Author: mact

Planting flowers in pots for bees

Often we dont have the luxury of a garden or large outdoor space don’t worry planting flowers in pots and putting outside on a balcony, large safe window ledge or somewhere outside when you don’t have a large garden or…

pollen

Pollen is not an ingredient of honey but is stored inside the hive as a food as it has proteins, nutrients, amino acids, vitamins, lipids and over 250 active substances which is important for larva to develop. Pollen inside the…

trained bees

Just found out recently that bees have been trained as bomb detectors and are able to detect hidden landmines.  Not only that but honeybees have also been trained to detect illness in the human body cancer being one of the…

Solitary Bees

Most species of bees are solitary ie each female makes her own nest. Solitary bees are shorted lived as adults ie having grown through the stages of egg, larva and pupa before becoming adults. In the UK there are about…

Honey and Cholesterol

Eating healthily and getting plenty of exercise will help in lowering cholesterol a handy wee remedy is taking: two tablespoons raw honey three teaspoons of cinnamon powder mix well then add a tablespoon of this mixture to a glass of…