Honeybees are pretty great at what they do. They are very hard
workers and the end result is that sweet sticky syrup we use for many different
things. I bet there are some things you did not know about bees and honey.
There are 20,000 different species of bees that are known about in the world.
Honey does not go bad as far as I have ever known. It will look like crystal
but you can still eat it.
I have heard about people who were told by their doctor to put honey on an incision that was infected or wouldn’t heal. It does work. Honey can be effective as a topical antibiotic treatment. There are many more uses I’m sure but don’t do any of them unless you are told to do so and know what will happen.
Honeybees are so important to our food supply, not to mention we would not have the beautiful flowering plants we like to look at all around us. I know so many people are allergic to bee stings but if we continue to kill them because we don’t want them in our back yards or gardens we all will have a big problem. Most often bees will just fly into you and bonce off, it’s when we slap them is when we get stung. That isn’t always the case but if they don’t feel threatened they usually don’t sting. There was a woman on a show that uses bees in an awful way.
Deuteronomy 1:44 (NKJV)44. And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah.
Deuteronomy 32:13 (NKJV)
13. “He made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;
Judges 14:8-9 (NKJV)
8. After some time, when he returned to get her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the carcass of the lion.
9. He took some of it in his hands and went along, eating. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they also ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
I Kings 14:3 (NKJV)
3. Also take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child.”
Psalm 19:10 (NKJV)
10. More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Proverbs 16:24 (NKJV)
24. Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.
Matthew 3:4 (NKJV)
4. Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Luke 24:42-43 (NKJV)
42. So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
43. And He took it and ate in their presence.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni47505517/
Read this story for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
Bring Back the Bees:
https://xerces.org/bringbackthepollinators/
