Secrets of the Bees

Create a Bee & Bee (Bed & Breakfast for bees / Bee hotel). When you get to their site, you have a few options: Join their Great Sunflower Project Program where you plant a Lemon Queen variety of sunflower and help identify the effects of pesticides on pollinators. In holidays, get your kids to create a bee project at home, with optional visits to local bee hives that may be running holiday programmes for kids. If you are in the US, why not join Bee Safe and establish a BEE-SAFE pollinator garden in your community.

This makes it a perfect plant for bees to forage on. That's good news for beekeepers and their bees. Some of these include the following: A 1999 report in Bee World, wrote how borage is so attractive to bees that it's become a popular plant for people to grow as a way to invite bees into their gardens. In this case, the beekeepers get lots of honey and the farmers get increased yields because the bees pollinate their crop.

The conclusion is that bee propolis is effective at fighting the herpes simplex type-1 virus. Treating Herpes with propolis is said to be most effective with a five percent solution of the propolis taken at least once daily. Dosage of propolis oral supplements ranges from 25mg to 500mg taken from once to several times daily. The scientific report below determined that propolis samples have important antiviral effects compared with acyclovir.

There's a good chance that a lot of what you read here will be an eye-opener into the world of these fascinating insects. On average, a single honey bee will only ever make 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime. If a bee were to fly around the world, it would need just one ounce of honey to fuel the trip. A honey bee will visit somewhere between 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.