Fun Facts

Did You Know:

A single honeybee makes 0.8g (1/10 tsp) of honey in its lifetime.
Bees contribute not only to the increased production of fruits and vegetables, but also to their size. (Crop pollination).
A honeybee flies at a maximum speed of 24 km/h and its wings beat 200 times per second, or 12,000 times per minute.
The colour and taste of honey varies, depending on the flowers (the source of nectar) visited by the bees.
The average lifespan of a honeybee during the working season is about six weeks.
In the summer, a colony of honeybees contains 50,000 to 80,000 bees.
The average Canadian consumes 1kg of honey a year.

Bees have four wings.
As native pollinators continue to disappear, the production of many everyday foods depends more and more on honeybees.
Honeybees must visit about 4 million flowers to produce 1kg of honey.
The individual cells of a honeycomb have six sides.
Bees have been producing honey from flowers for about 10 to 20 million years.
The bulging eyes of the drones help them to spot the queen.
In Canada, the value of fruits, vegetables and legumes from plants pollinated by bees is more than ten times the value of honey production.

There are nearly 11,000 beekeepers in Canada.
Each time a honeybee leaves the hive to seek food, it visits 50 to 100 flowers.
Mead is the name for wine produced from fermented honey.
A single colony of honeybees is enough to pollinate an entire acre of fruit trees.
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are the Canadian provinces that produce the most honey.
There are no African honeybees in Canada.