Taste The Difference
A Little About Us
Since we started Beekeeping in 2020, Beestonley Honey has been providing the people of Yorkshire with the finest Honey products. To keep guaranteeing just that, we have developed relationships with the best customers and vendors, and together make sure to always carry your quality Yorkshire Honey.
About Bees
Key information
Honey bees make honey from pollen and nectar collected from flowers. They live in large colonies with one queen, many sterile females workers and some male drones. In the wild honey bees nest in hollow trees.
When a new queen emerges, she embarks on a mating flight. On returning to her hive, with help from the workers, she kills the failing, old queen. Alternatively, before the new queen emerges, the old queen may leave with a swarm of workers to form a new colony.
Queens live for several years, but summer-born workers live for only a few weeks. Those maturing later usually survive the winter by huddling together, with the queen, and eating stored food. Drones are turned out of the hive in autumn and left to die.
Honey bees are important flower pollinators. They sting once and only attack when threatened. But, as with wasps, the 'smell' of a bee’s venom causes other bees to attack.
About Honey
Your Local Honey
Honey is a sweet liquid that bees produce using nectar from flowers. People throughout the world have hailed the health benefits of honey for thousands of years.
Honey is available raw or pasteurized and in a variety of colour grades. On average, it contains about 80% sugar. People remove honey from the hive and bottle it directly, so it may also contain trace amounts of yeast, wax, and pollen.
Some studies have found that consuming raw honey may help with seasonal allergies, and others have concluded that honey can help wounds heal.
About Bee Swarms
How and Why
Swarming is a natural process. It is the colony reproducing by the old queen leaving with some of the bees. They leave their hive and find somewhere to hang in a cluster until the scout bees decide on their new home.
Most swarms occur on warm sunny days from May to the end of July usually between 11am – 4pm.
Often there is a peak on a fine day after poor weather when temperatures approach the high teens.
A real honey bee swarm can be extremely dramatic involving many thousands of bees in a large noisy cloud However, they normally settle into a cluster within 15 minutes.
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Please contact us if you are lucky enough to see a Swarm cluster of bees. We can collect the bees and place them safe in there own hive.
