a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single collecting trip, a worker will ...
The bees also travel miles away in their search for nectar, which they collect in their stomachs and bring back to make honey. The bees, which are bred to be docile, do little to make their ...
Wasps collect pulp to smooth into hexagonal paper cells (similar to the inside of a honey bee nest) where the defenseless larvae will grow. They usually collect this pulp from untreated wood—the ...