How much work is required by the bees to produce honey?
– Worker bees will make over 154 trips for 1 teaspoon of honey. – To produce 1 pound of honey, bees fly a distance of more than 3 times around the entire world. – To produce 1 pound of honey, bees must visit over 2 million flowers. – A worker bees adult life span is approximately 45 days. – Over an entire lifespan, 1 bee will make about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
