Bees on a brood stripe capping honey
Before I blab about how our bees did this year , here are some mind boggling fact about bees and dear that should make you appreciate them .
— bee take to visit 2 million flowers and travel about 50,000 miles to make a pound of love .
Bees on a brood bar capping honey
— In its lifespan a bee micturate about 1/12th of a teaspoonful of dear so it takes 36 bees to make a tablespoon of beloved .
— Honey bees make little geek of wax about the size of a pin mind . It takes 500,000 oddball of wax to make one pound of bee wax .
— Bees cross-pollinate about 90 % of our intellectual nourishment crops .
— In a strong beehive there are 70,000 – 100,000 bees in a hive in the summer and their phone number go down in the winter .
— bee do not hibernate . They stay inside their hive keep a temperature of about 95 - 96 - degree at the middle of their bunch all wintertime by beating their wings to stay warm . Bees rotate from the exterior of the cluster to the inside as they get cold while the 1 on the privileged rotate to the exterior , all the while keeping the queen warm .
Our 2 hives produced over 8 lbs of harvestable dearest this year which is wonderful as we have n’t collected love in two age . We always left them with enough honey to get through winter which sometimes did n’t leave us any . With all the rainwater and peak this year , they were super busy making honey and there was plenty for all . We left lots of bars of love for them for wintertime . In our land with many droughts , plenty is not a word we apply a lot when it come to honey production . For other area in the country , this may not seem like a lot , but for us it makes us appreciate our young lady more . Oh yea , all the bees that you see outside on the blossom are girls - go fille power !
Based on the info above , our bees see 16 million flowers to make that 8 lbs ! Unbelievable ! So next time you spread that tablespoon of dear on your toast , opine about all 36 bees it took to make it and appreciate all the bee for their fantastic giving .
We ’ve put them to bed for the wintertime last month in October . We ’ve put a false wall to make their living area small so they stay warmer and straw bales around each of their hives to give them extra insulation from the breaking wind and frigid . We hope they make it through winter .
