It will vary according to a number of factors: the number of bees; the state of health of the bees; the availability of nectar-producing flowers; how good the weather is during the summer, and so on.
Given all these factors and a reasonable year, it is possible for one hive to produce around 50 pounds of honey.
Honey combs may be harvested once the cells have been capped with wax. Before this, the bees consider there is too much water in the honey, so it is not ready.
Many beekeepers will generally do this once a year, at the end of summer so the combs can all be extracted at the same time. If the beekeeper thinks the bees have been foraging from a plant such as oil seed rape (canola), where the honey crystalizes very quickly, he will take what honey is available soon after the flowers are finished, otherwise there is a risk of it crystalizing in the comb, making it very difficult to extract.
That depends upon a lot of factors, but I can say: 1) its typically a boom or bust business, and 2) it has been getting tougher to make money at it every year for the last few decades, reaching a nadir in early 2007 when colony collapse disorder devastated many businesses. Certainly no-one I've heard of is getting rich keeping bees.
About one teaspoonful.
A honey bee collects about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime
It takes about 12 bees their entire lifetime to produce a single tablespoon of honey. Bees collect nectar from flowers, bring it back to the hive, and then fan it with their wings to evaporate the water content, turning it into honey.
a normal honey bee a bee
The common name for the Killer Bee is the Africanized Honey Bee.
About one teaspoonful.
In its lifetime, the average honey bee worker produces about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
According to the Honey Association, the average honey bee willactually make only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
In its lifetime, the average honey bee worker produces about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
A honey bee collects about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime
A honey bee only lives for 6 weeks so it probably can only produce a teaspoonful of honey in its life.
A bee and a flower = Honey!
Only about one twelfth of a teaspoon so you can see it's not a lot, I bet you weren't expecting that. But if you think of the whole hive, they can make about 30 jars in a lifespan!
bee+flower=honey :)
bee+flower=honey :)
In its lifetime, a honey bee only collects enough nectar to make about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. In order to collect one kilo of honey the bees would have had to have flown the equivalent of nearly 200,000 kilometres while foraging.
It takes about 12 bees their entire lifetime to produce a single tablespoon of honey. Bees collect nectar from flowers, bring it back to the hive, and then fan it with their wings to evaporate the water content, turning it into honey.