Serving all of Southern California and Northern California
Bee Removal Hot Line 877-427-2818
Environmentally Safe Live Bee Removal
      Print    
Bees and Wasps Fun Facts
  • Bees can count to four

  • Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour

  • Bees and wasps are some of the most  feared insects due to their ability to sting and their great mobility

  • Bee stings actually cause several deaths in the United States each year

  • Honey bees will travel up to 3 miles from their hive in search of food

  • There are three types of bees in the hive – Queen, Worker and Drone

  • The Honey bee Queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day during her lifetime

  • Honey bees wings stroke 11,400 times per minute. This is what makes their distinctive buzz  

  • The only insect who produces food for humans are honeybees

  •  Honey bees never sleep!

  • Bees can recognize individual human faces

  • The only bees that die after they sting are Honey bees

  • Wasps on the other hand are able to sting repeatedly 

  • Honey bees have five eyes, 3 small ones on top of the head and two big ones in front  

  • Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones

  • Brains of bees are the size of a sesame seed, which are about 20,000 times smaller than the human brain

  • Honey bees have to consume about 8 pounds of honey to produce one pound of beeswax 

  • Honey bees are responsible for pollinating approximately 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S

  • Bees are a part of the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants

  • The female yellow jacket wasp lays both unfertilized and fertilized eggs

  • Female yellow jacket workers develop from the fertilized egg and male drones develop from the unfertilized egg

  • Bees are only able to sting once because the stinger of the bee remains in the victim’s skin. When the bee moves or is scraped away, the stinger is jerked from the bee’s body along with their venom sac causing their death

Expert Bee Removal Services - Live Bee Removal at No Extra Charge
Emergency Service Available
Serving Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area
Residential and Commercial Bee Removal
   
© 2010 Bee Friendly Bee Removal All rights reserved. About Us    |    Contact Info    |    Site Map    |    RSS