How far does a hive of bees have to fly to produce a kilo of honey?

Total distance, all bees combined, there and back, there and back etc.
160,000 kilometres

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Someone said it more poetically

“How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower!”

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Bless the humble Bee
Written about by a toff
Some of the common folk
Just want it to Buzz Off

Queue my ‘Bee’ poem I think…

I went inside our shed
And found a bee, stone dead
What a shame it had to die
Never more to buzz and fly

No more making honey
That ends up in a tummy
Or flying around some ears
Having fun with human fears

Gone from the nest for hours
After visiting the flowers
It must have caused a buzz
Like missing family does

Lots of words in ‘bee’ were said
But I bet no ‘bzzzz’ ever lead
To the fact the bee just flew inside
Our shed and simply went and died.

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