Welcome to our Bee website
Did you know that honey has been used for centuries in many countries to help fight infections and other medical uses.
This website helps you understand the world of bees and the many product they produce that can have a beneficial affect on you life and health.
You will find information on all the major types of bees and the many varieties of honey.
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Honey bees not only produce honey but also produce other foods that can help you including royal jelly, bees wax and propolis. You can read more about these amazing products in our reviews and information.
Bees and Pollination
The Honey bee is an amazing little creature and is so important in the economical welfare and productivity of the worlds plants and animals.
Honey bees Have been used for thousands of years as a main source of food and medicine in many countries.
The honey bee help to pollinate around 80% of all the food we eat and without them many of the crops we take for granted would not succeed causing sever food shortages globally.
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The Survival of the Fittest
Now that there is “frost is on the pumpkin” and everywhere else too, we wonder where the honeybees will go when the weather becomes bitter cold.
There are many types of bees and different types of bees survive winter in different ways. Most good bees and honey bees do not go anywhere because they live in hives for complete winter quarters.
Most other kinds of bees, comprising those “mean bees”, don’t make it through the winter and only their queen survives for next spring. Their queens must find a good hiding place to be able to stay alive during the bitter cold winter.
Honey bees begin to prepare for winter in September by raising a good bunch of new, healthy young honey bees called “winter bees”. These are able to store extra fat compared to “summer bees” and this capability enables them to live better through the winter.
As soon as the hard frost arrives, the honey bees form a tight cluster, hopefully in the lower part of the hive. Within the cluster, bees vibrate their muscles to generate enough heat to keep the cluster at a survival temperature of 40 to 50 degrees.
Honey bees constantly move into the cluster centre to keep warm and move to the outside to be able to feed on the stored honey. Honey bees eat to keep up their metabolism all winter long.
Bumble bees are similar to honey bees in that they are considered to be “social insects” like honey bees. This is defined as the ability to use the entire family to care for the raising of the young from the hatched egg to the emerging adult insect.
The bumble bees also collect pollen and nectar and convert it to honey and store a limited amount to feed their family during the warm weather. All worker and drone bumble bees die as soon as the temperature drops below freezing. The queen must find some sort of shelter. Perhaps she goes underground or hides within a rotting stump.
The dangerous, aggressive, whiteface hornets are the ones that build those big gray paper nests that hang on a tree limb. During winter these fragile paper structures shatter and provide no protection for the hibernating queen who must seek other shelter. The wasps make either small mud or paper nests that give their queen no winter hideout either.
The Honey bee is the only type of bee which has the capability to “plan ahead” and store away surplus pollen and capped honey as winter survival supplies. We can learn a lot from those resourceful honey bees.
In order to keep warm and cosy, Bees prefer to keep their movements in clusters. This way they are also able to move to the outside and feed themselves on the stored honey. The honey bees, specifically, stick to their hive only during winter season.
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