Honey / Honey Bee Facts

Honey Facts

• Honey is an excellent antibiotic ointment.

• Honey can be used in any recipe to replace sugar.

• When used in recipes honey keeps cakes, cookies, and other dessert moist longer than table sugar.

• Eating local honey will build your tolerance to pollen allergies.

• Although it can ferment (spoil) if the moisture content exceeds 18%, honey does not have a shelf life.

• A productive hive can collect and store over two pounds of honey a day.

• The average hive in Walton County produces 130 pounds of surplus honey every year.

• It takes about 12 pounds of honey for honey bees to produce 1 pound of bees wax.

• Honey bees pollinate over 95 crops, increasing crop production by $10 billion in the U.S. alone.

• All total, honey bees contribute to 1/3 of the world’s diet.

• Diabetics should never use honey.

• Never feed honey to infants less than one year (12 months) of age.

Honey Bee Facts

• All worker bees are girls.

• Drones, (male honey bees) do not have stingers.

• Honey bees have 4 wings.

• Honey bees have 5 eyes and can not recognize the color red.

• Making up 95-100% of a colonies population worker bees do all of the work, and they are females.

• Honey bees tap about 2 million flowers flying over 55,000 miles to make 1 pound of honey.

• The average worker bee collects ½ teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

• Honey bees can not hear because they do not have ears, but they can feel vibrations in the air.