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Here are a few that I got from the National Honey Board:
How many flowers must honey bees visit to make one pound of honey? 2
million
How far does a hive of bees fly to to bring us one pound of honey?
55,000 miles
How much honey would it take to fuel a bee's flight around the world?
About 2 tablespoons (one ounce)
Wahkon
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:41:50 -0400 "Glen B. Glater" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>For our extraction day this coming Sunday, I'd like to have a leaflet
>to hand out with some handy facts about honey and bees.
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>Can people share their bee trivia with me?
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>I promise to post my compiled list.
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>Thanks!
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>Here's what I have to start:
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>Flight Speed
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>9 mph loaded
>8 mph empty
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>Nectar Collecting
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>50-80% of the flying bees are collecting nectar
>100-1,500 flower visits per load
>1-24 trips per day
>36-50 microliters per load (50 microliters = 1 eyedropper drop)
>5-150 minutes per trip
>150 lbs of honey, in mileage, equals 13 round trips to the moon.
>(150 lbs equals the average yield of two bee hives in Virginia, USA,
>per year)
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>(all of above from Adam Finkelstein [log in to unmask])
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>Thanks again!
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>--glen
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