{"id":320,"date":"2020-07-10T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rawhoneynetwork.com\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2021-11-12T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:54:48","slug":"raw-honey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rawhoneynetwork.com\/raw-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Raw Honey - What 's that?<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Let’s begin with the Bees.<\/h2>

People get annoyed with flying insects. Honeybees are different though. Yes they are bugs, related to wasps, but we benefit from them immensely. Bees can be found in just about any corner of this world, with the exception of one which is Antarctica. I think you can guess why that is.<\/p>

Bees of all varieties and no matter where they are live on nectar and pollen. With today’s technological advancements you could say that pollination is possible but it would be very time consuming. Without bees, transferring those pollen grains, pollination\u00a0 would be extremely difficult. An estimate shows that without this process more than one third of our food supply could be gone because it depends on pollination that much. Think about that for a second.<\/p>

Are all bees the same? No.<\/strong><\/p>

Honeybees come in three types:<\/h3>
  1. The Queen Bee.<\/strong> Each hive has only one queen. She is the mother to all the bees in that hive as she is the only fertile member of the colony. She is busy though because she does lay about 1500 eggs per day in the spring and summer. Feature wise the queen bee is more distinguished with a longer abdomen but smaller wings. She will go out and mate with a dozen or so male bees (drones) over a three days period and then she retires into the hive to lay the eggs. Unless the colony swarms forcing her to look for a new home she will stay in the hive.<\/li>
  2. Drone Bees.<\/strong> These are the male bees and they only job they have is to mate with the queen or queens from other hives. Yes very tough job they have. If they cannot even do the one job they are set to do then they live up to 90 days which is about twice as long as the hard working worker bee.<\/li>
  3. Worker bees.<\/strong> These are the familiar bees you and I see most of the time. They make up for the biggest part of the colony population. All worker bees are lady bees an there are a lot of them because they do almost everything for the hive. They live for 45 days and from start to finish they are responsible for feeding the little newborn bees (lavrae). tending to the queen (of course), cleaning the hive, and most importantly collecting the food. They also are in charge of guarding the colony (you would think the drone could pick up the slack here) and finally they are the ones responsible for building the honeycomb. The worker bee has a stinger and it is used only as self defense to protect her self or the hive. Her stinger will get stuck in the skin and she will eventually die as the tries to tear her self away (add that sacrifice to her list of chores). Surprising to many, honeybees are very gentle and they don’t want to die any more than you want to be stung. If you try to be nice to them, they’ll always be nice to you.<\/li><\/ol>