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Honey bees are herbivores; they eat nectar and honey. Larvae eat pollen and royal jelly, which is secreted by worker bees. The queen bee lays all of the eggs for her hive — sometimes more than 1500 a day. The eggs, laid in the cells of the honeycomb, hatch in three days. Queen bees live for one to three years, while workers and drones live for about five weeks. A healthy bee colony can have as many as 100,000 bees. Worker bees communicate with a dance, indicating the distance to and direction of a nectar source. The drone's only function is to mate with the queen. Worker bees maintain the temperature of the hive by beating their wings. Only worker bees can produce the wax used to build the hive. Maltese honey has been mentioned since Ancient Times and it was famous in the Mediterranean. The Roman orator Cicero, who was a lawyer who defended the Maltese against Caius Verres a corrupt Governor, listed four hundred jars of honey as part of the things which the corrupt Governor Caius Verres had stolen from Malta. In Rome, the Roman Senate have found Caius guilty and sent him into exile. It continues to figure throughout history not only as a sweetener but also for medicinal purposes. Today, it is a flourishing trade after a period where the bee colonies were under threat from a parasitic mite. Bee keepers are always on the alert for such attacks as one attack can decimate a whole bee-hive. One problem which seems to worry Maltese bee keepers is the introduction of a new breed of honey bee which produces less honey and the produce is not as good as the traditional Maltese honey. - MALTA |
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| Author | KNOW MALTA by Peter Grima |
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