Why the Buzz? The honey bee’s wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to nine kilometers, and as fast as twenty five kilometers per hour3.

The bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man3.

Bees can recognize you Honeybees make out faces the same way we do. They take parts—like eyebrows, lips, and ears—and cobble them together to make out the whole face. It's called "configural processing," and it might help computer scientists improve face recognition technology4.

Bee species have different tongue lengths that adapt to different flowers5.

Nature's most economical builders In 36 BC, Marcus Terentius Varro argued that honeycombs were the most practical structures around. Centuries later, Greek mathematician Pappus solidified the "honeycomb conjecture" by making the same claim4.

There are over

20,000

species of bees in the world3.

City Stickers Bees love to live in urban settings where there are short flight paths and a variety of different plants and flowers to sample just as much as they love the country5.

It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world3.