Bees make Honey, Beeswax, and Royal Jelly but they collect Pollen and Propolis.

Bees will not leave their hive if it is too cold or too wet.

The average honeybee lives for about 6 weeks during the working season.

Every bee colony has an individual  smell unique to its colony and the guards will protect its hive from any intruders.

The honeybee queen can live up to 3 years.

The male bee in the hive are called drones and they don’t do any work, they are fed and cleaned by the workers.

Bees fly up to 15 miles per hour and can fly to a distance of 3 miles from the hive.

All bees have 4 wings and 6 legs as they are insects.

The worker bees in a hive are all female and do all the work.

Did you know that there are three castes of bee in a hive, Queen, Drone and Worker bees.