How many flowers does a bee visit?
A bee visits around 100 flowers per foraging flight, with a maximum speed of up to 30 kilometres per hour. With ten foraging flights per day, this equates to 1,000 flowers. With a maximum of 40 flights per day, however, considerably more is possible.
A honey bee must visit 200 flowers to make a drop of honey. Each honeybee makes only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. To make one pound of honey honeybees must make 2,000,000 visits to various flowers. Over the year the queen will produce between 100,000 and 200,000 bees.
When a bee collects nectar and pollen from the flower of a plant, some pollen from the stamens—the male reproductive organ of the flower—sticks to the hairs of her body. When she visits the next flower, some of this pollen is rubbed off onto the stigma, or tip of the pistil—the female reproductive organ of the flower.
22,700 trips are required to fill a single jar of honey.
Over the year the queen will produce between 100,000 and 200,000 bees that will each spend between 10 and 20 days collecting nectar. At its most productive a single colony of bees could theoretically produce around 800 kg of honey, that's almost a tonne!
Bees leave the hive 15 times per day and visit around 100 flowers each time – that's 1,500 flowers a day! Bees can collect up to 4-5 pounds of nectar each day. 1 lb of honey = visiting two million flowers and flying 55,000 miles. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th tsp of honey in her lifetime.
In a single foraging trip, a honeybee will visit around 100 flowers, and she (all worker bees are female) will make around 10 to 15 trips in a day. So that's at least 1,000 flowers a day, and this is a conservative estimate – it's said that a honeybee might visit up to 5,000 flowers on a productive day.
They draw the nectar from the flowers through their long, tube-like tongues. The nectar mixes with proteins and enzymes in the honey bees stomach and is converted into honey. Later the bees store the honey in the beehive in hexagonal cells made of bee – wax called honeycombs.
3 Daunting Strength and Endurance. Ants are renowned for being able to carry 50 times their own weight, which is impressive until you realize that bees can easily tote 122 times their own weight. Oh, and they can fly, too.
Honey bees must gather nectar from two million flowers to make one pound of honey. One bee would therefore have to fly around 90,000 miles - three times around the globe - to make one pound of honey. The average honey bee will actually make only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
Bees like flowers because they feed on their nectar and pollen. The nectar is used by bees as food and an energy source to get to and from their home. The pollen they also pick up from flowers are used to feed larva (baby bees) in the hive. Bees need flowers and flowers need bees.
Do bees visit all flowers?
Honeybees do not randomly visit every flower until they find one from which they can harvest. They will continue to work whatever flower they started on that day until it is exhausted, maximizing their efficiencies in nectar collection.
Flowers that attract bees provide abundant nectar and pollen, the only sources of carbohydrates and protein in a bee's diet. While some bees, called “generalists,” aren't picky about the type of flower, others are “specialists” and need pollen from particular plants.
No, bees do not pee. Instead, they have another type of system which releases ammonia and uric acid through organs known as Malpighian tubes.
A bee can fertilize plants 10 times each time they have pollen, and there is a short wait time between pollinating each plant. Afterward, the bee flies back into its hive/nest and makes honey. It takes about 2 minutes for the bee to do this. That increases the amount of honey in a hive/nest by 1.
It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make just one teaspoon of honey. Field bees visit 50 to 100 flowers during each trip. Honey bees fly 12 and 15 miles per hour. Honey bees flap their wings 12,000 times per minute.
A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. A hive of bees will fly 40,000 miles, more than once around the earth, to collect 1 pound of honey.
- Bees have 5 eyes.
- Bees are insects, so they have 6 legs.
- Male bees in the hive are called drones.
- Bees fly about 20 mph.
- Female bees in the hive (except the queen) are called worker bees.
- Number of eggs laid by queen: 2,000 per day is the high.
- Losing its stinger will cause a bee to die.
