—— Discover, learn, and bee amazed!
Explore the fascinating realm of “Bees & Honey,” where we unravel the mysteries and marvels of these incredible pollinators and the liquid gold they produce. From informative articles and FAQs to a wealth of facts that illuminate the secret lives of bees, this section is your gateway to a world teeming with wonder. Be a part of this captivating journey, where the hum of bees and the richness of honey converge to unveil the wonders of nature’s most remarkable collaboration.
It is a sugar-containing substance that is excreted by plant lice, which feed on the juices of native forest trees such as spruce, oak or fir.
The “industriousness of the bees” is unbeatable. What the small, busy insects do in their short lives is remarkable:
Bees not only provide us with the ever popular, fine honey, but also take on an extremely important function for the survival of all living things on earth: the valuable pollination of plants. They are therefore also an important farm animal. In search of food, they fly from flower to flower, pollinating a large part of agricultural crops, but also wild plants. Without this pollination work, many vegetables and fruits, but also forage plants for animals would be eliminated on our menu. For this reason, nectaflor is particularly committed to bee protection, beekeeping and raising public awareness of the issue of bees.
How do collecting bees make each other aware of interesting food sources and how do they describe the path to new food sources?
The bees have their own body language for this: the round and tail dance. By means of coded “dance” movements, the bees coming home pass on the necessary information about the location of new food sources to their fellow collectors. The smell also plays an important role here: their fine body hair carries the smell and the pollen from the food source into the beehive. It is an important indicator for the collecting bees how the new feed source tastes.
A bee colony consists of a queen, around 30,000 workers and a few hundred to a thousand drones. It works as a complex, perfect organism and shows a pronounced social behavior. With the large number of individuals in a small space, each bee knows exactly when and which task it has to perform.
Honeycombs are a true masterpiece of nature and are built in the same way by all honey bees around the world. Thanks to their hexagonal, geometrically perfect, regular shape and their vertical walls, they are extremely stable and strong. The slightly inclined sides prevent the honey from escaping.
Beeswax is the term used in the wax glands of bees to produce and sweat out wax platelets that are used in the beehive as a building material for brood and honey storage.
Pollen, also called pollen, gets stuck on the bee’s fine coat when sucking nectar, where it also serves to pollinate the subsequent flowers. The bee collects the pollen as a food source by gradually collecting the individual pollen in the “pollen pants” on the hind legs.
Pollen is rich in protein and serves as food for bees and brood in the beehive. The pollen is also found in the honey and enables an exact determination of the variety or origin by the pollen analysis.
Valuable, nutrient-rich feed juice for the rearing of the larvae during the first 2-3 days of life and for the lifelong feeding of the queen bee.
Honeydew honey is created when bees primarily soak up honeydew on deciduous and coniferous trees. What is honeydew? Honeydew is a sugar-containing secretion from insect-sucking plants (lice). These insects feed on the juice from the sieve tubes of various plants and excrete unnecessary substances as so-called honeydew.
Inhibine is the general name for substances that inhibit the growth of germs. The chemical structure of inhibins is very different and complex. The inhibins also include the plant dyes (flavonoids) contained in honey.
Nectar is a high-sugar liquid that plants excrete as glandular secretions from the nectaries to attract animals. Nectar serves as food for many animals and, along with honeydew, is the raw material from which bees produce honey. If honey is predominantly obtained from nectar, it can be called blossom honey.
Propolis is a resin-like mass made by bees that is used in the beehive as a building material (sealing openings, crevices, etc.) and for the care and health of the beehive / people (inhibition of bacteria, fungi, etc.). Propolis is a type of natural antibiotic that is composed of many different, widely varying substances.
It is the entirety of the valuable, natural ingredients that make the natural product honey healthy. In addition to water and valuable, natural ingredients such as enzymes, vitamins, inhibins and minerals, honey consists of around 80% of the two important, natural types of sugar fructose (fruit sugar) and glucose (dextrose). These are particularly easily absorbed into the blood and provide quick, healthy energy.
Liquid honey can crystallize during storage. This is a normal, natural process and does not affect quality. Crystallized honey can easily be liquefied again by careful heating. To do this, the honey is placed in a warm water bath. The temperature of the water should not exceed 40 °C so that the valuable, heat-sensitive ingredients in the honey are not damaged.
The type of flower nectar or honeydew collected and the resulting quantitative ratio of the main natural sugars fructose (fruit sugar) and glucose (glucose) determine the consistency of honey and its tendency to crystallize. A honey with a high fructose content stays liquid longer (eg acacia or orange blossom honey), a honey with a high glucose content crystallizes relatively quickly and becomes creamy or solid (eg rapeseed honey).
When stored properly, honey is one of the few foods that has a virtually indefinite shelf life. However, if stored improperly or for a long time, the honey loses some of its valuable ingredients and changes color (it becomes darker). But that doesn’t mean that dark honey is automatically old honey; many types of honey are dark from the start.
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