How many bees to make a tablespoon of honey?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The entire life's work of a honey bee amounts to about 1/12 teaspoon of honey.
To make 1 lb (454 grams) of honey bees have to visit about two million flowers and collect eight to ten pounds of nectar. To do this the bees would have flown a total of about 55,000 miles (88,000 kilometres).

Answer 3

In its lifetime a bee makes about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. A teaspoon is 5 ml, and a tablespoon is 15 ml (three teaspoons to a tablespoon), so it takes 36 bees to make a tablespoon of honey.

Answer 4

One gallon of honey weighs 12 pounds. It is estimated that it would take the lifetime of 560 worker bees to make a pound of honey (bees produce about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime). Thus, it would take 6,720 bees to produce a gallon.

Another answer: Bees don't make honey, Chuck Norris makes honey and puts it in beehives for safe keeping.

Answer 5

It takes about 12 bees their entire lifetime to produce a single tablespoon of honey. Bees collect nectar from flowers, bring it back to the hive, and then fan it with their wings to evaporate the water content, turning it into honey.

Answer 6

It takes the entire life's work of about twelve bees to make one teaspoon of honey.

Answer 7

2000 flowers a bee has to visit to make a table spoon of honey