Fun Bee Facts

Fun Facts about Bees

• One third of all the food that we eat is pollinated by bees.
• In a bee’s short lifetime, she flies the equivalent of one and one-half times around the circumference of the earth.
• Bees can fly as fast as 15 miles per hour.
• It takes 5,000 flower visits for bees to make one teaspoon of honey.
• A bee can only sting once. When she stings, her stinger remains in her victim’s flesh. She dies shortly thereafter.
• A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs per day.