Honey maths

Honey is made from nectar. Honeybees collect it from flowers, bring it home and slowly turn it into honey by adding enzymes and fanning away water. It takes a surprising amount of work. Choose a jar size to see the numbers.

Where do these numbers come from?

Beekeeping organisations often quote that honeybees visit around two million flowers and fly about 55,000 miles (roughly 88,000 km) to make one pound of honey, and that a single worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life. These are rounded estimates meant to show the scale of the work – real colonies vary a lot.