Bee Limitless

BEE MAGIC

Carriers of Sweetness:  The world has between 16-20,000 species of bees, yet fewer than a dozen of those produce honey.  The honeybee responsible for most of the honey that we enjoy is  Apis Mellifera, latin for "carriers of sweetness". Other types of bees that make honey include apis cerana, apis dorsata and apis floria.   This honeybee species evolved on the warm shores of the Mediterranean Sea (where our Greek and Sicilian honeys come from), and was eventually brought to the western hemisphere by the Spaniards.  The Mellifera has since been introduced successfully on every continent except Antarctica  (when they start making honey in Antarctica, you know Bee Limitless will sell it).

Bees are Ancient Partners with Flowers:  Bees have been on Earth for over 100 million years, evolving into a distinct species in the late Jurassic period between dinosaurs and humans.  Not surprisingly, that is the same time period that flowers began to evolve and blossom.  Flowers evolved to protect the ovule of the plant and add a splash of color and aroma to attract more bees and other pollinators, to increase the chances for survival of the plant line through sexual diversity.

Busy as a Bee:  On the foraging flight which lasts 30-45 minutes, a bee visits 200-300 flowers of a single species, accumulating about .05g of nectar, equal to up to half its body weight.  It might do 10 such flights a day, yielding .5g of nectar.  On a good day, the 10,000 foraging bees in a hive might go on 100,000 such flights, visiting between 20-30 million flowers!, and collect up to 10 pounds of nectar, which is turned into 3 pounds honey in the hive.