Raw Bee Honey Products And Beekeeping
The glands of worker bees produce bee wax, which they need to build the honeycomb and help to seal the top of honey-filled cells. Beeswax contains over 300 natural compounds, among which the most component is fatty-acid esters. Fresh wax is nearly pure white, whereas later it turns a yellowish-brown color. It has a pleasing scent like honey, propolis, and pollen.
The cosmetics industry loves it.
Wax is usually added to creams because it makes skin soft and supple and has antibiotic properties. The chewing of capping, i.e. the wax covering over honey, is documented, while thermal therapies using beeswax, which is typically carried taken straight after a massage or physiotherapy, also are becoming popular lately.
BEEKEEPING
RAW HONEY
Bees are interested in plants that produce nectar and pollen. Nectar may be a sweet substance that draws bees, which successively pollinate plants in order that they can develop seeds and propagate their species. Bees eat pollen in their diet.
”Bees are a symbol of well-functioning ecosystems.”
IMPORTANCE OF HONEY PLANTS
Due to modern farming practices and deforestation, and since flowering meadows are disappearing and monocultures are starting to prevail, there are fewer and fewer food sources for bees, especially in summer.
Important plants in nature for bees are:-
• spring vegetation, like primroses, saffron, hazel, snowdrops, willow, wild cherry, hellebore, heather, etc.
• meadow flowers.
• fruit trees;
• maple, chestnut
• woodland undergrowth
