Honey

Artificial honeycomb can be made using cellulose or paper. The cellulose should be inserted into a honeycomb shaped mold and set to dry.

My dad was a beekeeper, when he would store the honey in jars sometimes it would turn to crystals around the top of the jar. I think that is what you are refering to, because when the crystals would break up {dry} they would look somewhat like a powder.

Honey is pretty pure in the comb: bees don't cap the honey with wax until it is ready. Beekeepers and honey producers just filter the honey to remove any bits of wax or other solid particles after extraction.

No, honey is perfectly safe during pregnancy. It should just be avoided for babies below age 1 since it can cause Botulism. Adults should have no problems dealing with that (it's also extremely rare) but it's always a good idea to avoid raw honey, which is unpasteurized.

Berries that tastes like honey

Consumption and storage are the actions that bees take in regard to their honey. Honey is a carbohydrate-, dextrose-, laevulose-rich solution that is made from floral, sucrose-rich nectars. It serves as an energy food during colder days and nights when forages are impossible or limited.

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Honey bees, unlike a lot of other insects, don't hibernate but remain active through the winter. However, they can't leave the hive if it is too cold, and in any case there are no flowers from which they can get nectar. For this reason they collect as much nectar as they can when it is available and turn the surplus into honey. This is their food for the winter.

Man discovered honey many thousands of years ago and until the discovery of how to extract sugar from sugar cane and sugar beet it was the only sweetener available. This is why man started to keep bees in hives some three or four thousand years ago.

Bees, be they wild or domestic, produce honey in the same manor. Nectar is gathered, returned to hive, deposited in the comb, water is evaporated and the comb is sealed.

The difference is the source of the nectar. Bee keepers will provide their hives for pollination and will label the honey based on the crop being pollinated. For example: If a hive is intended to pollinate an orange grove the honey would be marketted as orange blossom honey and would have citrus notes as expected.

Wild hives will gather nectar from nearby flowers. So the honey may be comprised of a more diverse supply of nectar. This will create a more complex flavor.

The honeybee often seen in Papal coats of arms and also in much of the artwork housed in the Vatican is a symbol used by the Barberini family of Popes.

Could that honeybee be The Triple Crown above the Keys of the Kingdom?

Neonicotinoid Insecticides is used to kill and keep bugs off of crops, but has been affecting the honey bees for the worse. It affects their ability to fly and navigate to do their job and help plants multiply.

Yes: Any tart additive will affect the taste of honey.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'indicator', but if you mean how do we know when the honey is ready for collection, then we wait for the bees to let us know. They will cover the honey cells with wax when they think it is ready. They may leave a few cells open, either because the bees think they are not full enough or because they are feeding from them, so we wait for most of the comb to be covered.

In its lifetime, the average honey bee worker produces about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.

mostly simple sugars, predominately glucose. There are some enzymes and acids in there as well from the process bees use to actually make the honey.

Interesting fact, honey is a supersaturated, which is shy it will crystallize if left siting for too long

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Most bees make honey to feed themselves but only honey bees produce enough honey for a beekeeper to remove some of it in any great quantity.

They have to keep it somewhere before they put it in jars and take it to the supermarket!

The coffee plants flower and the bees collect this pollen and use it to make their honey. Honey made from this pollen has a distinctly different flavor than the clover honey sold at most grocery stores.

No. The honey badger has a natural immunity to various forms of snake venom that allows it to eat snakes with minor ill effect. This immunity is present because, like mongooses, honey badgers have nicotinic acetylcholine receptors that are slightly different from those of other animals in that they disallow venom to bind to them, which prevents the venom from blocking nerve signals that are sent to the brain. This prevents the stunning effect of specific snake venom that often causes animals to die from the lack of movements necessary to sustain life, such as breathing.

Honey is basically a fluid. It is a saturated or supersaturated sugar solution with about 18 per cent water. When collected from the honeycomb, honey is always liquid, but because of the concentration of sugars, they will eventually start to crystalize out of solution, and some honeys do this faster than others. A little gentle warming, and crystalized honeys will usually become liquid again.

According to THIS abstract, it looks as if honey does have an inhibitory effect on blood clotting. Check with your doctor before you start eating a lot of honey. A spoonful now and then shouldn't change INR though.

A honey bee has two stomachs. The nectar they extract, half of it goes to their stomach for energy while the rest goes into the other stomach where it is processed into honey, which they transport back to the hive. Companies that transport honey extract this honey from the hive , store it in jars and sell.

There are yeasts/ fungi that can grow in honey- babies have not yet developed defenses against them. It can be very unhealthy to feed honey to babies.