1. Bees perform a "waggle dance" to give directions. When a worker honeybee finds a patch of sweet flowers, she flies back to the hive and performs a special figure-eight dance. The angle and length of her dance tell other bees the exact direction and distance to the flowers!

2. A single bee makes only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her life. Honeybees work tirelessly, visiting around 2,000 flowers a day, but it takes the teamwork of tens of thousands of bees to make a single jar of sweet honey.

3. Bees have five eyes! In addition to two large compound eyes on the sides of their head (which help them see ultraviolet light on flower petals), bees have three small simple eyes called ocelli on top of their head to help them navigate using sunlight.

4. Honeybees beat their wings 200 times every second. That rapid movement is what creates their classic "buzzing" sound! A bee can fly at speeds up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) to gather food for her colony.

5. Bees carry pollen in special "baskets" on their back legs. A bee’s body is covered in tiny fuzzy hairs that static electricity causes pollen to stick to. The bee brushes the pollen into little stiff pockets on her hind legs called corbiculae (pollen baskets) to carry it home.

6. Queen bees can lay up to 2,000 eggs every single day. The queen is the largest bee in the hive and can live for several years, while all the female worker bees busy themselves building honeycombs, making food, and taking care of her eggs.

7. Honey never spoils. Because honey has very little water and natural acids, bacteria cannot grow in it. Archaeologists have found pots of edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old!