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Q: How much honey is consumed by bees to produce one pound of beeswax?
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How many pound of honey can bee produce?

i dont no


How many miles does a bee travel to get one pound of honey?

A single bee doesn't live long enough to produce one pound of honey.


What is the ignition temperature of beeswax wax?

Beeswax softens at 90 deg F (32 C) and melts between 143 and 151 deg. F (62-66 C). The flashpoint (temperature at which beeswax flares up and burns fiercely) is 490-525 deg F (254-274 C)Beeswax is very stable. Samples thousands of years old are nearly identical with new wax.Beeswax does not oxidize and it is not affected by mildew.Beeswax is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, combined into about 300 different long chain molecules.The aroma of beeswax is created by 48 hydrocarbon compounds.Of 100 volatile constituents in beeswax, only 41 have been identified.Although beeswax has been traded for thousands of years, there are no formal grades or standards for the product in the USA or anywhere else.When the bees make one pound of beeswax into comb, it will hold 22 pounds of honey.About one pound of cappings beeswax is produced for every 54 pounds of extracted honey.Young worker bees secrete pure white droplets of wax called "scales." One pound of beeswax contains approximately 800,000 scales.Bees must consume eight to ten pounds of honey to produce one pound of beeswax.The oldest known notebooks used sheets of beeswax for pages. Recovered from ancient Mediterranean shipwrecks, stylus marks pressed in the wax pages can still be read after centuries on the sea floor.


What bee must work it's whole life and only make one 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.


How many oz in a pound of honey?

16 ounces in a pound of honey


How many cups of honey in a pound?

1 cup of honey is approximately 3/4 of a pound. 1 pound of honey is approximately 1 and 1/3 cups.


Where buy beeswax in las Vegas Nevada?

I have beeswax for sale $10 per pound contact zach.waters2@gmail.com or call or text 702-239-0716.


How many fluid ounces in a pound of honey?

If you are wanting to know the measure in WEIGHT then 16oz in 1lb However, if you are wanting to know the VOLUME, then there are 10.67fl-oz in 1 pound of honey.


How many ounces of honey equal a pound?

16oz.


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.


Do honey bees make between 50 to 100 round trips to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey?

Yes


According to the National Honey Board in the US what insects have to visit two million flowers to make a pound of honey requiring them to collectively fly 55000 miles?

Honey bees.