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Honeybees are the only insect that produces food humans eat.

Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life.

The queen honeybee lays between 1,000 and 3,000 eggs per day.

The queen only mates once. She stores the sperm for use over her egg-bearing lifetime.

A healthy hive has 40,000 – 60,000 bees.

A worker bee lives roughly 40 days. During its lifetime, it will produce 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey.

A bee’s brain is about the size of a sesame seed.

We say bees “buzz,” but they’re really beating their wings 11,400 times per minute.

Honeybees fly about fifteen miles per hour.

Bees don’t hibernate. They huddle together in winter, sharing body heat.

Honeybees comprise about 80% of all pollinators.

Bees see the same colors we can, except for red. They CAN see ultraviolet.

Different flowers produce subtle differences in the color, taste and texture of honey.

Happy National Honey Bee Awareness Day!