Ten fun facts about Bees
Fact 1:
There are over 12000 species of bees.
Fact 2:
Bees have been creating honey for more than 150 million years.
Fact 3:
Worker bees are the smallest bees in the colony.
Fact 4:
Drones are male bees without a stinger.
Fact 5:
In one trip a honey bee will visit about 50 to 100 flowers.
Fact 6:
Honey bees commuicate with each other through a kind of dace language.
Fact 7:
One of the only natural enemies of bumblebees are skunks.
Fact 8:
Honey bees wings beat 11400 times per minute.
Fact 9:
The workers are sexually undeveloped females.
Fact 10:
Bees cannot recognize the color red.
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