Power of the Honeybee and that's no beeswax!

We went to Howell Farms in Hopewell for the Up Close with Bee's

Have you ever really thought about how powerful a Honeybee is from an economic perspective? I HONESTLY can say NO to my own question.

Well, it’s true… not only is Honey used as a sweetener in syrups, candies, medicines, and pastries, but, Beeswax is used to make candles, floor waxes, lipsticks, polishes, and ointments... WAIT THAT'S NOT ALL...in addition to producing Goods, these busy little bees provide services to the Farm Industry, many farmers and fruit growers rent hives of honeybees during the flowering season to improve pollination. (Just think of me at the next Trivia game when you can answer that one!)

I know this is TMI on Honeybees, but I could not help myself, the Honeybee is this amazing, brilliant little creature with big bodies and little wings and they dance!
But thats not all...

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DID YOU KNOW…

Honeybees would make great sales people, they diligently visit as many as 1,000 flowers a day!

They share with their Bee friends before they give up their nectar to the colony.

Pollen, which is the Honeybees food, sticks to the hair on their legs and is used for dinner… after a 1,000 flowers they must feast!

They do the Waggle Dance! Scouts fly around and scope the area for good nectar or pollen, when they find the goods, the Scout comes back does the Waggle Dance by flying in a figure eight and wiggling it's stinger, how cute!

Sampling, get this, a Scout may be asked for samples from the other Bees before they decide to leave... I never really thought about a Bee having this kind of intelligence. This leaves me to say "Never understimate the power of something as small as a Honeybee!"

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To prove my findings on Honeybee's just visit these resources :)
How Bees Work

American Bee Keeping Association