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Honey. Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. [1][2] Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids.
Bee pollen, also known as bee bread and ambrosia, [1] is a ball or pellet of field-gathered flower pollen packed by worker honeybees, and used as the primary food source for the hive. It consists of simple sugars, protein, minerals and vitamins, fatty acids, and a small percentage of other components. Bee pollen is stored in brood cells, mixed ...
Honey Smacks (formerly known as Sugar Smacks, known simply as Smacks in some international markets) is a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's, noted for its high sugar content. It was introduced in the early 1950s.
Directions. To make the honey simple syrup, mix 2 parts honey to one part water. Bring this mixture to 220 degrees. Muddle lemongrass, add all remaining ingredients. Shake and serve in a martini ...
Bee Free Honee. Bee Free Honee was an apple-based vegan alternative to honey that achieved recognition and funding from Shark Tank. [2] Produced from apples, lemon juice, and cane sugar, it could be used as a replacement for honey in recipes. [3] The product could be consumed by young children [4] and by people with an allergy to honey. [5]
Beehive. Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees. A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes ...
Beeswax. A beekeeper from Vojka, Serbia, making a bee hive frame. Beeswax (also known as cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The wax is formed into scales by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal segments of worker bees, which discard it in or at the hive. The hive workers collect and use it to form cells ...
Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae and adult queens. [1] It is secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of nurse bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony, regardless of sex or caste. [2] Queen larva in a cell on a frame with bees. During the process of creating new queens, the workers construct ...