Fall News!!!!
Time to start feeding your bees. Remember it is 2 cups sugar to 1 cup water for fall !!
FUN FACTS
HONEY BEES
Did you know a queen bee can lay up to 2000 eggs a day and up to 50000 worker bees do all the work?
Did you know that the drone bees dies after they mate with the queen bee?
Did you know that it takes 15 days to make a queen, 21 days to make a worker bee and 24 days to produce a drone bee ?
Did you know the lifespan of a queen bee is 2 years, a worker bees lives only 30 days and a drone only lives for 32 days or after mating ?
Did you know that honey is one of the safest foods it will not go bad?
Did you know a worker bee will only gathers 0.0288 of an ounces of honey in its entire life?
Did you know that it requires 556 worker bees to gather 1 full pound of honey?
Did you know beeswax is a substance made from 6 wax glands on the underside of the abdomen of a worker bee?
Did you know honey bees account for about 80% of all insect-pollinated food that humans eat?
