Honey, I love you!

I take a Natural History course at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, & Zoo (BAMZ) and last week's lesson was on honey production in Bermuda where I got to meet beekeepr #5 Mr. Furbert. I was fascinated, even tho' I do not like bees, and I am not really all that partial to honey (Dr. Oz says honey helps cure ulcers FYI)...honey is a natural food, so I paid attention. I was fascinated to learn that the honey producers are the females (girl power!) and the honeybee pretty much lives to make it's food, which is honey...and that's all it does all day long, save for the queen who eats and has babies, and the drones who procreate with the queen...although while it is producing it's honey it does alllll kinds of awesome things for all the other food we eat - basically, it pollenates EVERYTHING.

I think the most fascinating part was that they can choose what the baby larvae grow up to be by feeding it specific food...so, if they need more worker bees (females) they feed it one kind of food (bee milk or bee bread - a mix of pollen and honey) if they need more drones (males) they feed it someting else (which I forget) and if the hive needs a new queen, they feed the larva royal jelly which they produce out of their heads...gross but true....oh, and they also make their wax from 'wax glands', and when I heard that, all I could think about was human ear wax, soooo that kind of made me think it was gross (you'll know why in a second!)

The honey in Bermuda is sooooooo yummy! So, I knew I was going home with a bottle...but Mr. Furbert also had honeycombs (not the cereal) for sale...and you know, I could not resist trying something new! This is as natural as honey can get! STILL IN THE COMB! So, being the selfless blogger that I am, I taste-tested this for you - and YUMMY it was deeeeee-lish! Tastes just like honey actually - hahahahaha! Well, you can eat the wax too...so I tried that and it was like tasteless gum, but on hot toast it was the bomb and nothing like ear wax at all!