Food & Drink

How many individual flowers must honeybees visit to gather enough nectar for 1 kg of honey?

Answer

4,400,000 flowers

A single worker bee produces only about one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her entire lifetime, so every jar represents the combined life's work of hundreds of bees.

Source: National Honey Board (2 million flowers per pound)

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