DID YOU KNOW?

Honey bees have five eyes, fly at a speed of around 25km per hour, and beat their wings 230 times per second.

It would cost UK farmers

£1.8 billion per year to pollinate their crops without bees.

97% of the UK’S flower-rich meadows have been lost since the 1930s.

There are around 25,000 species of bee – not all make honey or sting. However, all of them are master pollinators.

While most people’s mental image of a bee is the striped, furry bumblebee, these only account for 1% of bee species.