Honey is the King of food and medicine . It uses as medicine as well as food, also known as "Liquid Gold". An Indian call it as  "AMRUTHU" which gives us long life. It can control child birth also keeps body after death. Honey was the major content in lotion which used in Egyptian mummies. Honey is most effective in wound and burn because it is a natural antibiotic. The health benefits of honey include the following treatments, taken from both traditional and modern medical experts. Sweetener: Sugar can be substituted with honey in many food and drinks. Honey contains about 69% glucose and fructose, enabling it to be used as a sweetener that is better for your overall health than normal white sugar. Weight Loss: Though honey has more calories than...

Honeybees are the only creatures that make their own home construction materials. When they need to create a place to raise their young or to store food, worker female bees make honeycomb. Beeswax is a tough wax formed from a mixture of several compounds including: hydrocarbons, monoesters, diesters, triesters , hydroxy monoesters, hydroxy polyesters, acid esters, acid polyesters, free acids, free alcohols, and other unidentified substances. How Bees Make Beeswax Honeybees ingest honey to make beeswax. It takes approximately 7 kg of honey to produce 1 kg of wax. Once honey is ingested, the bees hang inside the colony for 24 hours while their bodies convert the honey into wax. The wax is secreted out of eight glands on the underside of the bee's abdomen. When the wax leaves the bee's body...

What is Propolis and why bees make it? This resinous substance is gathered from the buds or limbs of some trees. It is brittle in cold weather but so sticky in the warm weather that the workers apply it immediately to stop up cracks inside the hive to keep out the wind and rain, to reduce too large an entrance way, and to strengthen the combs at their juncture with the walls of the hive. Sometimes little critters like a field mouse will come into a hive as the weather gets cold. The bees will sting it to death and then seal up the corpse ( much like a mummy is wrapped up ) with the propolis. Propolis is often called "bee glue." It is the sticky resin that seeps from the buds of some trees and oozes from the bark of others. The trees that produce this resin are mainly conifers, which are ...