honey, n.Trivia

Honey bees make honey to use as food during the winter months; (they actually burn a lot of calories in the winter flapping their wings to keep the hive warm)

Nepalese 'mad honey' is psychoactive hallucinogenic honey produced by bees pollinating rhododendron plants.

Honey ain't easy --- It takes 12 bees a lifetime of work to create a teaspoon of honey.

Honey bees aren't native to North America. They were brought by the colonists. The so-called "white man's fly" spread out faster than the white man himself and came to indicate the approach of European settlers.

Bees in Brooklyn were found producing red honey because of a nearby maraschino cherry factory

Honeycombs don't begin as hexagons, they are staggered circular tubes. Heat from activity softens the wax which softens into the most energy efficient shape, the hexagon.

Honey is the only natural food which never spoils

A single bee would need to fly 90,000 miles to make one pound of honey.

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

A single bee typically makes one-twelfth of honey in its lifetime.

Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten

Killer bees are not natural and were created by scientists trying to increase honey production.

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

The Himalayan Honey Bee – the largest of the honey bees – makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.

Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.

In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh

To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers

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

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".

Slaves have it bad --- A pharaoh is said ot have lathered his slave in honey to keep bugs away from him.