Amazing Bee Facts
and Science Trivia

It is amazing when you consider all of the phenomenal bee facts and learn how these interesting arthropods - our most important insect resource - contribute to our food chain.

• Through their efforts in pollination of crops such as almonds, avocados, apples, blueberries, cucumbers, cherries, and many others, honeybees are directly responsible for providing about one-third of the food we eat!
  

• Each spring, commercial keepers travel to California farms transporting by truck about one million hives from all across the United States to provide pollination services during the almond crop season.
  

• How many hives of honeybees is required for pollination of New York's apple orchards each year? 30,000 hives
  

• At Sensible Green Living, we love blueberries! How many hives do Maine's blueberry farms need for effective pollination each year?
  A remarkable 50,000 hives! (Well worth it, if you ask me!)
  Bee Facts: Cross Pollinators
  Health benefits of honey
  How do bees make honey?
  The Bee Sting!