Honey

Honey has natural preservative properties, and if stored properly, it can last for an incredibly long time. Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs thousands of years old has been reported as still edible. The expiration date on honey is often more about quality than safety.

Honey may crystallize over time, becoming thicker and grainier, but this doesn't make it unsafe to eat. You can often return crystallized honey to a liquid state by gently warming it. Simply place the honey jar in warm water or microwave it at a low power setting, stirring occasionally until it becomes liquid again.

However, if honey shows signs of mold, fermentation, or an off smell, it's best to discard it. Mold growth can occur if water is introduced into the honey, or if the honey has been diluted. Fermentation might happen if the water content of honey increases, allowing yeast to grow and produce alcohol.

In summary, as long as your honey doesn't show any signs of spoilage, it should be safe to eat even if it has passed its expiration date. Always store honey in a cool, dry place, and keep the lid tightly closed to prevent moisture and contaminants from entering.

Generally not. Both hummingbirds and bees extract nectar from flowers. Hummingbirds consume nectar, but do not produce nor do they drink honey. However, if you put honey water in a hummingbird feeder, the bird will consume the honey.

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Generally, bees slurp up nectar (a sweet liquid that plants produce to attract insects to aid pollination) from plants (particularly some flowers) and use this substance 'nectar' as the main source in the combination of the yellow gooey substance that we consume and name as 'honey'.

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You cannot make honey from table sugar. Pure honey can only be produced by bees. Some artificial honey can be made using 10 cups of sugar, 50 clover blossoms and 2 cups of orange blossoms.

No they make honey. They collect nectar and pollen.

You can only find Munchlax on certain honey trees, referred to as Munchlax trees. You must then put honey on the same tree 3 times in a row to find a Munchlax, or else it's VERY rare to see one. A Munchlax tree is on route 205 by the Eterna Forest shortcut.

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Domesticated honey bees live in a hive. A collection of hives is called an apiary.

Bees collect nectar for food. Because raw nectar would not store for very long without fermenting, bee convert the surplus of nectar they collect into honey to use as food when nectar is not available. It is this surplus honey that we collect. Beekeepers then replace the honey with sugar syrup which, for the bees, is just as good.

The queen lays an egg in a cell and after three days the egg changes into a larva. The worker bees in the hive feed the larva with pollen and then seal the cell with wax. After a total of 21 days, a fully formed worker bee will eat its way through the wax capping of the cell and emerge into the hive. For approximately 10 days the young bee will be a 'nurse bee' looking after the new eggs that have been laid and feeding pollen to the larvae. For the following 10 days the bee becomes a 'house bee' keeping the hive clean and doing general maintenance work in the hive. It is then ready to be a fully qualified worker and spends the next 3 weeks of its life collecting nectar and pollen for the hive. It literally works its self to death and at the end of this 3 week period it dies having been alive for only 6 weeks. (6 months in winter)

Humans can consume wasp honey it's just not as localised as you would see bee honey.

The honey bee queen lays eggs in the comb cells, and these hatch into larvae which stay in the cell until after they pupate. After pupation an adult bee emerges from the cell.

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If by life cycle you mean shelf life, then its years

No, beeswax is extruded from wax glands on the underside of the abdomen of worker bees as thin plates of wax. These are manipulated by the bees' manidbles to shape them and put them where the bee wants them.

A queen's head and thorax are about the same size as that of the worker bee, but her abdomen is about half as long again as that of a worker and she is a little wider. In most varieties of honey bee the queen is about 20 to 25 mm long.

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The honey you buy in the store is made by Honey Bees. There are 7 different types of honey bees including: Apis andreniformi, Apis florea, Apis dorsata, Apis cerana, Apis koschevnikovi, Apis mellifera, and Apis nigrocincta.

If you are buying honey from a retail outlet, the packaging MUST state the origin of the honey. It must say whether the honey is pure or whether it is a blend of honey from more than one country. If you are a hay fever sufferer, you may want to buy honey which has been produced by bees in your own local area. The best way to do that is to make contact with a local beekeeper.

Yes, nectar makes honey. Bees sip nectar while accidentally or intentionally collecting floral pollen grains. They therefore use the nectar as an immediately energizing drink but also subsequently as drinks to be regurgitated for other colony members and as fluids to be mixed with digestive enzymes to make honey.

Bees don't hibernate, but if the weather is too cold they can't fly out of the hive - and in winter there would probably be no flowers anyway. So, they collect a surplus of food when there is plenty available and store it for the winter. Honey can best be described as concentrated nectar.

They aren't, as beehives are built by humans. If there aren't any humans around bees would build nests pretty much like wasps does. They prefer to start out somewhere protected, a hollow log, a crack in the rock or something.

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