Extra Raw

A honeybee visits between 50 and 100 flowers to gather a single load of nectar, which fills its honey stomach

Nectar is about 80% water. Through a process of regurgitation and fanning by hive bees, this is evaporated down until the final product (honey) is only about 18% water. It takes roughly 4-5 loads of nectar to produce one load’s worth of honey

a single forager bee would need to make about 40 trips to the flowers—visiting thousands of blossoms—to gather the raw nectar required to produce the honey for just one single cell.