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How many flowers will a bee need to collect nectar from to make one-tablespoon of honey?
Sixty-two thousand five hundred (62,500) is the number of flowers from which a bee must collect nectar in order to make one tablespoon of honey. Researchers offer 2 million as the floral number whose nectar yields one pound (32 tablespoons) of honey. It tends to take 768 worker bees flying over 55,000 miles to make one pound of honey and therefore 24 to yield one tablespoon.
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How do the bees do honey?
Bees collect nectar from flowers and then produce honey.
What is biological name for honey?
The biological name for honey is nectar. Honey is made by bees from the nectar they collect from flowers.
What does the flowers benefit the honey bees on?
The flowers carry nectar, so when the bees collect the nectar they eat it. That helps produce the honey. The nectar in the flowers is the bees food source. Without flowers, the bees would all die out.
Can man take honey from flowers?
No, and neither can bees. Bees collect nectar from flowers and add enzymes to make honey.
What are the animals drinks honey from the flowers?
Flowers don't have honey. I think your talking about bees that collect pollen and nectar from flowers and then create honey back at their hives
Is honey from flowers?
Honey is mostly made from nectar, a sugary liquid which bees collect from flowers. Sometimes bees will collect a substance called honeydew, which is sugar-rich sticky substance, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.
Does honey come from the bee's mouth or the bee's butt?
Honey is made by bees from nectar, which they collect from flowers.
Does honey come from a plant?
Bees collect nectar from flowers, which they then make honey from. So, in short, the answer is yes.
What do honeybees collect?
If you might have noticed a recent answer, which was pollen, that answer is wrong. Bees collect nectar, which they turn into honey. pollen sticks to their legs and falls onto other flowers. this is called pollination.
How does a bee get its food?
Bees eat nectar and pollen that they collect off of the flowers. Honey bees will even eat the honey that they make from the pollen that they collect.
If a bee visits 5000 flowers how much honey will it produce?
Bees visit an average of around two million flowers to collect the nectar for a pound (454 grams) of honey. Based on this if a bee visits 5,000 flowers it will collect enough nectar to make 1.135 grams (1/25th of an ounce) of honey.
Where do bees find food?
Honey bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers and other plants.
