FERA the government dept that looks after the UKs bees - has a great website for beekeepers called beebase - take a look and if you are a beekeeper you can register your hives so the inspector knows where to call. The inspectors I have met have been useful in giving advice and making sure all is well.

 https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/index.cfm

HONEY TRIVIA 

• How many flowers must honey bees tap to make one pound of honey? - Two million.
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• How many flowers does a honey bee have to visit to gather a load of pollen? - 1500 flowers.
• How far does a hive of bees fly to bring you one pound of honey? - Over 55,000 miles
• How large an area does a honey bee have to cover to collect a load of pollen? -Approximately 12 square miles.
• How much honey does the average worker honey bee make in her lifetime? - 
  1/12 teaspoon.
• How heavy is a load of pollen? - Approximately 10 mg.
• How fast does a honey bee fly? - About 15 miles per hour
• How much honey would it take to fuel a bee's flight around the world? - About one ounce.
• How long does a worker honey bee live? - Approximately 42-45 days in peak season.
• Bee pollen is high in DNA & RNA
• How long have bees been producing honey from flowering plants? - 10-20 million years.
• Honey bees make flakes of wax no larger than a pin head. It takes 500,000 flakes of wax to make one pound of bees wax.
• How many kilograms of honey do bees have to consume to make one kilogram of bees wax? - Eighteen kilograms of honey, almost 40 lbs. of honey.
• How many wings does a honey bee have? - Four