Nectar to honey to wax March 11, 2009 1:32 pm 
Beekeeping, Beeswax

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Honeybee foraging on white sweet clover in Boulder, Colorado.

It takes the nectar of two million flowers to make a pound of honey. Bees have to eat eight pounds of honey to produce a single pound of beeswax. So that’s 16 million flowers that go into each pound of beeswax.

Holy cow.

The photo above was taken in 2006, a gangbusters year for clover. Each tiny blossom counts as a separate flower.


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