Fact 1# Bees can still fly even if its body is twice its size of it’s wings.

Fact 2# The bees go through a lot to collect the nectar and most will not
return to the hive.

Fact 3# When a bee pollinates pollen sticks to their legs and it sprinkles onto
the other flowers.

Fact 4# Bee keepers use a smoking machine to send the bees to sleep and so
they can collect the honey without being stung.

Fact 5# Wasps don’t exactly produce their own honey so they attack bee
hives just to take some honey.

Fact 6# If a hive hasn’t got enough honey it will steal from others.

Fact 7# Some bees can not sting at all but they usually don’t make as much
honey as others can.

Fact 8# The more aggressive type of bee the more honey they make.

Fact 9# A bee can live up to 28 to 35 days depending what kind it is.

Fact 10# There are three types of bees in a hive the most common type of
bee in a hive is the female worker that collects the nectar there is the male
drones that look after the eggs and the queen and fertilise her. And the queen
bee who lays eggs her whole life.

Fact 11# When a queen is going to die it lays it’s last egg and that egg will
be fed royal jelly when it’s a larvae. But sometimes they feed more then one
royal jelly and the first one that hatches will become queen while the others
will be sent out.
Fact 12# When a hive gets to full of honey or worker bees they will move
out if the queen is quite old they will make a new queen and fly to a new
hive and leave a few bees and the queen be hide. Or they will take the queen
with them for she can fly too but you can’t see her because she would be in
the middle.

Fact 13# Each year bee keepers make more then 2 000 tons honey.

Fact 14# Bees don’t just do flowers but vegetables in fact 25% of USA’s
food is pollinated by bees.

Fact 15# A bees wax is used in plenty of stuff wax for surf boards pencils
gel shampoo food and thread is dipped into it to make it stronger.

Fact 16# A bee isn’t just attacked by wasps but honey bears that attack the
hive to get the honey.

Fact 17# If we killed all the bees in the world all plants would die and
without the plants animals would die.

Fact 18# Every second in a hive a bee dies since there are so many.

Fact 19# A drones job is to fertilize the queen so she can lay eggs and they
take the egg into a little cell and seal it up with wax.

Fact 20# When the egg is in the cell it will hatch into a lava and it will eat
what ever it was given either it could be fed female worker bee food male
drone food or royal jelly to become queen.

Fact 21# A queen bee can live up to 1 to 4 years much longer then a worker
bee and still quite a bit for a drone.

Fact 22# Once a drone mates with the Queen bee he will die instantly.

Fact 23# If a drone never mates it will live up to 4 months.

Fact 24# Worker bees are the smallest then it’s the drones then it’s the
Queen.
Fact 25# Bumble bees have their own hives too but they aren’t as organized
so they don’t collect as much nectar as honey bees do.

Fact 26# Did you know the main reason a bee stings is that it thinks it’s
going to kill him or your attacking his hive a bee is to busy to bother with
humans but if the human bothers it then it will sting.

Fact 27# Once a bee stings in a couple of minutes the bee will die for it has
something attached to the end of it’s stinger and when it comes out it will
die. Though sometimes when it breaks off there might be a chance it
survives.

Fact 28# Among humans there are quite a lot of people who are allergic to
bees either they get a normal rash or they swell up and that’s when it gets
bad.

Fact 29# There’s a phobia out there that makes you terrified of bees some
people get so scared of bees that they get heart attacks or coup themselves in
their own house.

Fact 30# When a bee stings it’s only doing it for the good of the hive its
saying “Don’t do that again or my hive will do it to you,” it’s only a matter
of defense not to say stop that.

Fact 31# Worker bees live for 4 weeks in summer.

Fact 32# A bee makes wax when it eats honey when it is 10 days old it has
pores in it’s body when it eats the honey the sugar mixes up to make the
wax.

Fact 33# Bees don’t talk by buzzing it’s only the vibration of their wings. A
bee can talk to another bee by doing a little dance. This is how they
communicate.

Fact 34# Bees have been doing their work for over 2 000 years.

Fact 35# Did you know that wasps exactly live shorter lives the worker bees.
Wasps live for 12 to 22 days and the queen lives for 12 months. But it makes
sense since a wasp doesn’t die when it stings.
Fact 36# Unlike bees when a wasp stings it does not die but it grows a new
stinger and usually they are more aggressive with it.

Fact 37# Wasps do not have hives and that’s why they steal from bee hives.

Fact 38# In some bigger hives they have two queen bees but in smaller ones
they only have one for they do not want to many worker bees.

Fact 39# A bee keeper helps the bees he will take the hive to where ever
there are good flowers. For example leather wood trees for leather wood
flowers.

Fact 40# Bees have black and yellow stripes to blend in with the flower so
predictors can’t see them.