Click on the icon and follow us on Facebook! Home About us Prescription Products plug HONEY BEE Honey bees, or tambin, have been kept as pets by humans for about 6,000 years. The bees do not manage on their own but live in communities in a strict structure. In a society there is a queen who lives about 3-5 years. The queen never leaves the hive and rules society with the help of pheromones. She is also the one who lays all the eggs. During the high season, she can lay eggs equivalent to 1.5 times her own weight per day! Fertilized eggs become working bees and unfertilized eggs become drones. The working bees live about 4 weeks up to 6 months and are, just as the name suggests, the ones who perform all other work in and outside the hive. Inside the hive they clean, they feed larvae, produce wax from which they make the honeycombs and they take care of the queen. Outside the hive, they guard their home against intruders and collect nectar, pollen and water. The drones live during the summer and are the ones that fertilize the queen during her mating flight as a newly hatched queen. Inside the hive, they contribute with the help of pheromones to the balance in society, but since they otherwise do nothing productive, but mostly eat from supplies, they are driven out of the hive by the working bees in the autumn, and die. Read more about the bees' different products here. HONEY Honey is nectar that the bees collect from the flowers in the wild and which they then process with enzymes that break down the sugars. The water content is reduced from about 75% to just under 20%. The processing means that about 3 kg of nectar becomes 1 kg of honey. The various substances in honey are dextrose, fructose, water, compound sugars, enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Depending on which flowers the bees get their nectar from, the honey gets different properties in terms of color, taste, aroma and structure. Here in Sweden, we are used to a firm, spreadable honey with a similar texture and taste all year round. This is because the trade demanded a homogeneous product that the consumer could trust that it knew what it was getting. To produce such a standard honey, the entire year's harvest has been mixed. Today, the trend is for us to buy locally produced and the closer you get to the local beekeeper, the greater the chance of getting hold of so-called black honey. This also places higher demands on honey buyers to separate the different varieties in order to be able to provide a differentiated range. Read more about different types of honey here. Gårdshonung Sverige AB Torstensbyn 14, 661 94 Säffle Org.nr: 556873-0815 Phone: 072-703 46 03 Fax: 0533-631 10 Website from Askås.