A bee has to travel about 80,000 kms and visit roughly 2 million flowers to make half a kilo of honey

One beehive accommodates between 15,000 to 60,000 honeybees

There is only one Queen Bee in each hive, who is fed royal jelly (produced by the glands of the worker bees) all her life

A bee can fly at a speed of up to 35 km per hour. The six-sided hexagonal honeycomb is the strongest shape in nature

Bees constantly exchange messages amongst themselves, but they can't talk

So they communicate through codified dances, vibrations and body chemicals

Drones are the bees meant to mate with the Queen bee

They make up just 0.25% of the entire beehive population

Mating is fatal for the drone

It mates with the Queen bee about 1,000 feet above ground and then falls down dead

It takes 8 to 10 pounds of nectar to make a half a kilo of honey

A bee needs just one ounce of honey to take it around the world 

Honey Bees can distinguish flavours as sweet, sour, salty or bitter 

Drones cannot feed themselves and depend on the worker bees to be fed 

A worker bee can carry half her weight in nectar and pollen while flying 

Once a bee uses its sting, it has to die