World Bee Day: Some interesting facts about bees and honey In honor of World Bee Day on May 20, here are some interesting things you might not know about nature's hardest-working pollinators. A single bee weighs .00025 pounds. 4,000 bees together weigh only one pound. Each of our hives has 50,000 bees, weighing 12 pounds together. A single bee can produce 1 tablespoon of honey in its lifetime. 683 bees fly roughly 32,550 miles to gather 5.93 lbs of nectar from about 1,185,000 flowers in order to make one 9.5...