Bee Facts: Did you know?
Honey and it's amazing characteristics.
-- A Honey Bee's hive is the most sterile natural environment in the wild world of nature. Honey naturally has the anti-bacterial agent hydrogen peroxide as part of it's chemistry. The bees excrete a natural enzyme, glucose oxidase into the honey as they are creating it which catalyzes with oxygen and glucose sugars to produce a percentage of hydrogen peroxide in all honey.
- - The shelf life of Honey is almost indefinite. Honey retrieved from ancient Egyptian pyramids has been reported by scientists as being completely edible.
- - The shelf life of Honey is almost indefinite. Honey retrieved from ancient Egyptian pyramids has been reported by scientists as being completely edible.
Her Majesty..The honey bee queen.
- A healthy queen bee typically lays around 1,200 fertilized eggs daily although in optimal conditions can lay upwards of 2,300 daily.
Did you know?
- 30% of all food that you eat has somehow been impacted and enhanced either directly or indirectly by the Honey Bee.
- Bees are important pollinators, making more than 46,430 foraging trips per bee for each 2.2 pounds of honey that they produce
- Bees are important pollinators, making more than 46,430 foraging trips per bee for each 2.2 pounds of honey that they produce