11 Things You Should Know Right Now About Honey Bees

[pbmus]

1. A hive of honey bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around earth, to collect 2.2 pounds of nectar to produce honey.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimbeam/things-you-should-know-about-honey-bees-right-now

[MohRokTah]

1. 12) Worker bees literally work themselves to death

A worker bee will eventually leave on a collection flight and never return because she died performing her duties.

[L0oniX]

3. This is the kind of worker corporations dream about.

[QC]

2. kick

[Brother Buzz]

4. A typical honey bee hive can make up to 400 pounds of honey per year?

400 pounds is hardly typical, and any commercial Western honey producer making that claim is pulling your leg.

Perhaps a moist region hobbyist (east coast) with time on their hand, and the needed resources (brood comb from other hives, and a ready supply of replacement queens after swarming) could manipulate a boomer box to produce 400 pounds for bragging rights, but that's anything but typical.

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay.
A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon.
A swarm in July isn’t worth a fly

[MohRokTah]

5. 100 pounds gives ya bragging rights, IMO. Eom

[Brother Buzz]

6. A 10 pound boomer swarm (beach ball size)....

placed on drawn comb can produce 100 pounds. Been there, done that. Eighty pounds is extremely respectable for established stationary colonies.