Quick Facts: Honey

• Honey bees must tap into two million flowers to make one pound of honey.1
• Madame du Barry, the last mistress of Louis XV, used honey as a form of facial mask.1
• The average worker bee makes only 1 1⁄2 teaspoons of honey in its lifetime.1
• Mead is a type of wine manufactured from honey.1
• Utah is known as The Beehive State.1
• Traditionally, Chinese women use a blend of honey and ground orange seeds to keep their skin blemish-free.1
• Bees communicate with each other by doing a dance that alerts other bees about the direction and distance of the nearest pollen.1