The Power of working together as A Team

The more I have learned about bees, the more intrigued I’ve become. It is estimated that a bee must visit two million flowers and fly somewhere around 55,000 miles to produce a single pound of honey.

They accomplish this by cruising at about 15 miles per hour. Researchers estimate that one bee can fly around the entire world on the energy it gets from just one ounce of honey— talk about efficiency! By far one of the most interesting facts about bees is that although a single worker bee only produces about 1/12th a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime, an entire colony of bees produces anywhere from 60 to 100 pounds of honey per year.

This is the epitome of teamwork, and it highlights the old saying, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” The colony of bees working together as a team accomplishes significantly more than a thousand individual bees would flying around and working all by themselves.