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Miss Bee Haven Fun facts about bees
Did you know that honey never spoils? Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible! Ayurvedic medicine, honey is used to treat digestive issues, and in ancient Egypt, it was used to treat wounds. Bees are essential for growing many of our foods, they pollinate about one-third of the food we eat.
Bees produce a tiny amount of honey in their lifetime. A single worker bee produces only about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her entire life, but together they make a lot! Bees communicate through dancing. They perform a “waggle dance” to tell other bees in their hives where to find the best flowers and water source.
I began my beekeeping journey some years back as a hobby and a way to help the dwindling number of honey bees in the Western hemisphere. From a young age I can remember having a curiosity for honey bees and a lack of fear for them. As I would encourage any honey bee I could to land on me and chat a while! But I never thought much about becoming a beekeeper, I had always heard how it was so much work, you have to do this, do that, feed sugar constantly, inspect the hive(s) every week, on and on and on. But then it occurred to me one day, bees have been around for 100’s of millions of years, WITHOUT our “help”, so why are we doing all this work? I won’t get into that as it can be a touchy subject for most modern beekeepers, but I will say what I found was you don’t HAVE to do all that work. You can keep bees in a much more natural way that does not require feeding sugar or weekly inspections. That really perked my interest! So I studied books, watched 100’s of hours of videos on keeping bees naturally and I knew this was the way for me. So I started my first year with one hive and immediately fell in love with the sounds, smells, and sights of honey bees in our apiary.
We do not feed our bees sugar as a means to boost honey production. All the honey we gather comes from pure nectar gathered from native plants in our area and is surplus honey the bees will not need, harvested once per year in late fall as we perform the last of our two annual inspections in preparation for winter. That’s right! Two full inspections, the first in the spring to see how the bees faired over the winter and the second in the fall just before the first freeze. That’s it, no more, no less! Bees know what they are doing and certainly don’t need humans to tell them how to do what they’ve done for millions of years. Some may even say the modern decline of the honey bee is because of too much human intervention and treating bees like livestock, spreading disease from one continent to another. So we employ a more natural approach and do our best to only provide our bees with a safe home, let nature take care of the rest and enjoy a little honey here and there!
Benefits of Honey
Honey contains antioxidants that may support brain health and improve memory. Honey has natural healing properties; it can help soothe sore throats and even speed up the healing of wounds and burns due to its antibacterial qualities. Honey can be a natural energy booster. It provides a quick source of energy because it’s packed with natural sugars. In all our baking, can goods, and drinks. Instead of using sugar, we use honey. Honey and can be used as a natural preservative. Because of its antibacterial properties, honey has been used to preserve fruits and other foods for centuries. A spoonful of honey before bed can promote relaxation and better sleep by raising insulin slightly and allowing tryptophan to enter the brain. Consuming honey is believed by some to help build immunity to pollen and reduce allergy symptoms.
Benefits of Beeswax
Beeswax has skin-softening properties and can help reduce signs of aging and enhances skin elasticity. Beeswax forms a protective barrier on the skin’s surface, protecting your skin from environmental irritants and harsh weather. Beeswax is anti-allergenic, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial and germicidal while being amazing for eczema for Babies, Children, and Adults.
Did you know that some bees can recognize human faces? Studies have shown that honeybees can remember and recognize human faces, much like they remember different flowers. This we know for sure! My husband handles our bees like any other family pet. He spends time with them, maintains their hives, protects them from pests, they are an addition to our family. So, if you ask me how many children we have, well, we have ten beehives and 10,000 + bees in each hive!
Bees are colorblind to red, Bees can see ultraviolet light, which humans can’t, but they can’t see the color red. Instead, they see it as black. They have a built-in GPS. They use the position of the sun, the earth’s magnetic field, and their own memories of landmarks to navigate and find their way back to the hive. Bees travel up to five miles a day to and from their hive
These are only a few reasons why our honeybees are unique and special to us.
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