Honey Facts:

• Honest-to-goodness Northern Virginia wildflower honey is particularly delicious and uniquely healthy for consumers in the Washington DC suburbs.
• There are many different colors and flavors of honey because bees collect nectar from many kinds of flowering plants.
• True, raw Northern Virginia wildflower honey is pretty much priceless. It's hard to find at any price because hardly any is produced.

Honeybee Facts:

• Honeybees are very good for the Northern Virginia environment. They're the best pollinators on the planet. When they're around, orchards and vegetable gardens produce more and bigger fruits and vegetables and flowers are more plentiful and beautiful. The more honeybees, the merrier.
• Honeybees are struggling. Think about it: You just don't see them anymore. Over the last 20 years, wild honeybees in Northern Virginia (as in all of America) have been almost completely wiped out by the forces of globalization. The only honeybees remaining in Virginia are those managed by local beekeepers. And, in 2007, even managed honeybees began to mysteriously disappear from their hives.
• Honeybees eat pollen to get protein. Field bees collect pollen from flowers and carry it back to the hive to be stored in food cells in pollen baskets on their legs. Extra pollen sticks to their boy hairs and antennae. This pollen is carried to all other plants a honeybee visits. Pollen movement is important because many plants need pollen from other plants of their species in order to reproduce. Honeybees pollinate plants by carrying grains of pollen from one plant to another.
• A honeybee has to fly about 13,000 miles to make a pound of honey. That's four times the distance across the United States.