Honey is a sweet fluid made by honeybees using the nectar of flowering plants. There are many different kinds of honey because there are many kinds of flowers. Honey can vary in color, smell and taste. Honey is mostly sugar. People may use it to make foods sweeter. It has other ingredients that can help kill bacteria, viruses and fungi. Honey may help lower swelling and irritation, also called ...
Dead out Honey - What to do with it. | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
I lost 2 hives this winter and have 2 medium supers and several deep frames full of honey from those colonies. I'll be starting again in another few days with 2 packages. I don't want to harvest the honey since I treated for mites so I'll give it back to the bees. At the same time, I want the...
Can't say why bees might need salt. I have a small cattle operation near my bees and I keep a salt block for the cows use. It has included trace minerals. During the brood rearing season and after a rain, the area has so many bees around the salt block the cattle seek other parts of the pasture. I can only assume by observation that the salt block contains some elements that honeybees need.
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran around 10,000 years ago. Goats have been used for ...