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Welcome to LSBEES the makers producers Halleluyah Honey

We provide 'Pollination' , honey bee hive hosting and live bee removal services such as Bee Swarm Removal and Established Bee Colony Removals. 

 

We also sell all raw unfiltered honey, lotions & creams made with pure beeswax. For those interested in becoming beekeepers we provide quality , Woodenware and Starter Kits.

 If you would like to help restore the honeybee population consider hosting a honeybee hive. If you cannot host a hive consider sponsoring a honeybee colony.


 

Honeybee Swarms
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Learn about the plight of the Honeybee and how the shortage of honeybees is effecting the world and our food supply.  Honeybees are responsible for pollinating nearly 100 crops and are responsible for 1/3 the food that we eat.

Please watch Silence of the Bees on PBS. (full version) or  Silence of the Bees (condensed) on PBS.

   

 

Interested in keeping your own honeybees? Look at our Honeybee Starter Kits.  


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Live Honeybee Removal
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Beekeeping around the world

Traditional Kenyan Bark Hives: Suspended to protect the hives from the Honey Badger. December 2009

 

Interesting Information

Honey Bees

  • There are three types of bees in the hive – Queen, Worker and Drone.
  • The queen may lay 1,500 eggs or more each day during her 3 or 4 year lifespan
  • Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
  • Honey bees' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, thus making their distinctive buzz.
  • Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
  • Honeybees are the only bees that die after they sting.
  • Honeybees are responsible for pollinating approx 80% of all fruit, vegetable and seed crops in the U.S.
  • Honeybees have five eyes, 3 small ones on top of the head and two big ones in front. 
  • Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using pheromones (scents).
  • Honeybees never sleep!

Honey

  • Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water.
  • To make one pound of honey, the bees in the colony must visit 2 million flowers, fly over 55,000 miles and will be the lifetime work of approximately 300 bees.
  • A single honeybee will only produce approximately 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
  • A single honey bee will visit 50-100 flowers on a single trip out of the hive.
  • Honey is the ONLY food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including water.
  • It would take about 1 ounce of honey to fuel a honeybee's flight around the world.

Beehives

  • A colony may contain 30,000 to 60,000 bees during the late spring or early summer.
  • A honeycomb cell has six sides.
  • Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit in their central brood nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is 120 or -20 degrees.