Hello, I'm Walter Pickles also known as The Bee Man
Humans discovered what wonderfully tasty stuff honey is, thousands of years ago!
Honey is a thick liquid produced by certain types of bees from the nectar of flowers.
Honeybees consume the nectar from flowers to make honey, they remain active through the
winter, consuming and metabolizing honey in order to keep from freezing to death.
There is only one queen in a hive and her main purpose in life is to make more bees.
She can lay over 1,500 eggs per day and will live two to eight years.
A colony generally contains one breeding female, or "queen"; a few thousand males,
or "drones"; and a large population of sterile female "worker" bees.
The population of a healthy hive in mid-summer can average between 50,000 and 75,000 bees.
The workers cooperate to find food
A beehive is made up of a series of boxes without tops or bottoms placed
one on top of another. Inside the boxes frames are hung, in which bees
build up the wax honeycomb where the bees raise their young and store honey.
The hives are moved from field to field as the crop needs pollinating.
Beekeepers, like myself, harvest the honey and bring it to market.
I don't have E-Mail but I can be reached every Saturday
at the Cape Breton Farmers' Market in Sydney
