Honey bees will tap about 5.7 million flowers and fly 176,000km to make one kg of honey. According to the Canadian Honey Council Calculation of honey production by one honey bee Many facts are taken for granted and the proof is often lost in the mists of time. It may seem hard to believe that a honey bee flies around the world twice for one pound of honey but the numbers back up this assertion. The valuesused for the calculation are averages and the numbers are rounded. To discover how many flowers and how far a honey bee flies to gather a pound of honey, we need to know: How many flowers a bee visits to gather one load of nectar? C.R. Ribbands (1949) determined that one bee can visit several hundred flowers for a load of sweet clover and up to 1,110-1,446 for a load of Limnanthes nectar. Since the number will vary by size of the flower and quantity of nectar secreted, we will assume a honey bee taps fewer flowers than she visits and we have used a minimum of 100 flowe