During its scarce 50 days of life, each worker bee travels approximately 40 kilometers , in the nearly two hundred thousand flights that it carries out, at an average speed of 22 km / h. In his constant expeditions, he visits some 7,200 flowers to make 5 grams of honey.
That means that, to gather a kilo of this delicious and nutritious nectar, 1,440,000 flowers and the collaboration of 200 workers are needed . It is not an excessive task, if one takes into account that between 30,000 and 60,000 individuals usually live in a hive, since the queen can lay 3,000 eggs in a single day.
The annual activity of the honey bees of the same colony reaches an average production of between 20 and 30 kilos of honey . The product made from the nectar of the flowers can be monofloral, if it is a single flower variety – orange blossom, rosemary, lavender – or multifloral, of several species.
Honey from bees was used in ancient Egypt and Greece to embalm the dead, since this product contains bactericidal substances and preserves the juices of plants, roots, flowers, fruits and even meat from rotting. . In turn, bee venom is 500,000 times stronger than any known antibiotic.
