Amazing Honey Bees

Honey bees, thousands of them, chose to build a home in the ceiling of the covered parking area at one of my elevated condo rentals.  Today Bill Turner from Turner Family Honey & Bees came to re locate them. He took a section of the ceiling down exposing the hive. It was made of multiple layers of wax comb.

Each cell was filled with honey. He removed the bees into a box and handed me a honey comb. It was a piece about the size of my hand. I put it to my lips and bit off a peice. It was the sweetest and one of the most perfect things in nature I'd ever seen. Bill told me that honey is a "perfect food". That one can live on honey alone. That it never spoils or goes bad. He said that honey was found in a jar in a pyramid thousands of years old still good.

I have heard that honey bees are not as plentiful as they once were. That they are in trouble. Also I've heard that they're so valuable to so many crops because of polination. Bill Turners slogan is "we will never ever Kill the Honey Bees.
You know this bee guy Bill was handling them and the sections of wax with hundreds of bees on and was never getting stung. He said it was because when a bee stings the bee dies and so he wants to make sure that when he does sting it is a necessary thing because it means his life. And that somehow the thousands of bees there knew he was not a threat.

O and while I watched him, guess what, he found what he called the Queen. He showed me. It was about two, three times the size of the others. He was so excited that he'd found her because now, he said, all the bees that he was moving would stay together.

                   Queen Bee in box
I was grateful for the opportunity to see this up close and witness one of Natures little miracles. Turner Family Honey & Bees is on Facebook. Look them up.                      https://www.facebook.com/TurnerFamilyHoneyandBees