You add a dollop of honey to your tea, spread it on toast, and drizzle it on ice cream. What if you could have an unlimited supply of this golden elixir? Instead of buying honey at the store, consider starting a beehive and keeping a honey-producing colony in your backyard. Beekeeping is becoming more popular. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that honey production increased to 19 percent between 2013 and 2014, with the average hive producing upwards of 65 pounds…

True or False... The male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work. All they do is mate. #bees #nature #drone #life

To a new beekeeper differentiating a drone from the queen can be a little confusing. I remember the first time we did a hive inspection with our first

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We talked about the worker bees and that they are all female. What about the boys? There aren't as many male bees in the hive as there are female bees. This is because the queen can decide when she lays an egg whether or not the egg will be male or female. Neat trick, eh? Why doesn't she lay more male eggs? Because male honeybees don't work! The female worker bees do all the work in the hive: cleaning cells, feeding baby bees, making honey, gathering pollen and nectar, guarding the hive…

ROYAL JELLY It is the primary food source for the queen bee throughout her entire lifespan. The queen consumes it exclusively, which enables her to grow larger and live longer than the worker bees. This diet contributes to the queen's enhanced reproductive capacity. #bees

Castes of the western honey bee Apis mellifera: worker, queen, and drone.