The average lifespan of a western honey bee is about 45 days.
In its lifetime, a bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To put that another way, it takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make just one teaspoon of honey.
Honey bees visit 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
A strong hive may contain up to 60,000 honey bees.
One honey bee hive visits about 225,000 flowers per day.
One honey bee colony has a foraging range of 18,000 acres.
North America has more than 4,000 species of native bees. Most of them are ground nesting.
