bee, n.Trivia

Queen bees can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day

Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica.

Bees can fly higher than 29,525 feet above sea level. Higher than Mount Everest.

Bees are the only insect that produce food that people eat.

A queen bee is created by a few randomly selected larva (irrespective of gender) being fed Royal Jelly to make them develop queen morphology

Bees have five eyelids.

Bees are the only insect that creates a form of food for humans

Early striptease featured women disrobing while pretending to try and find a bee in their clothing.

A honeybee has the same amount of hairs as a squirrel - 3 million. The hairs allow them to carry as much pollen as possible.

Honeybees can recognize human faces.

Bees can be trained to detect explosives, illegal drugs, and even various diseases that affect humans.

Some plants can 'hear' bees coming and respond by making sweeter nectar.

Modern beehives with 'frames' are only possible because bees will not build in a gap that is very specifically 6-9 mm in width. This is called "bee space".

Bees can affect the electric charge of a flower, which tells other bees that the flower is currently out of nectar.

Bees beat their wings about 11,400 times per minute

Bees are more likely to sting you on a windy day.

Bees ingest and regurgitate nectar numerous times during the production of honey.

One bee will only make 1/12 of a teaspoon on honey in its entire life,

Honeybees, despite having the brain size of a sesame seed, can count up to four and can understand the concept of zero

bees will seek out alcohol and get drunk--and "bouncers" at the hive refuse to let them in until they sober up