Homelands Honey

Homelands Honey We are a small business selling natural raw honey and handmade soaps and beeswax candles.

As it’s been raining so much the last few days I decided to clean the recoverd beeswax from my hives.
30/03/2024

As it’s been raining so much the last few days I decided to clean the recoverd beeswax from my hives.

Why is it that only drones show the white-eyed mutation, but not the workers bees? The answer lies in how recessive gen...
25/06/2021

Why is it that only drones show the white-eyed mutation, but not the workers bees? The answer lies in how recessive genes work.

Among bees in a hive, drone bees are more apt to express mutations from recessive genes than other bees. A drone bee is unique and different from the two types of female bees (workers and queen bees) in that it is developed from an unfertilized egg. As a result, a drone bee has only one set of chromosomes – effectively only one parent. Therefore, with only one set of chromosomes, recessive genes can be expressed more readily without being overridden by a corresponding dominant gene.

Natural Raw Honey now available..
19/06/2021

Natural Raw Honey now available..

22/03/2021

We have unfortunately sold out of honey for the moment but the girls are out on nice days building up after winter. We should have some more honey for sale by the end of May providing the weather is good. 🤞🤞

Lovely to see the bees out collecting pollen today
22/02/2021

Lovely to see the bees out collecting pollen today

21/12/2020

It’s the shortest day of the year yet the bees are busy. Some are managing to collect bits of pollen.

As the weather has not been good for gardening I decided to process the beeswax cappings I got from the honey which I e...
03/10/2020

As the weather has not been good for gardening I decided to process the beeswax cappings I got from the honey which I extracted in August. Firstly the cappings need washing, then they are melted over a pan of hot water. Once melted this gets poured into a container where most of the dirt or ‘slumgum’ as it’s called, sinks to the bottom. This is then scrapped off as much as possible but the wax still needs to be melted again and filtered to remove any smaller particles. Once this is done the wax is then ready to be poured into moulds or plastic containers ready for me to use for making candles or as an ingredient in my soaps. 🐝

Mother and daughter 🐝
27/07/2020

Mother and daughter 🐝

Spot the queens!! Yes there are two, mother and daughter. This is called a perfect supersedure.
17/07/2020

Spot the queens!! Yes there are two, mother and daughter. This is called a perfect supersedure.

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