It's common knowledge that bees collect nectar, which is then turned into honey and stored in the cells you see on the video.
In this video though, you can see a myriad of different colours within the honeycomb. This is pollen that honeybees collect from a variety of different plants. If you look closely when you see a bee on your travels, it may have pollen stored in it's corbiculae, which is basically a little basket on each hind leg. This pollen is taken back into the hive and stored as food to help raise new bees.
When you next see bees carrying pollen, have a look at the colour and see if you can match it up with the plants in the chart opposite. As you can see a lot of these plants grow in the wild, so think carefully when you pull the head off a dandelion flower, as bees forage on them all year round.
When we process honey for eating, small particles of pollen may enter into the honey, thus when people seek out local honey for helping with hay fever, that honey is produced from bees foraging on local plants utilising the nectar and pollen.
The honey in our lip balms use raw natural honey. It may have some pollen and when mixed with our other natural ingredients, it produces a delicious natural, soft lip balm. Please read our reviews www.balmbee.co.uk/reviews
Thanks to Mybeeline for a very descriptive interesting chart www.mybeeline.co.uk
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