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Bees need to collect nectar from approximately 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey. This is because bees must visit numerous flowers to gather enough nectar to produce honey. The process involves multiple trips back and forth between the hive and flowers to collect sufficient nectar for honey production. Each flower provides a small amount of nectar, so bees must visit a large number of flowers to create a pound of honey.
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Do bees need pollen to make honey?
No. Bees make honey from nectar. Although the honey may contain a small amount of pollen from the flowers from which the nectar was collected, this is accidental.Bees do collect pollen and bring it back to the hive, but this is used as food, particularly for the developing larvae.
Why do bees take flowers pollen?
Bees take pollen to make honey.
How many flowers does it take to make one kilogram of honey?
It can take around 2 million flowers to produce one kilogram of honey. Bees need to visit numerous flowers to collect enough nectar to produce honey, as they collect small amounts of nectar with each trip.
How many bees to make a tablespoon of 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.
How many pounds of honey hive produce?
There are many factors which can affect the amount of honey that can be collected from the hive, including the variety of bee, the weather patterns through the spring and summer, the amount and varieties of flowers within foraging range from the hive, and the strength of the colony.That said, the amount of honey can be as little as none, or as much as 100 pounds of honey from one hive -- and in exceptional cases much more, the record is over 500 pounds.
Is honey found in bees or flowers?
Bees make honey using nectar from flowers
Do bees make flowers die?
No, bees don't make flowers die .Bees use flowers pulp to make honey.
How many trips do honey bees take to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey?
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.
Can man take honey from flowers?
No, and neither can bees. Bees collect nectar from flowers and add enzymes to make honey.
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.
Why are butterflys important?
they r important because they give pollen to flowers for bees to make honey
Bees do what?
they collect pollen from flowers and take it to there hive to make honey
Do bees eat carrot?
No. Bees eat honey that they make from nectar of flowers.
What bees make the sweetest honey?
Only honey bees make honey and its taste will depend on the type of flowers, shrubs, trees or other vegetation that the bees have been foraging on.
Are honey bees made out of honey?
No, honey bees are insects that produce honey as a food source. Honey bees collect nectar from flowers and use it to make honey, which they store in their hives as a source of energy. Honey bees are not made out of honey.
Where did the ingredient honey come from?
From nectar of flowers. the bees make it.
Bees Stop making honey?
Bees make honey from nectar gathered from flowers. If there are no nectar-bearing flowers available, then the bees can't make honey. Nor will there be any nectar to feed on, so they will feed on their stored honey.
