How many flowers does a honey bee visit in a day?

Did you realize that a bee can visit up to 5,000 flowers in a single day? If you think that's amazing, consider this: to make one pound of honey, a hive of bees must travel over 55,000 miles and visit two million flowers! read more

A Worker Bee May Visit 2,000 Flowers per Day She can't carry pollen from that many flowers at once, so a worker bee will visit 50 to 100 flowers before heading home. All day long, she repeats these round-trip flights to forage, which puts a lot of wear and tear on her body. read more

The value of bees pollinating fruits, vegetables and legumes is 10 times the value of honey produced. Natural pollinators are disappearing rapidly and each year we become more dependent on honey bees for many of our daily foods. read more