Diary of a Dying Nation (@DiaryofaDyingNation)

#Bees Over its whole short life a single honeybee makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey, so the honey in one jar represents the entire life's work of hundreds of bees Over its whole short life a single honeybee makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey, so the honey in one jar represents the entire life's work of hundreds of bees What we consume in seconds required hundreds of bees to sacrifice their entire working lives. ere is a number that might make you next time you are pouring honey over your toast: one worker honeybee, across her entire life, makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon. Not a jar. Not a spoonful. A twelfth of one teaspoon. Of course, that figure is an educated average, not a measurement. As beekeeper Charlotte Anderson notes, “There is no way to measure the amount of honey made by any single bee.” You can’t tag one insect and total her personal contribution to the hive’s stored honey. The number is a rule-of-thumb estimate, and it shifts with weather, nectar, season and colony conditions. I’d treat it as a useful ballpark, not a stopwatch reading. A life measured in nectar flights READ THE@ https://share.google/gg9YcsblzAvwQqP6K