Energy Efficiency of Honey Production by Bees
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 31 (10) , 730-732
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1308779
Abstract
Honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) from a single hive fly an estimated 15 million km annually to collect flower nectar and pollen. About 29 kcal of food energy are collected for each 1 kcal of energy expended by the bees. When surplus honey of the hive is collected and processed for human consumption, the production system is up to 2½ times more energy efficient than the production system for sugar.Keywords
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