Cracker Bee Honey

Providing locally made raw honey and educational opportunities to the next generation of beekeepers

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We had a model 3D printed of a langstroth hive to better teach people about how hives work. It’s lighter, smaller, and portable!

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We rescued a colony over the weekend and introduced them to our Mason Jar Hive!

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Introducing our Patriot hive!

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We recieved our first review after teaching our first “Beekeeper for A Day” class!

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Another February honey bee!!

European honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas)

Feb. 28, 2018

Southeastern Pennsylvania

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thejesusofsucc replied to your post “vegans who know nothing about bees or bee keeping and think eating…”

honey is bees spit

It’s actually diluted bee regurgitation. Bees collect nectar and store it in a honey crop (sometimes called a “honey stomach” but it’s not a stomach at all, more of a storage sac), where it’s mixed with an enzyme. The nectar is then regurgitated into honey comb and that’s how honey is made.

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Participating in the Great American Teach-In at Seven Oaks Elementary school.

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The Difference between Bumble Bees and Honey Bees

Its come to my attention recently that a few of my bee lover friends are having trouble finding the difference between bumble bees and honey bees. 

But that’s okay because it has inspired me to write this post to clear up any confusion!!

Bumble bees and honey bees are actually very different!

Bumble bees have small, round, fluffy bodies and look like this: 

Honey bees are more slender and are less fluffy. They look like this:

Both bees are not overly aggressive when protecting their nest, but will sting to defend themselves or their colony. 

Honey bees can only sting once, whereas bumble bees are capable of stinging multiple times (bumble bees are pretty hardcore)

Bumble bee queens live for one year and other members of the hive only live for three. 

Honey bee queens can live for more than three years (honeybee queens are pretty hardcore too)

Bumble bee colonies are much smaller than honey bee colonies, with only a population of a few hundred compared to the honey bee colony which can have up to tens of thousands. 

Bumble bees actually do not produce a surplus of honey like honey bees, so beekeepers do not collect bumble bee honey for consumption. (That’s really cool, I didn’t know that!)

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Here’s your daily reminder to keep the dandelions in the ground! As you can see this little girl was enjoying herself and the pollen today ❤️

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One of our girls on a Mexican Petunia

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Air traffic control asleep on the job

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Bee’s & their hives are amazing….

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Bumble Bee Aesthetic ; requested by anon

Top left image available as prints/totes/and more on RedBubble & Society6

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Can you find Queen Beatrice?

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🐝 I present to you: the Mead Hive! 🐝

The base for the hive came from Little LaRue Apiary LLc, and we styled it from there to create the Viking Long house look. Thank you Leon for providing the antler used to make the door handles to access the autoflow frame.

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Coming to our bee yard soon: The Mead Hive!

Styled after a viking long house, this hive will hold our second set of Autoflow frames.