Honey Glossary

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A

ANTHER
The area where pollen is developed and contained in a plant.

Apiarist

APIARIST
A beekeeper.

APIARY
Where several bee colonies are kept in one place.

B

BEEHIVE
A place where a bee colony dwells.

BEESWAX
Secreted wax from the underside glands of the bee abdomen; bees mold the wax to form honeycomb.

C

COLONY
A community of tens of thousands of worker bees, usually containing one queen, with or
without drones.

COMB HONEY
Honey presented in its original wax comb.

CRYSTALLIZATION
Honey is a supersaturated solution. Crystals will develop in honey when glucose crystallizes out of solution. Crystallization of honey is most rapid at 57 Degree F.

D

Drone DRONE
A male bee.

E

EXTRACTED HONEY
Honey removed from the comb by a special machine called an extractor and sold in liquid or crystallized form.

EXTRACTOR
A machine that rotates honeycomb with great speed to remove honey.

H

HIVE
A man-made structure for bees.
Honey

HONEY
The nectar and sweet deposits from plants as gathered, modified and stored in honeycomb by honey bees.

Bee HONEY BEE
An insect with three pairs of legs, four wings, a stinger and a special stomach which holds nectar. The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.

HONEYCOMB
Hexagonal beeswax cells built by honey bees.

N

NECTAR
The sweet secretion from flowers of various plants.

P

PISTIL
A flower's central organ that contains the stigma, style and ovary.

Pollen POLLEN
The male reproductive cells of flowers. Bees collect pollen to use as food for their young. It is the protein part of a bee's diet.

POLLINATION
Bee The fertilization of a flowering plant. The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of that or another flower.