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.