To get us in the mood, Colony co-director Ross McDonnell gives us the following facts about bees. Check out the new Colony movie website for more!  

Bees: The Facts.

The honeybee has been around for 30 million years.

It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.

The average honeybee will actually make only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

Worker honeybees are female, live 6 to 8 weeks and do all the work.

The Queen bee lives for about 2-3 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months and lays up to 2500 eggs per day.

The male honeybees are called drones, and they do no work at all, have no stinger, all they do is mate.

It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.

Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing".

Honeybees maintain a constant temperature of 93.5 degrees around the queen, fanning with their wings when it’s hot and ‘clustering’ around her to generate heat during the winter.

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