If you can read this, it may well be because our earliest ancestors added honey in their diets. Forget the merits of fish as “Brain Food”, protohumans may have sought out honey We know that Bonobo Chimpanzees, our nearest relatives by DNA, forage for honey. They prefer to raid the local stingless bees for preference, […]

Many people think that the runny liquid state of honey that you see in the commercials is the only, natural and preferred form when it’s actually a matter of taste. This mistake bemuses beekeepers greatly, because real honey will set on you surprisingly quickly. It hasn’t gone off if your once runny jar of golden

: “For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.” ‘ Henry V’ (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187 It is interesting that an apparent fascination for bees is being suggested as a disproof of a real world Shakespearian narrative. With

: Although we tend to think of pollinators in terms of daylight visitors to flowering plants, like bees and butterflies, we really should spare more than the occasional thought for the night shift. Although moths do not carry out as many visits to flowers during the hours of darkness as bees, et al, do during

A short and sweet blog post. We chose our name, Gwenyn Maes Chwarel, “the Quarry Field Bees” in English, because of the Quarry Field Apiary which is a carpet of bluebells in Spring.

With a bit of luck, Gwenyn Maes Chwarel Honey could help to prove a scientific hypothesis. Can the enzymes in honey help people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Third year Swansea University Pharmacology student Diana Abousheishaa will carry out chemical analyses of a samples of honey from a small number of providers with known provenance, and