Welcome to HoneySweet
The home of naturally flavoured honey
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.
