Sam Hartley You open a jar you have had for a few months and the honey has turned thick, cloudy, and grainy. It looks like it has gone bad. It has not. Crystallization is a natural process that happens to almost all real honey, and crystallized honey is still perfectly good to eat. In fact, honey that … Read more
# Queen, Worker, and Drone: The Three Castes of a Bee Colony A honey bee colony contains three kinds of bee: one queen, tens of thousands of workers, and, in the warm months, a few hundred drones. That much most people know. What surprises them is how the roles actually divide up. The queen is … Read more
# The Bee Life Cycle: From Egg to Adult, and How Long Bees Live Two questions about bees come up more than any others, and they turn out to be the same story told from two ends. How does a bee develop from an egg into the insect you see on a flower, and how … Read more
Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure. # Types of Honey: Varieties, Colors, and How to Read the Label Types of honey means several different things at … Read more
Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure. # Does Honey Go Bad? Shelf Life, Crystallization, and Storage There is a jar at the back of most kitchen … Read more
Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure. # How to Harvest Honey: When It Is Ready and How to Get It Out The harvest is the part … Read more
# Bee Behavior Explained: Bearding, Washboarding, Dancing, and Sleep You walk out to the hive on a warm evening and something is going on that you have never seen before. A curtain of bees hanging off the front. Or hundreds of them rocking back and forth on the outside wall in unison, like they are … Read more
# Bee Anatomy: How Many Eyes, Wings, and Legs Does a Bee Have? The questions people actually ask about bees turn out to be counting questions. How many eyes, how many wings, how many legs. They sound like trivia until you find out the answers, and then each one opens onto something genuinely odd about … Read more
Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure. # How to Make Beeswax Candles (and What They Actually Do) If you keep bees, sooner or later you end … Read more
# How Do Bees Make Honey? The Full Process, Step by Step Most answers to this question stop at “bees collect nectar from flowers and turn it into honey,” which is true and explains almost nothing. It skips the part where a bee carries the nectar in a stomach she does not digest with, the … Read more