Session 9 – Plants & Hive Products Sat 5 th /Sun 6 th April 2013

 Glenys Lunt  Experience

 £165 million – UK  €10 billion – Europe  $200 billion – World  10% Crops  25% plant species  ‘Bread & Gruel’

 OSR +10%  Beans  Top fruit  Soft fruit  Salad crops – (for seed)  Sunflowers  Blackthorn  Hawthorn

Round Dance – (inaccurate) food nearby Waggle Dance – (Accurate) food further away Ex: Encyclopaedia of Beekeeping by Morse & Hooper

Bee Dances Beehive 80 o Forage site 2 Forage site 1 Forage site 3 Sun Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Horizon

 Bee flight  0.5 mg honey per Km  25 gm to orbit earth  Bees carry nectar (& pollen)  approx. 40 mg  ~30,000 trips per pound of honey  Trip approx 30 mins  Phenomenal rate of collection

 Honey  Wax  Propolis  Pollen  Venom  Royal Jelly

 Preparation  Sales  Regulations