Use of Honeybees in Gardens

You are probably very familiar with honeybees, how they gather nectar and produce honey. Did you know that if honeybees visit your garden, they will also help promote pollination in your plants? The flowers on your vegetable plants must be pollinated by insects such as honeybees so that the flower will eventually become a fruit. In order to make one pound of honey, honeybees must visit 2 million flowers. During one collection trip, a honeybee may visit 50 to 100 flowers. Does your garden have this many flowers in it? Can you estimate how many flowers there are in your garden?



Bees also use shapes called hexagons to store their honey in. This is a solid shape which allows for a solid hive structure.