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“Busy as a Bee”—How Busy?
How much do bees have to work to provide the beekeeper with a single kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of honey? A circular put out by the German Apiarist Society, Inc., gives us the answer. In one hour, it says, a bee can pollinate about 700 blossoms. To produce one kilogram of honey, however, requires that the bees fly to more than seven million blossoms! That means that a single bee—if it would live that long—would need almost 10,000 “flying hours,” or some 15 months, to gather one kilogram of honey. The bee would have to fly a distance of 240,000 kilometers (150,000 mi.), equal to about six times around the earth at the equator.
