It’s World Bee Day! Here are a few fun facts about these incredible creatures: 🐝 There are around 20,000 bee species in the world. 🍓 About 1 out of every 3 mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators like bees. 🌺 Bees especially love flowers in the blue-violet color range, like bluebells and lavender. | Green Mountain Energy Company

Honey bee facts I bet you didn’t know down below: 1.) The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, it will produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey. 2.) The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day! 3.) If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“. This enables the larva t