Beeswax – Another Gift From The Hive

  What is Beeswax Beeswax is a substance produced by female worker bees. Pure beeswax consists of about 300 different compounds, not all which have been identified and analyzed. Forty-eight of these compounds have been found to contribute to the sweet aroma. Beeswax is produced by  all species of honeybees. For each volume of wax produced, worker bees must eat eight times that amount in honey. The youngest bees...

Mead – The Honey Drink

Mead – the Honey Drink What is Mead? Mead is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting a mixture of honey, water,and yeast. Honey itself contains yeast naturally, so the earliest forms of mead probably relied on the natural yeast in the honey to trigger fermentation. Mead is neither wine nor beer. Rather, it is its own unique category of alcoholic beverage, generally with an alcohol content between 10%-18%. In addition to...

The Life of the Honeybee – Video Parts One a...

This is a two part video series about the honeybee. It contains some great photography, and it explains how bees:  live together create eggs and larvae rear their young protect their hives communicate with each other collect pollen and nectar pollinate plants make honey care for the queen create swarms to split the hive and expand the colony Bees are inspiring, hard working creatures. These videos give a...