About your honey

A hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles to produce a pound of honey.

The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones. Some worker bees are nurse bees. Their job is to feed the larvae.

A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers during one collection flight from the hive. In order to produce 1 pound of honey, 2 million flowers must be visited. A hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles to produce a pound of honey, and one bee colony can produce 60 to 100 pounds of honey per year.

An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.