Foragers work hard to make a pound of honey
When we add a teaspoon or two of honey to our hot cup of tea, we rarely stop to think of how much effort it took a poor worker bee to produce it. So, today, we’ll tell you a bit about it.
Foragers must collect nectar from about 2 million flowers to make a single pound of honey, which equals many work days. If learning this mind-blowing fact isn’t enough to make you value these little insects, we don’t know what would!