A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey. During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.
Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans. About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax. Beeswax production in most hives is about 1 1/2% to 2% of the total honey yield.
Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees! The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.
Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year. The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.
The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.
Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand. A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.