Shop: Acacia Heather Wildflower All Honey Gift Sets Acacia vs Manuka honey is one of the most common questions in the honey aisle, and the honest answer is that they were never really competing for the same job. One is the lightest, most delicate honey on the shelf. The other is dark, bold and bought […]
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Halictus rubicundus, the orange-legged furrow bee. Reinhold Moller (Ermell), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Halictus rubicundus | Sweat bee Furrow bee Socially variable Ground-nesting Bees Hub World Bee Atlas UK Bee Map Plate Without Bees UK Bee Species Orange-legged Furrow Bee (Halictus rubicundus) Halictus rubicundus (Christ, 1791) · family Halictidae The orange-legged furrow bee
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Bombus barbutellus, Barbut’s cuckoo bee. James Lindsey at Ecology of Commanster, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Bombus barbutellus | Cuckoo bee Social parasite Widespread Subgenus Psithyrus Bees Hub World Bee Atlas UK Bee Map Plate Without Bees UK Bee Species Barbut’s Cuckoo Bee (Bombus barbutellus) Bombus barbutellus (Kirby, 1802) · subgenus Psithyrus Barbut’s cuckoo
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Nomada fucata, the painted nomad bee. Floor Arts at Waarneming.nl, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Nomada fucata | Nomad bee Cleptoparasite Spreading north Wasp-like Bees Hub World Bee Atlas UK Bee Map Plate Without Bees UK Bee Species Painted Nomad Bee (Nomada fucata) Nomada fucata Panzer, 1798 · family Apidae The painted nomad bee
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Melecta albifrons, the common mourning bee. gailhampshire, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Melecta albifrons | Cleptoparasite Cuckoo of flower bees Spring Tribe Melectini Bees Hub World Bee Atlas UK Bee Map Plate Without Bees UK Bee Species Common Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons) Melecta albifrons (Forster, 1771) · tribe Melectini The common mourning bee is
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Bombus sylvestris, a male forest cuckoo bee on marsh thistle. Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bombus sylvestris | Cuckoo bee Social parasite Widespread Subgenus Psithyrus Bees Hub World Bee Atlas UK Bee Map Plate Without Bees UK Bee Species Forest Cuckoo Bee (Bombus sylvestris) Bombus sylvestris (Lepeletier, 1832) · subgenus Psithyrus The
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Bombus ruderarius, the red-shanked carder bee. Kjell Magne Olsen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bombus ruderarius | Declining Carder bee Long-tongued Section 41 priority Bees Hub World Bee Atlas UK Bee Map Plate Without Bees UK Bee Species Red-shanked Carder Bee (Bombus ruderarius) Bombus ruderarius (Müller, 1776) · subgenus Thoracobombus The red-shanked carder bee
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Most honey on British supermarket shelves is a blend of honeys from multiple unspecified countries, heated to delay crystallisation and pressure-filtered to remove pollen. It is legal, it is sweet, and it is not what honey can be. If you want honey that retains its natural enzymes, pollen and the full flavour of a specific
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Raw honey on a beehive frame before extraction. Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The difference between raw honey and regular honey is not a matter of opinion, branding or marketing. It is a measurable difference in processing temperature, filtration method, enzyme content and pollen presence, all of which can be tested in
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A drop of honey. Dino Giordano, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Honey is often described as the only food that never expires. That claim is not quite true, but the reality is more interesting than the myth. Under the right conditions, honey can remain safe to eat for decades, possibly centuries, because its chemical
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