Between them the bees will make between 25 and 30 thousand foraging trips to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey, and in the process they will visit something in the order of two million flowers.
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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.
[1] It has been estimated that a honey bee must visit 2 million flowers to make 0.5 kilogram, or 1.1 pound, of honey. [2] There are 1,000 grams in 1 kg. So a honey bee must visit 4,000 flowers to make 1 g.
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.
bees need to visit 2 million flowers to make that pound of honey
A honey bee - but as it only lives for six weeks and only collects nectar for three of those weeks - its highly unlikely that it could produce a pound of honey in that time.
A single bee doesn't live long enough to produce one pound of honey.
16 ounces in a pound of honey
Two million is the number of flowers whose nectars yield one pound (0.45 kilograms) of honey. Bees visit flowers deliberately because of nectar and intentionally or non-intentionally because of pollen grains. Nectar will serve as an immediately energizing beverage for the collector and for a subsequently refreshing drink whose regurgitation shares the nutrients with non-foraging colony members and whose transformation through apian digestive enzymes turns out honey.
In its lifetime a honeybee will collect enough nectar to make one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey, so around 12 honeybees.The average honey bee produces about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
1 cup of honey is approximately 3/4 of a pound. 1 pound of honey is approximately 1 and 1/3 cups.
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