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Wooden beehive boxes placed in a blooming almond orchard in spring

Did You Know Bee Rental Is a Thing?

Commercial beekeepers often earn a second income by renting their bee colonies to large-scale farms.

Did You Know Bee Rental Is a Thing?

Commercial beekeepers often earn a second income by renting their bee colonies to large-scale farms.

Rows of wooden beehive boxes covered in fresh snow in winter

What is Naturally Gathered Beeswax?

Getting through Winter is a year round effort for most bees.

What is Naturally Gathered Beeswax?

Getting through Winter is a year round effort for most bees.

Close-up of a smiling woman's glossy, healthy lips and teeth, illustrating the benefits of beeswax-based lip care.

Lick Your Lips, It's Good For You

Beeswax is loaded with great nutrients that help protect your health.

Lick Your Lips, It's Good For You

Beeswax is loaded with great nutrients that help protect your health.

A honeybee gathering pollen from a cluster of small yellow and pink wildflowers

The Origin of Bees

Did you know that Honeybees aren’t native to North America at all? They were brought to the East Coast by Europeans in 1632.

The Origin of Bees

Did you know that Honeybees aren’t native to North America at all? They were brought to the East Coast by Europeans in 1632.

A honeybee pollinating delicate pink and white spring blossoms on a tree branch

Bees and the Economy, What You Should Know

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate up to 80 percent of the country's insect crops—meaning bees pollinate over $15 billion worth of crops each year. 

Bees and the Economy, What You Should Know

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate up to 80 percent of the country's insect crops—meaning bees pollinate over $15 billion worth of crops each year. 

A wooden bee hotel filled with hollow stems and tubes, nestled among orange daylilies and greenery

Make a Solitary Bee Happy and Make a Bee Hotel

While honeybees make honey, there are many types of beneficial bees that do not.

Make a Solitary Bee Happy and Make a Bee Hotel

While honeybees make honey, there are many types of beneficial bees that do not.

Bee-loved Facts

  • Bee with golden speckled body and striped wings nestled among soft pink flower petals

    Smell This!

    Did you know that each little bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.

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  • Honeycomb frame filled with bees, orange capped cells and golden insects in a wooden hive outdoors

    Hey Honey!

    While many believe that honey is just a by-product of honey bees daily work, in reality bees need it themselves to survive. Honey bees must consume about 17-20 pounds of honey before they can biochemically produce one pound of beeswax. 

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  • Bee on pink wildflowers with soft blurred background and warm sunlight glow in a spring garden

    Lotta Bees

    It takes 556 bees to make one pound of honey. Meanwhile annual honey consumption in the US alone is 450 million pounds. Do the math ~ that’s a lot of bees

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