*Honey bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute. *Bees' flight speed averages only 15 miles per hour. *Bees possess five eyes. *Honeybees can perceive movements that are separated by 1/300th of a second. Humans can only sense movements separated by 1/50th of a second. Were a bee to enter a cinema, it would be able to differentiate each individual movie frame being projected. *Bees cannot recognize the color red. *Honeybees' stingers have a barb which anchors the stinger in the victim's body. The bee leaves its stinger and venom pouch behind and soon dies from abdominal rupture. *Africanized Honey Bees (killer bees) will pursue an enemy 1/4 mile or more. *Honeybees communicate with one another by "dancing" so as to give the direction and distance of flowers. *A single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees. *Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years. *The honeycomb is composed of hexagonal cells with walls that are only 2/1000 inch thick, but support 25 times their own weight. *Honey is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated. *In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. *To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. *Theoretically, the energy in one ounce of honey would provide one bee with enough energy to fly around the world. *The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones. A rather amazing little creature! Pity it didn't see the web... *Little Miss Muffet of the nursery rhyme really existed. She was the daughter of Dr Mouffet who believed spiders had healing powers when eaten. *The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population. *There can be up to nearly 5 million spiders per hectare. *The combined length of thread in a spider's web is about 20-60 m and it can take the spider up to 3 hours to make an orbweb. *On an equal weight basis, spider silk is twice as strong as steel. In addition, spider silk is very elastic. It is this combination of strength and stretch that makes the energy-to-break of spider silk so high. Simply put, it is the toughest material known. *Spiders have 48 "knees": 8 legs with 6 joints on each. *A jumping spider can jump up to 25 times its own body length. Hope you all have a happy New Year! Cheers ;-)