Wild bee species critical to pollination on the decline

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https://www.apnews.com/f768748b36c648e49c14b0366fdec7e8

That is a problem.

[namelusParticipant]

I do my part and let a few swarms go each year… mostly not by choice lol… if bees die..we are in for extinction 22,700 visits for lb honey

Calculation:
Distance flown to collect one pound of honey
3 km = 17 mg honey
3,000 km = 17 g honey
80,117 km = 454 g honey
50,000 miles per pound of honey (80,000 Km per pound)
176,000 km per kilo of honey

Number of flowers visited to make one pound of honey
100 flowers= 17 mg honey
100,000 flowers= 17 g honey
2,670,588 flowers = 454 g honey
over 2.6 million flowers visited for one pound of honey
over 5.7 million flowers visited for one kilo of honey

Diameter of earth = 12,714 km
Circumference = pi * 12,714 km = 39,942 km (25K miles)
Distance flown by a bee to collect one pound of honey = 2 circumferences

 

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