This afternoon, I went to Sukabumi, West Java, to visit our bee farm. Have you ever been to bee farm? We have 300 boxes of bee colony. One box consists of 40-60 bees. So we have around 12.000-18.000 bees! :) To tell you the truth, at the beginning, I was a little bit afraid of the bee sting. But apparently the bees was nice enough that they didn't fly around and just stick together in their comb.
The bee farm is located near by corn plantation. In rainy season, not many plants produce flower, except corn. Bees hardly get nectar and pollen as their food from flowers in this season. That's why we move the colony from Central Java, where they usually collect nectar and pollen from "kapok" plantation to Sukabumi, where the bees can get abundance source of pollen from corn plantation.
When my father showed me the life of bees, I found it amazing. One colony consists of 40-60 bees and they only have one queen whose job is laying eggs for the rest of her life. An ordinary worker bee can only life for about 30-40 days. But queen bee can survive 2-4 years! Each bee has specific job description and they will do the same job for the rest of their life.. (Hmm that reminds me of the film "Bee Movies")
A queen bee eats royal jelly for the rest of her life. Actually ordinary bees also eat royal jelly, but they only get it in their first 3 days of life. The rest of their life they will eat honey and pollen. Can you see how powerful royal jelly is?
The bee farm is located near by corn plantation. In rainy season, not many plants produce flower, except corn. Bees hardly get nectar and pollen as their food from flowers in this season. That's why we move the colony from Central Java, where they usually collect nectar and pollen from "kapok" plantation to Sukabumi, where the bees can get abundance source of pollen from corn plantation.
When my father showed me the life of bees, I found it amazing. One colony consists of 40-60 bees and they only have one queen whose job is laying eggs for the rest of her life. An ordinary worker bee can only life for about 30-40 days. But queen bee can survive 2-4 years! Each bee has specific job description and they will do the same job for the rest of their life.. (Hmm that reminds me of the film "Bee Movies")
A queen bee eats royal jelly for the rest of her life. Actually ordinary bees also eat royal jelly, but they only get it in their first 3 days of life. The rest of their life they will eat honey and pollen. Can you see how powerful royal jelly is?
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