12/01/2021
What is a honeybee?
Honeybees are flying insects, and close relatives of wasps and ants. They are found on every continent on earth, except for Antarctica.
Bees of all varieties live on nectar and pollen. Without bees, pollination would be difficult and time consuming - it is estimated that one-third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination. Bees have a long, straw-like tongue called a proboscis that allows them to drink the nectar from deep within blossoms. Bees are also equipped with two wings, two antennae, and three segmented body parts (the head, the thorax, and the abdomen). Honeybees are social insects that live in colonies. The hive population consists of a single queen, a few hundred drones, and thousands of worker bees.
The honeybees forage for nectar and pollen from flowering plants. They use the nectar collected to create our favorite sweet treat - honey! When carrying the nectar back to the hive, their bodies break down the complex sucrose of the nectar into two simple sugars, fructose and glucose. Tucking it neatly into a honeycomb cell, the bees will then beat their wings furiously over top of this syrupy sweet liquid to fan out the moisture and thicken the substance. When it is complete, the bees will cap that cell with beeswax, sealing the perfected honey for consumption later on.
Our Honeymoon series by Bali Boho Living is pure, raw, unprocessed and chemical free which is harvested straight from the bee hives. It has not been heated or unpasteurized and lightly strained.
Honey never really 'spoils', we recommend using your honey within a year of opening.
We also provide large quantities of honey at a lower price, 1kg, 5kg, 10kg, 20kg.
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Our mission is to provide resources to empower your body, mind and spirit. We support our mission by providing the products which are 100% pure, organic, without any additive, minimally processed, Non- GMO, Gluten free, vegan and of high quality.
In addition we aim to support our local bee farmers to continue producing the finest quality honey to promote the bees to fertilize our mother earths cycle of life.