Fun Honey
Bee Facts
did you know...
It takes 12 bees their whole life to make a teaspoon of honey
Bees visit
50-100 flowers
per trip
Bees smell is 50 times more powerful than a dog
Wax comes from a stomach gland in the Bee
It takes 10kg
of pollen to
produce 1kg of Honey
(And to produce 10kgs of pollen it takes 4 million flowers and a bee to fly the equivalent of 3 times round the world)
Bee Venom is stronger than cobra snake Venom
(19 stings per kg of body weight would be required to be deadly not considering a person who is an anaphylactic)
Bees fly at 24km per hour and weigh 1/10 of a gram
Bees have Jointed legs -no kneecaps
so there’s really is no such thing as the bees knees
Bees carry half there body weight
Bees
don’t sleep
but worker/flying bees will rest at night
Tahuna Gold Honey, family owned and operated, takes great pride in producing 100% pure honey of top quality, that is collected from some of the most beautiful local secluded locations around our district.
Tahuna Gold Honey (T/A Tahuna Apiaries Ltd)
Email: admin@goldhoney.co.nz