5 Fun Bee Facts

Five Fun Facts about Bees

  • Honeybees build hexagon shaped cells because that shape can store the most honey while using the least amount of wax.
  • A honeybee hive is made up of one queen, thousands of female worker bees, and hundreds of male drone bees. Colonies can contain tens of thousands of bees.
  • Honeybees do not hibernate but they do cluster for warmth in the winter.
  • It takes a worker bee about 12 hours to secrete 8 wax scales. Around 1,000 scales must be created to make a single gram of wax.
  • Propolis is a resinous mixture bees use to seal open spaces in the hive.
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