156. Why we need the honey bee on this planet with really cool facts you'll love to hear from Bee Keepers Robert Hughes and Roger Hicks.

<p><strong>1. The practice of beekeeping is a </strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34749846"><strong>9,000-year-old tradition</strong></a><strong>. Some of the world's first beekeepers were prehistoric farmers. Today, there are </strong><a href="https://www.honey.com/newsroom/presskit/honey-industry-facts"><strong>between 115,000 and 125,000 beekeepers</strong></a><strong> in the US.</strong></p> <p><strong>2. Bees may be able to differentiate between different human faces (kind of).</strong></p> <p><strong>3. Honeybees communicate with each other via physical movements like head butts, which researchers say could mean "stop," and waggle dances that could signal where the nest is.</strong></p> <p><strong>4. A queen bee can live up to five years. Workers for just five or six weeks.</strong></p> <p><strong>5. Queen bees lay up to 2,000 eggs per day.</strong></p> <p><strong>6. The average worker bee makes just </strong><a href="https://www.honey.com/newsroom/presskit/honey-trivia"><strong>one-twelfth of a teaspoon</strong></a><strong> of honey over its entire lifespan.</strong></p> <p><strong>7. Worker honeybees can fly up to 20 miles per hour (32 kilometers per hour).</strong></p> <p><strong>Robert Hughes’ family have been beekeeping for 4 generations. Robert started beekeeping over 50 years ago. &nbsp;For the past 15 years, Robert has been teaching Beekeeping classes at the Johnson County Community College in Kansas City. &nbsp;He established an apiary on the college campus so the students can learn to work with bees. &nbsp;In this podcast Robert and one of his students, Roger Hicks, share all about bees and their importance to our planet.</strong></p> <p><strong>BEEKEEPERS.com &nbsp;- to learn about Robert's classes and all of the Bee Keepers supplies you'll need</strong></p>