Ciekawostka: Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life

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A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect from the genus Apis of the largest bee family, Apidae. Honey bees are known for their construction of perennial nests within cavities (i.e. beehives) containing hexagonal cells made of secreted wax, their large colony sizes, and their routine regurgitation of digested carbohydrates as surplus food storage in the form of honey, the lattermost of which distinguishes their hives as a prized foraging target of many mellivorous animals including honey badgers, bears and human hunter-gatherers. Although honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees, they are the bee clade most familiar to huma…

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Environmental and energy assessment of natural gas production in Thailand using life cycle assessment(LCA)technique. In this esearch, environmental and energy assessment of natural gas prodution in Thailand using life cycle assessment (LCA) technique was conducted. The scope covered the data collection (inventory analysis) of input/output of raw materials, energy and all emissions (to air, water and soil) of three gas separation plants (GSP units 1, 2 and 3) at PTT PLC in Map-ta-put, Rayong. The data were compiled and processed by commercial LCA software SimaPro 7.0 in order to assess the environmental impacts in various categories, such as global warming, acidification, etc. Comparisons of…

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Honey as Functional Food and Prospects in Natural Honey Production

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<i>Tropilaelaps mercedesae</i>: an emerging global threat to apiculture - a comprehensive review.. Honey bees ( Apis spp.) are key pollinators in agricultural and natural ecosystems; however, their populations are declining due to multiple interacting stressors and their synergistic effects, including parasitic mites. While Varroa destructor is widely recognized as the primary global driver of colony losses, mites of the genus Tropilaelaps , particularly Tropilaelaps mercedesae , are emerging as a serious and still underestimated threat. Native to Asia and naturally associated with wild hosts such as Apis dorsata , T. mercedesae has successfully transitioned to managed Apis mell…

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Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous. Honey bees stockpile honey in the hive. Within the hive is a structure made from beeswax called honeycomb. The honeycomb is made up of…

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Meliponiculture is the rational farming of stingless bees, or meliponines (Meliponini tribe), which is different from apiculture (the breeding of bees of the Apis mellifera species; western honey bee or European honey bee; Apini tribe). In meliponiculture, the hives can be organized in meliponary, places with suitable conditions of temperature, solar orientation, humidity, and food supply (flowers and resins). The objectives of meliponiculture are to produce and sell hives (or parts of them), honey, pollen, resins, propolis, wax, and other substrates such as attractants and trap nests; in addition to the ecosystem service of pollination itself, since bees are one of the main agents of polli…

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