In order to have 100 grams of honey, a bee must fly a distance of 46,000 km, which is equal to the distance of a round of the earth.
A bee can pollinate for 7000 trees in one day
A bee can carry 40 -50 mg of honey in his stomach, but 70% of honey is consumed for 3 km of flight in order to offset the energy for his body. That is the reason why bees are located near the source of honey. In order to have one tablespoon of honey (30gram), 200 bees have to collect honey all day. And storing honey in the 75 holes of beehive they need 1 gram of beeswax.
If bee colony weighs 3 kg, only 40-50% of bees participate in collecting honey. Everytime collecting honey, amount of these bees collect 500 grams of honey for their beehives. A number of remain bees are busy with feeding larvae, building hive, producing honey and other tasks.
A "female" queen from birth until death, everyday she "produces" about 700-800 eggs.
Larvae of queen increase up to 3,000 times in size during 5 days in development processing, worker bees increase 1,500 times in size.
Hole of beehive have the best reasonable geometric shapes in nature. It has the level of correctness incredialely: the angle of the hole is 109 0 28 '. 100 holes require minimum of 1.3 grams of beeswax.
Bees are the champion of smell, they feel and distinguish odors stronger 1,000 times than humans. They smell the fragrance of flowers at a distance of more than 1 km.
Source: www.khoahoc.com.vn
