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If you ever have a cold drink with sugar in it at a restaurant you are bound to have had a bee buzzing around you once or twice in your life. Bees are fantastic little insects. Most famous for a golden liquid they produce called honey! Little else is commonly known about the honeybee and its other works. Let’s introduce you to the humble honey bee now…
The apiculture niche industry is vibrant and in high demand. Bee products are an integral part of most of our lives in some way or another. We just don’t realise it. Bee products form part of the ingredients of all sorts of useful items you and I use every day. There are shampoos, soaps, beauty products, candles, sauces, drinks and medicines that use bee products as integral ingredients. Take a closer look.
An introduction to bee products
It goes without saying that honey is the best-known bee product of all. Even honey comes in different formats. It also is the base ingredient for a number of other bee products or by-products you can make with honey. We will elaborate later on the honey products.
It is not a common bee product in the South African beekeeping industry. The market for queen bees is not in high demand in the local industry as our bees are highly productive and reproduce wild swarms in vast numbers that beekeepers can ‘catch’ and house in a comfortable beehive. In international regions such as America, there is certainly a market for queen bee rearing for commercial gain. In the United States, it is common practice to purchase queen bee packs through mail order. These would include one queen bee with a royal court of around 30 worker bees.
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Although not a direct bee product it would definitely generate ongoing income. Pollination of crops for fruit, seed or general is certainly part and parcel of the honey bees daily workload. Beekeepers are in a position to provide especially focused pollination services to farmers by ‘flooding’ the local site over the flowering period of the crop in question.
Beekeepers as pollinators have the opportunity to incorporate pollination services into the general bee product list and improve income yield generated for both the beekeeper as well as the farmer. Studies show that pollination services can increase crop yield by up to 70%.
Apiculture or beekeeping niche products include bee stings, bee pollen and bee venom. Specialist bee products that can be harvested for both medicinal or health uses are continued in the paragraphs below…
Honey Bee products in summary
There’s more reason to get involved with beekeeping than meets the eye. Apiculture provides niche products of all types for beekeepers to generate profits. Almost everything that honey bees produce has a market. Pizza’s, marinades, beauty creams, make-up products, beer, wine, medicines, ointments and skin treatments are some of the by-products that include honey bee products. It really is fascinating how the little honey bee can provide an abundance of wholesome benefits for us.
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