Gary’s Bees

03/05/2022

We got honey!!!

08/16/2021

12/03/2020

It’s estimated that there are about 2.7 million bee colonies in the U.S. today, two-thirds of which travel the country each year pollinating crops and producing honey and beeswax.

11/16/2020

The queen fertilizes each egg using stored s***m.

11/14/2020

Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.

11/11/2020

Bees are hardwired to do certain jobs. Scout bees, which search for new sources of food, are wired for adventure. Soldier bees, discovered in 2012, work as security guards their whole life. One percent of all middle-aged bees become undertakers-a genetic brain pattern compels them to remove dead bees from the hive. But most amazingly, regular honeybees-which perform multiple jobs in their lifetime-will change their brain chemistry before taking up a new gig.

11/10/2020

During chillier seasons, worker bees can live for nine months. But in the summer, they rarely last longer than six weeks—they literally work themselves to death.

10/30/2020

The Honey bee’s wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.

10/24/2020

Save Honeybees with every purchase!

10/21/2020

Save Honeybees with every purchase!

10/21/2020

Workers: these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.

10/17/2020

Bees live on stored honey and pollen all winter, and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. Larvae are fed from the stores during this season and, by spring, the hive is swarming with a new generation of bees 🐝 🐝
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