Meet the Bees: Fun Facts to Share with Your Kids About Pollinators 🐝🌻

On our farm, we spend a lot of time with some of the hardest workers you’ll ever meet—the honeybees! These tiny creatures may be small, but they play a BIG role in helping our food grow and keeping our world blooming.

Kids are naturally curious about bees, and learning about them can turn a little bit of fear into a lot of fascination. Here are some fun facts you can share with your family:

🐝 1. Bees help our food grow.

Did you know that 1 out of every 3 bites of food we eat depends on pollinators like bees? From apples to pumpkins to our beloved sunflowers, bees make it possible for plants to grow fruits and seeds.

👑 2. Every hive has a queen!

A queen bee can lay up to 2,000 eggs a day. She’s the mother of the whole hive, and her job is to keep the colony growing strong.

🚀 3. Bees are amazing flyers.

Honeybees can fly up to 15 miles per hour and visit 50–100 flowers in a single trip. Talk about busy!

🍯 4. Bees make honey as their food.

Bees store nectar from flowers and turn it into honey to eat during the winter. When you enjoy raw honey, you’re tasting the very same sweetness the bees worked so hard to make.

💃 5. Bees dance to talk to each other.

Yes—it’s true! Bees do a little wiggle dance called the “waggle dance” to tell their friends where to find the best flowers.

Why this matters for kids (and grown-ups, too)

When children learn about bees, they begin to see them not as something to fear, but as friends of the farm and garden. Bees remind us how connected everything is—from the flowers in the field, to the honey on your toast, to the fruits and veggies on your dinner table.

So the next time you spot a bee buzzing around your yard, remember: she’s just busy doing her very important job of helping the world bloom.

From our hive to your home,
[Leslee]