Honey, thought to be the most expensive in the world, has gone on sale at Harrods. The luxurious Life Mel honey Life Mel honey costs a whopping £42 for a pot containing just 120g. Celebrities including Sienna Miller and Kylie Minogue are huge fans, according to the London department store. But the jars will not be [...]
Archive for December, 2007
‘Healthly’ Honey On Sale – For £42
Posted in Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apitherapy and Bee Venom Therapy
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apitherapy is the broad practice of using bee pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, honey or bee venom for therapeutic use. Like most “alternative” therapies, there is nothing new about it. The only thing “new” is Western medicine finally “discovering” it! Chinese physicians of 4000 years ago used apitherapy. Hippocrates wrote of its uses. The Roman [...]
The Merovingian Bee
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My friend, Frank, suggested I research into the Merovingian kings – and their fascination for bees. More recently this part of beelore has been popularised by Dan Brown’s best seller “The Da Vinci Code”. Much of this book was based on previous research, some of which is shown below: =========================================================== From “Bloodline of the Holy [...]
Recipe for Bee Candy
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Found at www.beekeeping.com from Bill Morong – Email: morharn@KYND.NET - a very useful article on making Bee Candy which I am going to try: Having printed and studied all the bee candy references in the archives, we decided to attempt to take a fudgy or fondant-like candy. We did not wish to use corn syrup as [...]
Bee Bread = Bee Pollen = Ambrosia
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Bee bread or bee pollen is the main source of food for most honey bees and their larvae. It is fed to all larvae except those that are destined to become queens; the queen larvae are fed royal jelly instead. Bee bread consists of honey and pollens which are gathered by the worker bees. A [...]
The Value of a Swarm of Bees
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Bylaugh on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was surprised that the beekeeper was so willing to come to our house so quickly. Later I discovered that collecting a swarm of bees is not like sending for a rat catcher. It is not even like mole catching. A swarm of bees has a value – and if you want to take them [...]
Honey for Sale!
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping, Bylaugh on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Anyway, by this stage it was half past four and Mum said that we should find someone to take the bees away. She suggested that I ring the local butchers shop as they sold local honey. Not my first thought of action, but a sensible one. Mum always had sensible ideas in an emergency. The [...]
Bee Stings on the Back
Posted in Bee Present, Bylaugh on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The only previous experience I had had with bees (at least I think they had been bees) was when we were living in Scotland about ten years previously. My brother and I had been out on a long walk in the countryside. About half a mile from home we had been larking around (as small [...]
Ex Africa semper aliquid novi
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(There is always something new out of Africa.) from Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79) Last year, scientists worked out that all honey bees originally came from Africa. By looking at variations in genetic markers from 341 bees, researchers found that the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, originated in Africa and migrated to Europe at least twice. [...]
