Flight Line Apiary

Flight Line Apiary Flight Line Apiary is a small southwest Michigan farm. Inspired by the love of aviation and our hardworking midwest ​heritage, we produce pure Michigan honey.

We feature raw wildflower honey and bees wax.

Honey bees use their sense of smell to detect chemical signals in honey, including pheromones from their environment. Ho...
07/02/2024

Honey bees use their sense of smell to detect chemical signals in honey, including pheromones from their environment. Honey bees have 170 olfactory receptors, which is more than other insects like fruit flies and mosquitoes. Their sense of smell is about 100 times more sensitive than humans’ and allows them to detect scents while in flight.
Bees also have sugar receptors on their antennal tips, mouthparts, and pre-tarsi, as well as internally in their brains and guts. They use their tongues to taste, and can distinguish between sweet, sour, and bitter flavors. Bees are also more sensitive to salts than humans, but less sensitive to bitter flavors.

Honey bees eat honey for a variety of reasons, including:Energy- Honey is a primary source of carbohydrates for bees, pr...
07/02/2024

Honey bees eat honey for a variety of reasons, including:
Energy- Honey is a primary source of carbohydrates for bees, providing them with energy for flight, colony maintenance, and other daily activities.
Storage- Bees store honey in their hives for winter, when there are fewer flowers and bad weather make it difficult for them to forage. A healthy hive needs 30–90 pounds of honey to survive the winter.
Swarming- Bees also eat honey before swarming to give them the energy to build a new nest.
Beeswax- Eating honey also allows worker bees to produce beeswax, which they use to build the six-sided wax combs that store honey, pollen, eggs, larvae, and pupae.
Royal jelly - The queen bee’s diet is richer in honey than other bees, and includes a special mixture of honey and pollen called “royal jelly”. Royal jelly contains fertility stimulants, B vitamins, and other medicines that help the queen remain fertile.

Beekeepers use smoke to calm bees and keep them safe during hive inspection. Smoke interferes with bees sense of smell, ...
07/02/2024

Beekeepers use smoke to calm bees and keep them safe during hive inspection. Smoke interferes with bees sense of smell, which prevents them from reacting to alarming pheromones that signal danger to the hive. This gives the beekeeper an opportunity to work without triggering the colonies defensive response. Smoke can also triggers, bees, instinct, response to wildfires, causing them to fly into the hive and gorge themselves on honey, this can contain the distracted bees while beekeepers work and also make them too full and docile to sting.

Flight Line has some exciting news coming soon to stay tuned!!!!
07/01/2024

Flight Line has some exciting news coming soon to stay tuned!!!!

• HONEY FOR SALE •Please message us if you would like to make a purchase or for quotes. Bottled by Net wt and sold by th...
06/27/2024

• HONEY FOR SALE •

Please message us if you would like to make a purchase or for quotes.

Bottled by Net wt and sold by the oz.

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Honey bees use a variety of methods to navigate back to their hive after foraging, including:Linear landmarks : Bees use...
06/27/2024

Honey bees use a variety of methods to navigate back to their hive after foraging, including:
Linear landmarks : Bees use linear landscape elements to orient themselves, similar to how pilots navigate. They can retrieve flight directions from landmarks when the sun isn’t available.
Spatial memory : Bees are believed to associate navigational decisions with the origin of their flight path, the hive. They can remember flight paths in and out, even up high, because they use them every day.
Polarized light : Bees use polarized light to determine their speed relative to the landscape below them.
Magnetic variations : Bees have an internal device that works like a GPS to orient themselves using magnetic variations.

Honey bees love lavenderHoney bees are attracted to lavender in bloom because they can get nectar and pollen from it. In...
06/27/2024

Honey bees love lavender
Honey bees are attracted to lavender in bloom because they can get nectar and pollen from it. In fact, lavender honey is made from the nectar of lavender flowers.

Honey made from lavender has a distinct flavor
Honey that's made primarily from lavender nectar or pollen will have a floral flavor and retain the natural aromas of the lavender flowers.

Lavender honey has anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, and antifungal properties. It’s also a natural sweetener that can help relieve stress and tension, and is recommended for cases of anxiety, insomnia, and stress headaches. Lavender honey contains luteolin, an antioxidant that can help boost the immune system, promote healthy blood glucose levels, and protect the eyes from UV radiation.

Honey can vary by season, with different colors and flavors, depending on the flowers and plants from which the bees col...
06/27/2024

Honey can vary by season, with different colors and flavors, depending on the flowers and plants from which the bees collect nectar: Spring honey is a pleasant-tasting mild,honey. It is a winter white to, lemon yellow in color and very aromatic. Spring honey is made mainly from the nectar of the black locust trees. This honey is tough to get as the trees are only in flower a few weeks and early spring, and the nectar flow is early in sporadic. Summer honey is usually darker in color and comes from the nectar of Summer flowers like lavender sunflowers and blueberries. Fall also darker in color and comes from the nectar of fall flowers, like Astor and goldenrod.

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06/25/2024

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A single honey bee can pollinate up to 100 flowers during a single flight, but can harvest several thousand flowers in a...
06/25/2024

A single honey bee can pollinate up to 100 flowers during a single flight, but can harvest several thousand flowers in a day by making 12 or more trips. A bee colony can pollinate up to 300 million flowers in a day if every worker bee is pollinating.

A honey bee worker only makes an average of 1/12 of a teaspoon in her lifetime. This jar is 16 oz so that means it took ...
06/25/2024

A honey bee worker only makes an average of 1/12 of a teaspoon in her lifetime. This jar is 16 oz so that means it took 1,152 honey bees to produce this honey.

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