The real story
When a forager finds good flowers she comes home and performs a waggle dance on the honeycomb. The angle of her run, relative to straight up, shows the direction of the flowers relative to the Sun. The length of the waggle shows how far away they are. Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for decoding it.
A summer worker lives about six weeks and works her way up from cleaning cells to nursing larvae to guarding the entrance before she ever leaves to forage. All that work adds up to about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her whole life.
