What is a good quality honey? As generally many customer in this world don’t understand what like of good quality honey. Like me also don’t really what like of good quality honey, just believe to honey producer that they will give us a pure honey. Myself often buy a honey directly to honey farmer, because so many producer have mix this honey with many kind of additive.
Pure natural honey are only small quantity can get from the bee nest so many farmer also feel make a financial loss if just sell just a small quantity, so then they mix with some other additive substance, like water, sugar and many others.
Basically good honey quality have an essentially low water content, and will fermented is keep on the container for long time. But by mixing with original honey this mixture really difficult to differ because they are very similar with the original one, may be just chemicals laboratory people can differ that by some of chemical analyzes.
Row honey moisture contain no more than 14 % of water, and usually deemed as more valuable and hence is relatively more costly. Honey containing of up to 20% of water is not recommended for mead making. The honey mixing will no longer have a benefit for our health, we just like drink of sugar concentrates on water.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Bee Diseases
We all know that our health always need this honey that source from bee, all many kind of bees. Honey have benefit for human health, this not just advise by doctor that to consume honey to add our stamina, but also advise by God that is write on their Book like Al-Qur’an. Unfortunately this creature also died when the season is not suitable for their conditions, and also ded after a certain period, below is the research result of this bee live.
Last year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent. The survey included 327 operators who account for 19 percent of the country's approximately 2.44 million commercially managed bee hives. The data is being prepared for submission to a journal.
About 29 percent of the deaths were due to Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious disease that causes adult bees to abandon their hives. Beekeepers who saw CCD in their hives were much more likely to have major losses than those who didn't.
As beekeepers travel with their hives this spring to pollinate crops around the country, it's clear the insects are buckling under the weight of new diseases, pesticide drift and old enemies like the parasitic varroa mite, said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the group.
This is the second year the association has measured colony deaths across the country. This means there aren't enough numbers to show a trend, but clearly bees are dying at unsustainable levels and the situation is not improving, said vanEngelsdorp, also a bee expert with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania's Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff announced that the state would pour an additional $20,400 into research at Pennsylvania State University looking for the causes of CCD. This raises emergency funds dedicated to investigating the disease to $86,000.
The issue also has attracted federal grants and funding from companies that depend on honey bees, including ice-cream maker Haagen-Dazs. Because the berries, fruits and nuts that give about 28 of Haagen-Daazs' varieties flavor depend on honey bees for pollination, the company is donating up to $250,000 to CCD and sustainable pollination research at Penn State and the University of California, Davis.
Last year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent. The survey included 327 operators who account for 19 percent of the country's approximately 2.44 million commercially managed bee hives. The data is being prepared for submission to a journal.
About 29 percent of the deaths were due to Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious disease that causes adult bees to abandon their hives. Beekeepers who saw CCD in their hives were much more likely to have major losses than those who didn't.
As beekeepers travel with their hives this spring to pollinate crops around the country, it's clear the insects are buckling under the weight of new diseases, pesticide drift and old enemies like the parasitic varroa mite, said Dennis vanEngelsdorp, president of the group.
This is the second year the association has measured colony deaths across the country. This means there aren't enough numbers to show a trend, but clearly bees are dying at unsustainable levels and the situation is not improving, said vanEngelsdorp, also a bee expert with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania's Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff announced that the state would pour an additional $20,400 into research at Pennsylvania State University looking for the causes of CCD. This raises emergency funds dedicated to investigating the disease to $86,000.
The issue also has attracted federal grants and funding from companies that depend on honey bees, including ice-cream maker Haagen-Dazs. Because the berries, fruits and nuts that give about 28 of Haagen-Daazs' varieties flavor depend on honey bees for pollination, the company is donating up to $250,000 to CCD and sustainable pollination research at Penn State and the University of California, Davis.
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