honey bees provide pollination services around the...
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Honey Report, March 2017 NASS, USDA - http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/Hone/Hone-03-22-2017.pdf Contributors: Jessica Sullivan, Mary Bammer
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Each colony of European honey bees
usually has about 20,000 worker
bees that are all sisters
24,001 - 34,000
14,001 - 24,000
4,001 - 14,000
1,001 - 4,000
1 - 1,000
COLONIES PER COUNTY
Honey bees communicate the
location and quality of nectar and pollen
sources to other bees through “dancing”
Each Florida honey bee
colony makes 50 lbs of honey per
hive per year
10.7 million pounds
of honey produced in Florida yearly
$26.2 million total production value
HONEY BEES PROVIDE POLLINATION SERVICES AROUND
THE U.S. FOR CROPS LIKE BLUEBERRY, WATERMELON, CITRUS, AND ALMOND.
FLORIDA ALONE HAS 4,400 BEEKEEPERS WHO MANAGE 515,000 EUROPEAN
HONEY BEE COLONIES.