That means filling a 16-ounce jar with honey takes 1,152 bees. Read more: Hazelnut And Fig Baked Brie Recipe A flurry of action begins as soon as a worker bee leaves the hive in search of nectar.

Peter Tyson is Online Producer of NOVA. Chief sources The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies,by Thomas D. Seeley (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press ...

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 visit between 50 and 100 flowers. She will return to the hive ...

U.S. bee hive numbers increased but honey production dropped in 2024, according to a USDA report. “That’s a trend that’s been ...