In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 ... a mammal's soft skin, the attached venom ...

Cape Town beekeeper Gerald Reed from Gerald's Bees explains; " When bees leave their hive they know that they will be without food for a while so they store sufficient food until they can find a ...