>My understanding is that one cell of pollen and one cell of honey are necessary to make one bee. If that's wrong, and someone knows, I am sure I will be corrected.
The general rule of thumb is a frame of honey and a frame of pollen and a frame's worth of water to raise a frames worth of bees. I guess that comes to a cell of pollen and a cell of honey and a cell's worth of water to raise one bee...