Nauti-Bees Apiary

06/01/2025

05/27/2025

🐝 Bee Wax Production – Nature’s Precision at Work

• A single worker bee takes about 12 hours to produce 8 wax flakes.
• Wax is secreted from special abdominal glands as tiny white scales.
• It takes approximately 500,000 flakes to produce just 1 pound of wax.
• These wax scales are chewed and shaped by worker bees to build honeycomb.

🧠 Wax is essential to hive structure, storing honey, pollen, and brood. A true marvel of insect engineering.

06/03/2021

Maple Bacon Honey? Oh my...

For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed eating honey produced by the humble honeybee. Recently, though, some beekeepers have started noticing something strange about the honey coming from their bee colonies. What began as a bad situation turned into something surprisingly good.

05/17/2021

Thankfully, I have not encountered this yet!

Dragonflies are carnivores. In this article we'll discuss if dragonflies eat ho honey bees. Read more.

04/17/2021

Temperature swings tied to the design of the classic wooden hive box make extra work for honey bees in keeping a hive temperature steady.

04/12/2021

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Unique videos capture detailed instances of rare honey bee behaviors like mouth-to-mouth larval feedings. Unique video from within beehives provides special insight into honey bee behaviors, according to a study published March 17, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Paul Siefert from Goe

03/26/2021

This is AWESOME!!

The Savannah Bee Company’s headquarters on Wilmington Island is home to something that is unique to the entire Western Hemisphere: a bee therapy house.

12/10/2020

Awesome!

In Vietnam, Asian honeybees use f***s to ward off the cousins of “murder hornets." The finding could help protect bees in other countries with invasive wasps.

06/29/2020

Residents of Jordan Valley home were unaware of find, but vigilant neighbors called apiary owner who made discovery and moved hive containing 35 pounds of honey

06/17/2020

Woop Woop!!

An estimated $200,000 worth of bee hives were recovered during a sting operation in Lincoln County.