Whatto! Peeps.....
- A Honey Bee can fly as far as 5 miles from the hive to search for food.
- An entire Honey Bee colony will fly a total of around 55,000 miles to make just one pound of honey.
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| Bazzzil loves it when he's buzzzzzzzzzzzzy! |
- A hive can produce as much as 60 pounds of honey in a good season with about 25 pounds more than they need to survive the winter.
- Honey Bees make honey by taking nectar from flowers and mixing it with enzymes from glands in their mouths. This is then stored in hexagonal wax honeycombs until the water content has been reduced to around 17%. Once this happens worker bees cap the combs with a wax seal until the bees need it for food, for instance in the winter time.
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| "Right so we all agree.....we'll meet up at the Old Rhodedendron for a spot of Nectar!" |
- Beekeeping has been going on for about 13,000 years, with the Egyptians particularly having developed very sophisticated means for keeping hives and harvesting honey.
- Capped honey can be kept without spoiling for many thousands of years; the current oldest known honey that is still good being found in the tombs of Pharaohs, put there over 3000 years ago and still tasty.
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| Honey is delicious in drinks instead of sugar and gives a distictive flavour all it's own |
- It would only take about one ounce of honey to fuel a honey bee for a flight around the world! (Car manufacturers please take note!).
- Two million flowers must be tapped to make just one pound of honey.
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| Engineers say Bees are built in such a way that technically....they shouldn't be able to fly |
- Smoke triggers bees to stop whatever they are doing and consume as much honey as they can as there may be a need to abandon the hive if there is a fire, but this action also induces stress and potentially ill health in the bees, so many Beekeepers now prefer to spray the hive with a light misting of water to simulate drizzle which has the same effect as making the bees return to the hive.
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| Mmmmmmmmm................Come here Honey............I think I Love You! |
- Ounce for ounce, honey is one of the healthiest things you can eat and contains many beneficiary medicinal values. It’s also antibacterial and works extremely well at getting rid of pink eye and helping to heal burns as well as soothing the pain of deep burns. It has also been shown to help allergies if you eat honey made from the area you live in, because of elements of the local pollen contained within the Honey itself.
- During it's entire lifetime, after working 16 hours a day, a worker bee will have made about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
Tallyho!
Best Wishes - Lord Noel
