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Posted: 9/28/2004 12:44:29 PM EDT

Can you make honey at home, or do you have to have some bees?

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:45:14 PM EDT

[#1]

me thinks one needs bees.

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:46:18 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Can you make honey at home, or do you have to have some bees?

You're joking, right?

Bees or none at all. It's the only way.

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:46:35 PM EDT

[#3]

Thats what we figured, but we thought that if anyone would know it would be ARFCOM!

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:46:53 PM EDT

[#4]

yeah what the hell i'm going with bee's too.

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:51:31 PM EDT

[#5]

How do Bees Make Honey?

Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is almost 80% water with some complex sugars. In fact, if you have ever pulled a honeysuckle blossom out of its stem, nectar is the clear liquid that drops from the end of the blossom. In North America, bees get nectar from flowers like clovers, dandelions, berry bushes and fruit tree blossoms. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey.

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:51:36 PM EDT

[#6]

Honey is made of bee poo....

Posted: 9/28/2004 12:55:29 PM EDT

[#7]

Tupelo Honey

You can take all the tea in china
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

You can’t stop us on the road to freedom
You can’t keep us ’cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

You can’t stop us on the road to freedom
You can’t stop us ’cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

You know she’s alright
You know she’s alright with me
She’s alright, she’s alright (she’s an angel)

You can take all the tea in china
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail it right around the seven oceans
Drop it smack dab in the middle of the deep blue sea
Because she’s as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like the honey, baby, from the bee
She’s my baby, you know she’s alright.....

by Van Morrison

Ask the beekeeper for advice in all your honey needs.

Eric The(Nostalgic)Hun

Posted: 9/28/2004 1:05:24 PM EDT

[#8]

Well since honey is bee spit --
I guess you need bees.

Posted: 9/28/2004 1:21:02 PM EDT

[#9]

Posted: 9/28/2004 1:30:46 PM EDT

[#10]

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Wow!

That pic must be from Finland, as 'MESI' is the Finnish word for 'honey'!

What a deal!

Eric The(Cunning..GuyWithLinquisticAbilities)Hun

Posted: 9/28/2004 1:33:20 PM EDT

[#11]

To make your own honey at home, first you have to build a teleportation machine as in "The Fly" with Vincent price.

Then put your most troublesome child in the machine along with a fat honey bee and teleport him across the room.

Take your new creation to the Florist shop late at night and let your child indulge in the flowers. Take him home and have him vomit into a bucket. You now have your own homemade honey.

-Nick Viejo.

Posted: 9/28/2004 1:42:12 PM EDT

[#12]

From the title, I thought this was about pie.

Posted: 9/28/2004 1:53:25 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Can you make honey at home, or do you have to have some bees?

You're joking, right?

Bees or none at all. It's the only way.

In my left hand, I have "12 year old" in my right I have insitagor from the DU.....which hand do you choose?

Posted: 9/28/2004 2:49:50 PM EDT

[#14]

You don't "make" honey,you collect it if you have bees or can find some. The bees do the "makeing".

Posted: 9/28/2004 2:54:18 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Can you make honey at home, or do you have to have some bees?

That is like asking me if I can build you a dog.

Posted: 9/28/2004 3:35:49 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Honey is made of bee poo....

Bee backwash

Posted: 9/28/2004 3:39:26 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Can you make honey at home, or do you have to have some bees?

That is like asking me if I can build you a dog.

Enough with the questions, can you build the damn dog or not?

Posted: 9/28/2004 3:51:36 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Can you make honey at home, or do you have to have some bees?

That is like asking me if I can build you a dog.

Enough with the questions, can you build the damn dog or not?

Yes but I am on backorder for parts, check back in 3 weeks.

Posted: 9/28/2004 4:22:55 PM EDT

[#19]

All through my childhood the guy who owned the empty house next door kept numerous bee hives there. Our "compensation" for having to put up with his bees was an endless supply of the fresh honey he processed on his own equipment in the backyard.

Since I only stepped on one bee during my entire childhood we thought it was a pretty sweet deal!

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