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ADOPT A BEE HIVE HONEY SHOP WEDDING FAVOURS BEE BOOKS BEE GARDEN GIFTS BEE GIFTS & TOYS START BEEKEEPING BEEKEEPING COURSES BEEKEEPING SUPPLIES BEEHIVES BEEKEEPER'S BLOG HONEY PAGES BEESWAX BEE PAGES BEES DYING LIZARD ART GALLERY DRIFTWOOD GALLERY WEATHER FORECAST LINKS PAGE HOME PAGE Cornish Art Gallery There is a renewed and increasing interest in honey and other honeybee products as natural health foods and super foods. Try some of these Naturally Raw Honey Honey and Pollen Honey and Propolis Honeycomb	The Honey Bee
	THE BEE has been around for about 80 million years evolving alongside flowering plants and a special relationship has developed between them. The flowers provide nectar for the bee and the bee transports pollen from one flower to another and so pollinates them. When one bee has found the nectar source she communicates its location to others in the hive using a complicated dance language unique to the honeybee. About one third of our total diet comes directly or indirectly from bee pollinated plants such as fruit, vegetables and seed crops. Considering also the wildflowers, trees and non-food crops that are bee pollinated, it can be seen that the ecological and economic importance of the bee in our environment is immense. So help the beekeeper keep his bees and support our environment, eat more honey! THE BEEHIVE is at its busiest during the summer when it can contain more than 50,000 adult workers. They are all female and are the daughters of the queen whose task is to lay about 1,500 eggs a day, more than a million in her lifetime. Male bees (drones) are only produced during the summer and do no work at all in the hive. Their sole purpose is to fly in search of other queens and mate with them, immediately after which they die! The population can eventually reach a point when the colony splits. The old queen leaves with many followers in a swarm to start a new colony elsewhere and a new queen is produced to start again with the other bees left behind. This interesting visitor came to one of our beehives - find out more Looking for an original gift? (more) Adopt a Cornish Bee Hive. You'll receive a newsletter every month full of fascinating facts and pictures explaining what is going on inside your adopted hive over a whole year. Discover the hidden and complex world of the honey bee, find out why bees swarm and where their honey comes from. An educational and ethical gift for anybody interested in bees, honey and the natural world in Cornwall. A perfect introduction to the bee hive and beekeeping without the sting! Website Design by Robert Bell - all content, images etc. are copyright - please contact me for permission to copy or reproduce