How many flowers do bees visit?

To make a pound of honey the bees need to visit about two million flowers, and in doing this they will fly something like 55,000 miles -- the equivalent of more than twice around the world.

2000 flowers a bee has to visit to make a table spoon of honey

green, brown, yellow, 32

green and brown

The ones closest to their hives! Bees try to be efficient and will collect from the closest source of pollen. Bee keepers are very savvy about locating their hives in such a way as to take advantage...