eat would disappear for lack of Pollination.

· Nearly all wild honeybees are extinct due to the Tracheal Mites, Varroa Mites, and now the African Hive Beetle infestations throughout the US.

· Bees from the same hive visit approximately 225,000 flowers per day - bee usually visits between fifty and a thousand flowers per day, but sometimes up to several thousand.

· The queen will lay approximately 2,000 eggs per day at a rate of 5 or 6 per minute -between 175,000 and 200,000 eggs are laid per year.

· The average temperature of a hive is 93.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

· Beeswax production in most hives is only about 11/2% to 2% of the honey yield. honeybees .