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By Margaret Briggs

From earliest occasions, humans have used honey to nourish, heal, purify and guard. the traditional Babylonians and Assyrians poured honey at the foundations in their temples, and the Greeks, Hindus and Persians used it of their non secular prone. Honey is as well known this day because it was once in precedent days, and continues to be held in nice appreciate because of its confirmed antibacterial homes, in addition to its scrumptious and targeted flavor. This available guide bargains an creation to all facets of honey, its background and plenty of functions. The booklet opens with a consultant to the honey bee, in addition to an outline of the way to maintain hives and bees as a effective pastime. There follows a thesaurus of the differing kinds of honey and their homes, precise tastes, and instructed makes use of. subsequent, there are sensible recipes for beauty and health, with every kind of honey scrubs, mask, toners, cleansers and nourishers for epidermis and hair. final yet no longer least, the original flavor and merits of honey should be loved within the kitchen, and there are recipes the following for a wealth of interesting dishes and beverages.

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Mating techniques of the queen. • The rearing of a new queen by the other bees if the old queen disappeared. • The invention of movable frame hives. • Understanding how to divide a colony instead of waiting for swarming. • The development of a wax comb foundation as a starter comb, so that bees could build straight combs which are easier to handle. • The discovery that honey can be centrifuged from combs, which can then be reused. Work on bee diseases and their control and an understanding of pollen in producing the strongest colonies have also increased production and led to modern, commercial organization of the honey industry.

Towards the end of July the hives are taken up to the Dartmoor heather for the flowering season from August to early September. Afterwards the bees are returned to the Abbey, an operation which takes about ten days. SEA LAVENDER HONEY This honey is pale yellow to green when runny, but crystallizes quickly to a smooth texture with a mild but distinct flavour. Sea lavender, a member of the statice family, often grown for drying, grows on the mudflats of the tidal salt marshes around the Thames estuary, the Norfolk and Suffolk coastlines and the coast of Scotland.

THORAX The thorax is the anchor for three pairs of legs as well as two pairs of wings. Pollen baskets are located on the hind legs. The forelegs are antennae cleaners. ABDOMEN The digestive tracts of honey bees are similar to most other hymenoptera. The oesophagus enlarges near the stomach to form a crop or honey stomach, where an adult honey bee can carry up to 75 mg of nectar — about a third of the entire body weight of the bee. The sting is the same structure as the egg-laying organ in other insects but has been modified in honey bees to eject venom.

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