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04/29/2025

Our honey is now available at DEE’S QUICK BITES in Edenville, Michigan

Stop and try Dee’s delicious menu and grab some local honey for your allergies!

🏠 BEE COLONY ORGANIZATION FACTSBees are highly social insects with a well-structured division of labor. Here are some fa...
04/29/2025

🏠 BEE COLONY ORGANIZATION FACTS

Bees are highly social insects with a well-structured division of labor. Here are some fascinating facts about their organization:

🏠 STRUCTURE OF A BEEHIVE

• The hive consists of many small hexagonal cells called honeycomb, which serve as nurseries for larvae and storage for honey.

• Bees use beeswax to build the hive, making it strong and space-efficient.

👑 THREE MAIN CASTES IN A COLONY

1. Queen Bee 🐝👑The only reproductive female in the hive.
Can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day.
Releases pheromones to control the behavior and unity of the colony.

2. Worker Bees 🐝💼The most numerous members, all female but sterile.
Perform multiple tasks: collecting nectar, guarding the hive, feeding larvae, and cleaning.
Live for about six weeks in summer but can survive longer in winter.

3. Drone Bees (Male Bees) 🐝🔵Their sole purpose is to mate with the queen.
After mating, they die immediately.
In winter, worker bees expel drones from the hive to conserve food.

🧭 HOW BEES COMMUNICATE

• Worker bees perform the "waggle dance" to indicate the location of food sources.

• They use pheromones to send signals, such as alerting others of danger or guiding them to nectar.

🔥 HIVE DEFENSE

• When threatened, worker bees sacrifice themselves by stinging intruders.

• Some species, like Japanese honeybees, can swarm around an enemy (such as a hornet) and vibrate their bodies to generate heat, fatally overheating the predator.

🍯 THE BEEHIVE: A PERFECT SOCIETY

• Every bee has a specific role and works tirelessly to sustain the colony.

• No bee is lazy or independent; they all cooperate to maintain a well-organized social system.

This is a neat way to check on your bees in the winter. I can monitor the temp inside some of the hives I’ve selected an...
01/05/2025

This is a neat way to check on your bees in the winter. I can monitor the temp inside some of the hives I’ve selected and also monitor their honey stores with the scale feature! 🍯 🐝

Bottled up 100 bottles of honey today 🍯 They are heading to Demascus, VA next weekend!
10/14/2024

Bottled up 100 bottles of honey today 🍯
They are heading to Demascus, VA next weekend!

We have had 1 bear, back in 2020, come for our bees but the electric fence stopped it then - and in all these years, we ...
05/08/2024

We have had 1 bear, back in 2020, come for our bees but the electric fence stopped it then - and in all these years, we still, have never had a problem. Knock on wood 🪵

This is in our woods - April 2024

Highly recommend the Paramark-Magnum Solar Pak!

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🍯 Our photos won some contests 🍯We got a place in the 2024 calendar and we also got front cover of the last magazine cov...
10/11/2023

🍯 Our photos won some contests 🍯

We got a place in the 2024 calendar and we also got front cover of the last magazine cover 🐝

Hey I’m watching The Pollinators! Amazing video! Check it out now on Prime Video!
06/21/2023

Hey I’m watching The Pollinators! Amazing video!

Check it out now on Prime Video!

Amazon.com: The Pollinators : Bret Adee, Jack Algiere, Jeff Anderson, Alan Ard, Dan Barber, Leigh-Kathryn Bonner, Zak Browning, Glenn Card, Steve CLarke, Lucas Criswell, William Criswell, James Frazier PhD, Maryann Frazier, Christina Grozinger PhD, Dave Hackenberg, Davey Hackenberg, Bob Harvey, Neil...

MSU Extension bee courses. Yesterday was a hygienic class and today is all about queen rearing! Always neat to hear how ...
06/17/2023

MSU Extension bee courses. Yesterday was a hygienic class and today is all about queen rearing! Always neat to hear how others do things! 🍯🐝🍯

We did 13 more splits on May 27. I just checkered these frames yesterday because they weren’t moving over to the right. ...
06/06/2023

We did 13 more splits on May 27.

I just checkered these frames yesterday because they weren’t moving over to the right.

All the splits should have the queen returning soon and I should see eggs by June 11 if my chart is correct! 🍯🐝🍯🐝🍯

Visited Bob Binnie’s store in Georgia today! If you are in the area, it is a very nice store!
05/25/2023

Visited Bob Binnie’s store in Georgia today!
If you are in the area, it is a very nice store!

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Gladwin, MI
48624

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+19893873492

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