Hezzy's Honeycomb Hangout
Numbers 14:8 - Hebrews 11:16
Welcome to Hezzy's Hive!
The honeybee visits flowers to
gather nectar to take back to the hive. A bee can gather from as many as 2 million flowers just to make 1lb of honey!
A Day in the Life of a Honeybee
It takes 2 million flowers to make 1 jar of honey.
A hive of bees fly 55,000 miles to make 1 jar of honey.
An average worker bee makes 1/12 tsp. of honey in her life.
All worker bees are female.
Bees communicate to one another by dancing, which can be understood in complete darkness.
A queen bee can lay up to 3000 eggs in one day - that's 175-200 thousand annually.
One hive may hold up to 80,000 bees - one queen, a few hundred drone (males), and the rest workers.
When Alexander the Great died, he was carried back to Greece in a golden coffin filled with honey.
One gallon of honey equals the combined flight distance of going to the moon and back.
Bees have a magnetic band around their brains to help them navigate.
The healing use of the products from a honeybee hive is called Apitherapy
In the process, the honeybee helps pollinate the flowers. When getting the nectar it rubs against the stamen which produces a sticky powder called "pollen". When the honeybee flies up to the stigma (the female part of the plant) on that or another flower, the flower pollinates. This produces new seeds for more flowers.
The pollen that sticks to the worker bee is carried on her hind legs. It sticks on her like big globs of sugary candy! Yuk!
Once she collects the nectar from the flower, it's back to the hive.
The honeybee hive is like an airport, a factory, and a neighborhood all rolled up into one!
Once they're full of honey, the worker bees come in for a landing at the hive's entrance.
They then head inside and begin storing and processing the nectar they just collected.
Inside the hive is a busy bunch of bees!
The worker honey bees do all sorts of different jobs and work very hard together to take care of the nectar and make it into honey.
The workers also help each other out when they're dirty, sick, hurt, and even hungry.
They also keep the hive clean and nurse young baby bees called larva. The babies are all rolled up inside the individual comb cells. The worker bees (which are all female) help take care of all the infant bees in the hive. A strong hive can have some 70,000 worker bees! Imagine having that many baby sitters!
The beekeeper helps the bees a little through the year, but they are pretty self sufficient on their own.
The honey is stored on comb which is held in wooden frames, in modern hives. The beekeeper checks each frame and, when the time comes, removes the bees from the frames and takes the honey to packaged and enjoyed!
(The beekeeper always leaves the bottom two "supers", or boxes, for the bees, since they store honey to eat through the winter in these.
Once winter comes, it takes about 40 pounds of honey for a colony to eat in order to make it through till spring.
The Different Honey Bees
"Hey Everyone,
welcome to MY Honeycomb Hangout!"
Here you can check out some cool stuff like tasty honey treats, games, and learn all about the Amazing Honeybee!
*Don't forget to check out our Amazing Honey Facts to learn just how great honey really is for you!
Hezzy the Honeybee
Hezzy is nicknamed after king Hezekiah in the Bible. You can learn more about this faithful man of God in "2nd Chronicles".
