Bee and Honey Information
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Less food miles! Food miles are the distance the food travels from point of production to point of sale. We take this from the location of the hives to where we extract and bottle the honey and then back to the shop for sale.
Our Carpenters’ Nursery honey travels about one food mile between collection, extraction, bottling and then back to Carpenter’s for sale. The honey we sell at Ushers’ Bakery travels about two food miles and at Jay's Delicatessen about five food miles. |
Rehousing a swarm into a new hive
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Interesting facts about honey bees
There is only one queen in a hive
There are around 5,000 drones (male bees) and 50,000 worker bees (female bees) in a hive at the height of summer.
It is estimated to take around a million flower visits to produce one jar of honey.
Bees are the only creatures apart from Man who are known to be able to tell another of its kind where to find food without leading it there. They do this by doing a “waggle dance” through which, by the length of movement and direction relative to the sun, the bees effectively draw a map out on the honeycomb for the other bees to read.
All honey bees will die once they sting, except for the queen bee, which is able to sting more than once, but only uses her sting to kill rival queen bees hatching in the hive.
There is only one queen in a hive
There are around 5,000 drones (male bees) and 50,000 worker bees (female bees) in a hive at the height of summer.
It is estimated to take around a million flower visits to produce one jar of honey.
Bees are the only creatures apart from Man who are known to be able to tell another of its kind where to find food without leading it there. They do this by doing a “waggle dance” through which, by the length of movement and direction relative to the sun, the bees effectively draw a map out on the honeycomb for the other bees to read.
All honey bees will die once they sting, except for the queen bee, which is able to sting more than once, but only uses her sting to kill rival queen bees hatching in the hive.