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United States Department of Agriculture has approved the first ever vaccine for Honeybees. The vaccine developed is the first for any insect in USA.

American foulbrood disease is a fatal bacterial disease that spread quickly from hive to hive and can destroy honeybee colonies. Previous solution for this disease was to burn down the entire infected colony and the associated equipment. This vaccine is going to be a great relief for the American beekeepers.

Dalan Animal Health is a Athens, Georgia, USA based company that had developed a prophylactic vaccine aims to protects honeybees from American foulbrood. Diamond Animal Health is a manufacturer that is collaborating with Dalan Animal Health, has been awarded the license for the production of vaccine from USDA.

The development of a vaccine comes at a crucial time for honeybees, which are essential to the world's food supply but are also in danger of extinction globally due to disease, habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change.

The honeybee vaccination is not provided via syringe injection like other vaccines. In fact, the vaccine is incorporated into royal jelly which is a sugar based food given to queen bees. In a hive, only queen bee produces the eggs. Once they ingest it, the vaccine gets deposited in their ovaries, providing immunity to developing larvae as they hatch.

This is a significant improvement for beekeepers, who till now use to treat hives with antibiotics, which have a limited efficacy and take a lot of time and effort to apply.

Annette Kleiser, the chief executive of Dalan, said that the organization is aware about the market needs and the new technologies to support changing practices. The U.S.D.A. has advised the company to adopt a conditional path in order to market this product as soon as possible.

Dalan in a statement said that the vaccine will be available for purchase in the United States in 2023

Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/07/us/honeybee-vaccine-usda-approval-scn-trnd/index.html

On a journey towards making the country environment friendly, Oman takes a strong step by imposing ban on import of plastic bags with effect from 1st January 2023.

Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Investment Promotion (MOCIIP) issued the order number 519/2022 that prohibited companies, institutions, and individuals from importing plastic bags to the country. The order also made a provision of punishment for violating this ban. A fine of 1000 OMR for breaching the ban for the first time and double the amount on repeating it.

This step has been welcomed by Rumaitha Al Busaidi, a leading environment activists. In support of this ban she said that it would go a long way in preserving the Omani environment from pollution and waste harmful to the rich marine life and wildlife. She appreciated the efforts made by Oman to fulfill its commitment of achieving its net-zero target by 2050.

It should be noted that the Environment Authority of Oman had already implemented the ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in January 2021.

Dr. Mohammed Al Kasbi, director of chemicals and wastes management at the Environment Authority said that The EA along with other stakeholders have concrete plans to make Oman one of the leading environment-friendly countries in the world.

Oman is a signatory to Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal.

Oman is one of many countries in the Middle East region working towards reducing its dependency on single-use plastics that are responsible for the death of thousands of marine animals who getting killed each year either by ingesting plastic or getting tangled in it.

Dr. Al Kasbi said that Eliminating plastic bags is one of the challenges that the ministry seeks to overcome in cooperation with the concerned authorities. In addition to this the ministry also provides specification to manufacturers and suppliers with good alternative to plastic bags

Although the ban will not affect the plastic production facilities within the country. In fact, the decision intends to help local plastic production units to fulfill the local market demands. This will limit the unfair competition from imported products that do not meet environmental standards. In a step further, Oman had already replaced single-use bags with thicker 50-micron bags.

Source :  https://timesofoman.com/article/125120-ban-on-imported-plastic-bags-to-help-in-safeguarding-omans-environment

On the occasion of New Year Day, it was revealed that the Dubai is now producing 14% of its power through clean energy.

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), announced that the production capacity of clean energy in Dubai has reached 2,027 megawatts (MW) using photovoltaic solar power (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP). This is about 14 per cent of Dubai’s total power production capacity of 14,517 MW.

Al Tayer made this announcement during a visit to Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. It is a project of DEWA and is the largest single-site solar park in the world using the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model. It will have a production capacity of 5,000 MW by 2030, using PV solar panels and CSP.

Al Tayer inspected progress on the fourth phase of the park and met with the employees of the project who are trained on clean energy. This phase is being implemented by Noor Energy. DEWA owns 51 per cent of the company while ACWA Power holds 25 per cent, and the Silk Road Fund owns 24 per cent.

Al Tayer also inspected the fifth phase of the solar park that is to be commissioned in 2023.  It uses the latest solar photovoltaic bifacial technologies with Single Axis Tracking to increase energy production. It will provide clean energy for more than 270,000 residences in Dubai and reduce 1.18 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.

The fourth phase of the solar park is the largest single-site solar CSP plant in the world. It will have a capacity of 950 MW and investments amounting to Dh15.78 billion. It combines CSP and solar photovoltaic technologies and is build according to the IPP model. This phase uses three hybrid technologies: 600MW from a parabolic basin complex (three units of 200MW each), 100MW from the world’s tallest solar power tower at 262.44 metres (based on Molten Salt technology), and 250MW from photovoltaic solar panels.

On completion, the project will have the largest thermal storage capacity in the world. This will allow the energy availability around the clock. The fourth phase will provide clean energy to about 320,000 residences and will reduce 1.6 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.

Al Tayer said the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and Dubai Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy 2050 will provide 100 per cent of Dubai’s total power production capacity from clean energy sources by 2050. 

Source :  https://gulfnews.com/uae/environment/dubai-now-produces-14-of-power-through-clean-energy-1.92974265

A study has found that Climate impact labels on foods such as red meat are an effective way to get people to stop choosing options that negatively affect the planet

Policymakers have been debating on how to discourage people from choosing heavy carbon food options. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had urged world leaders to support a transition to sustainable, healthy, low-emissions diets.

In the UK, Henry Dimbleby, the food tsar, recently said it was politically impossible for a government to tell people to stop eating as much meat. About 85% of agricultural land in England is used as grazing pasture for animals or to grow fodder to feed livestock. Dimbleby believes that 30% meat reduction over 10 years is required for land to be used sustainably in England, while Greenpeace argues for a 70% reduction.

A recent clinical trial suggest that consumers respond well to climate labelling on their foods. Participants in the study were shown a fast food menu and were asked to select one item that they would like to order for dinner. Participants were randomized to view menus with one of three labels: a quick response code label on all items (control group); green low–climate impact label on chicken, fish or vegetarian items (positive framing); or red high–climate impact label on red meat items (negative framing).

The low–climate impact condition menu stated: “This item is environmentally sustainable. It has low greenhouse gas emissions and a low contribution to climate change.” The high–climate impact condition menu said: “This item is not environmentally sustainable. It has high greenhouse gas emissions and a high contribution to climate change.”

On comparing the participants in controlled group, it was found that 23.5 % more participants selected the environmentally sustainable items when menu label displayed high–climate impact and 9.9% more participants selected the environmentally sustainable items when menu label displayed low–climate impact. Along with this the participants who ordered sustainable items rated their order healthier than those who selected the non-sustainable order.

The Study authors from John Hopkins and Harvard Universities states that Animal-based food production, primarily driven by beef production, is responsible for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is an important modifiable contributor to climate change.

In the United States, particularly red meat consumption, consistently exceeds recommended levels based on national dietary guidelines. Shifting the current dietary patterns towards more sustainable diets with lower amount of red meat consumed could reduce diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by up to 55%.”

The authors said that labelling red meat items with negatively framed or red high–climate impact labels was more effective at increasing sustainable selections than labelling non–red meat items with positively framed or green low–climate impact labels.

They found that telling people that a food type had negative environmental impacts was more effective than informing them that a food was a more sustainable choice.

Source :  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/climate-impact-labels-could-help-people-eat-less-red-meat

Honey has held a very important place in human health since ancient times. Lately people have opted again for honey and replacing refined sugar from their homes. Pure honey is the ultimate source of nutrients and natural sweetener.

Since the customers are not aware of authentic honey, they are buying what is available in the market. Raw honey without adulteration is something very difficult to get from the market. As consumers are not aware that what they are getting is not authentic honey. Since lack of awareness is the major reason for what we are getting is not pure. Even the big brands locally or internationally are not serving pure honey. So it’s time to educate yourself to know what is real and fake honey.

Having adulterated or filtered honey is equally worse than having refined sugar. Not all honey is created equal, major honey available in the market is not similar to raw honey. They may claim that it's 100% pure and lab tested. However since many tests don’t provide the real ingredients. Many tests just tell the level of fructose and sucrose.

Most of the consumers depend on the brand's advertisement, their marketing tactics and they forgot the basics. How could the honey they are consuming be so cheap? Do you know how many grams of honey can be produced by a single honey bee (worker) in their entire lifespan? Not even a single spoon.

To collect one pound honey, honey bees need to fly 50000 miles and approx 2 million flowers. Imagine how one can get a pound of PURE HONEY in barely as minimum as $10?

There are many surveys available online from various countries , that even up-to 80% of honey sold in the market are fake. Many big brands of honey were importing synthetic sugar syrups from China for adulteration. In 2020 there was an investigation in India and found that out of 13 brands, 10 brands failed purity tests. But still consumers are buying the same, as consumers compromising with their health for the sake of saving some money.

Many companies add High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in honey, which is not good for human health. As HFCS is cheap and easy to handle, it's even used by Bee Keeper for their bees as nectar in the low time of nectar supplies. HFCS has been linked with many diseases like diabetes, obesity etc.

The filtered honey or adulterated honey is not good for health. They do not contain valuable nutrients which raw honey contains. The unadulterated honey contains pollen as well, which is a good source of nutrients and has many benefits.

Before buying honey make sure their honey has all the purity test certificates, compare the price of it. Check the grade it belongs to. Check whether it's monofloral or multi floral honey. Monofloral honey possesses more benefits and is more expensive than multifloral honey. Monofloral honey like – Acacia honey, buckwheat honey, jarrah honey, linden honey, lavender honey, avocado honey etc.

Imported Honey:
Many honey brands either purchase from local bee keepers or import from top honey producers country. This imported honey sometimes contains chemicals like chloramphenicol, which is harmful for human health and has many side-effects. If buying from international companies make sure they fulfil all the purity criteria and are mainly selling honey, not other products. 

Organic Honey:
Getting organic honey is extremely difficult as the bees fly in miles to gather the nectar. Though many companies claim to be organic. You need to check with their production and source of collecting honey. As worker bees fly miles away and if they get nectar from pesticides plants, it won't count as organic honey. Still if any bee hive comes under the 20sq. Mile. Then there are chances of having organic honey.

Honey Online:
With advanced technology, now we prefer everything online, be its clothing or food. So consumers are also buying honey online from various e-commerce platforms. The prices range from cheap to very expensive. The above mentioned thing applies to online purchasing of honey as well. With many giant e-commerce available, consumers mainly go for the cheaper one, with lots of deals and offers. They assume that they are having a good lifestyle, as they think they are consuming pure.
We at Geohoney, considering all these factors, started a green initiative and become the only global pollination company in the world who uses AI and patented monofloral technology to produce high quality, pure and raw honey for the real honey consumers.
We have over 70 bee farms around the world with monofloral technology from which we are producing over 200 types of honey varieties. With all the lab test certificates, delivering the authentic honey worldwide. Our beehive is 10 times more costly than normal beehives, which helps in getting the monofloral honey.
We serve our honey in a glass jar, which keeps the shelf life longer. Also we are a Greentech company which initiates pollination and planting trees and plants for high quality honey and helping the environment by reducing carbon emission. Geohoney is the symbol of Purity and Unfiltered Honey Brand in the world. 

We are the only  company with an exclusive app for honey. Apart from selling honey we are spreading awareness and saving the bees and environment.

How is Geohoney playing a role in saving the environment?

Geohoney is a pollination and Greentech company established in 2017, in Dubai, UAE, globally working to save the honeybees (natural pollinators) and thus, our planet. Since childhood, the founder of Geohoney, Mr. Basem Barry, was a true nature enthusiast and always wanted to contribute something for the betterment of the planet, which eventually led to the evolution of Geohoney. Bees play a significant role in nurturing the environment and protecting our planet. It started as a honey brand, later turned into a pollination company, and now is expanding its reach to provide other healthy products. They are trying to make the world take smaller steps towards a healthier and greener goal, that is slipping off our hands with every passing day, with its sustainable approaches.

What is the story of Geohoney's Founder and B.A Barry Group?

Mr. Basem Barry, the founder of Geohoney is an Entrepreneur, Business Scout, Strategist, and Serial Businessman with over 24 years of business experience. He has record achievements and milestones in many business industries. Moreover, has worked for different multinational companies in thirteen countries.

Mr. Barry, CEO of the B.A. Barry Group began his career as a Relations officer & Investor in different business domains of multinational companies over the world. Such vast experience enhanced his knowledge and power & provided him with a visionary outlook to expand his business to six companies under the B.A. Barry Group, where Geohoney is the biggest one.

B.A. Barry Group has offered successful services to more than 311 satisfied corporate clients and 21,428 satisfied individual clients in the FMCG, supply chain sourcing, Stocklat, banking, and logistical industries. Their specialized and vast knowledge enables them in running different businesses successfully. Their unique business models and great work ethics allow them to provide investors with everything that's been promised.

Geohoney is said to be a modern savior of bees and our planet. How?

"Geohoney", the concept behind its name comes from two words "Geo" and "Honey", where the prior word is a Greek word, which means the earth. The founder of Geohoney always appreciated the beauty of these tiny creatures, the work they do & the sweetness they create. The love made this a beautiful journey of protecting the bees & selling the honey successfully, by making it a leading honey company globally.

Geohoney understands earth and nature & is always working towards making the earth a healthier & better place. Mr. Barry has studied the plantation over the world & has a strong vision to produce thousands of honey types with a variety of plants present in nature. To implement this, they are working with numerous beekeepers from diverse regions worldwide. It brings rich quality, 100% organic, pure, unadulterated, uncolored, additives-free, certified, wild honey from six continents & intends to preserve the planet's biodiversity, nourish and take care of the people by delivering the purest honey of more than 300 types.

What makes Geohoney a Leading Brand and how it outshines other players in the field?

Geohoney is a standalone venture, its raw monofloral bee products, and honey is giving prominent results in treating different illnesses because of the rich content of fundamental supplements & restorative properties. Geohoney enhances the environment in a 5km radius, around every apiary it deploys. Every time it deploys its special monofloral hives, the beekeepers witness enhanced production, farmers have a fruitful harvest, livestock gets more food, and landowners see more greenery.

Geohoney has become the best by establishing a completely transparent system for the potential customers to know everything right from the nectar source to warnings, benefits, & ingredients. Each product is handled with care & hygiene from farms to your doorstep, keeping all natural properties intact.

Lack of safe habitat is one of the dangerous threats tiny pollinators are facing, but Geohoney is countering that by creating habitat corridors, which are safe for bees & are covered with plants, rich in nectar & pollen.

It also makes sure to tackle bees in the safest manner, and helps them in thriving. Moreover, avoids treating the bee gardens & green spaces with synthetics. The brand makes sure to use all-natural solutions & organic products to aid bees' health & keep parasites away from the hives. Honey bees play a pivotal role in the lives of humans & ecosystems, these efforts by Geohoney are found to be making an impact in protecting extinct vulnerable bee populations.

How is Geohoney making use of Technological Advancements to increase its worldwide monofloral honey supply?

Geohoney is a successful brand because of the technology it is using and its plans to adopt the latest technologies. Sustainable bee-keeping technologies, monofloral agri-technology, precision bee-keeping, & use of drones for monitoring the hives, are some of them they have been using to expand their honey production.

It is one of the major monofloral honey producers which uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence green technologies. In addition, they have set up numerous monofloral hives in hundreds of locations globally to let bees pollinate numerous plants.

Using their latest monofloral agri-technology, they are working to increase the current world supply of monofloral honey from 2 to 100 million metric tonnes by 2033.

The patented agri-tech initiatives have been beneficial to several challenges faced by the beekeeping sector. It has also led the way to disrupt the age-old beekeeping system with affordable solutions and innovative ideas.

Moreover, Geohoney's user-friendly app & website are perfect to enhance customer experience & provide easy ordering.

Is Geohoney's Monofloral Technology a Savior for the environment & the bees?

They are the first to bring new-patented monofloral agri-tech initiatives into the beekeeping industry. With their monofloral technology, they are saving the bees that will in turn save us. As bees are critical to ensure pollination and food security. Many people are unaware of bees and beekeeping, that it can help preserve habitats, protect watersheds, and improve soil health, and water quality.

Where is Geohoney now, in terms of growth?

Geohoney is a company with a scope of business aligning in areas of Global Bee Pollination, Global Monofloral Initiatives, & Environmental sustainability. They are already encouraging local communities to plant and grow more flowers, educating and asking them to buy native plant species that bloom throughout the year, to offer bees rich nectar sources.

Also, focusing on developing single blossoms (simple corolla & one ring of petals) rather than double blossoms. As, single blossoms contain comparatively more nectar and pollen, less thick, all that makes it easier for honey bees to reach the pollen, which would make pollination effective. Where pollination plays a critical role in the food supply. It is also replacing polyfloral hives with monofloral hives, increasing worldwide monofloral honey production by 20 times.

The hives designed by them are such that they can save 20% of the energy of bees, usually spent on cooling & heating the hive. Such a feature, helps bees' colonies to grow bigger & last longer and thus offering more pollination hours.

Are there any Future Goals that Geohoney will be aiming for?

Co-branding is one of the major goals that Geohoney aims to achieve in the near future. With increased production that comes with more monofloral hives, technological progression, and expansion, there will be more tie-ups with local and global food companies. In such tie-ups, they can use monofloral honey for their products and replace plain sugar.

The ultimate goal of Geohoney is to protect various bee species & the planet. Their aim is to deploy monofloral agri-tech in 10,000 locations by the end of 2030, to reduce carbon footprints on the earth. Moreover, its mission is to boost honey production to 2 to 100 million metric tonnes by 2033 with the integration of the latest AI technologies & innovations.

What are the achievements & milestones, Geohoney has claimed?

They have patented monofloral technology and are a verified member of the world intellectual properties organization WIPO. Also, they have gained positive testimonials from customers all across the world. Commencing Oct 2022, it started to reach out via media coverage and exposure. Also, they will announce big awards and milestones in due course.

Are there any proprietorships that Geohoney holds?

Geohoney holds over 120 bee-keeping farms in 44 countries around the world. It sells almost 280 types of honey and the monofloral honey supply is approx. 47,000 MT. The number of beekeepers currently working under Geohoney is 57,000. Also, it supplies over 226 SKU products after filling & packaging at 3 working facilities through 6 global dispatch points. There are around 1,155 suppliers and has served 566,000 satisfied customers to date. Moreover, it has 4 patents and WIPO, the paid-up capital is about 64.12M USD. Furthermore, you can buy Geohoney products through App, Online & 53 POS. It is accredited by CE, ISO, FDA, HACCP, ENAS, ILAC, ETC.

How is Geohoney Contributing to the world?

Fascinating pollinators named bees have a huge contribution to agriculture. Henceforth, if the bees die then the world will face significant effects. As per a research study, just 2% of honeybees contribute to almost 80% of global crop pollination. Eighty percent of the agricultural system will collapse if this small bee population disappears.

Moreover, humans' food requirements would suffer greatly, if they disappeared. The variety of food products would diminish, and there would be surging in certain product costs. Many foods, like onions, avocados, apples, and other types of berries heavily rely on bees and pollination. More than 711 people faced hunger in the year 2020, Geohoney spreads knowledge to switch to healthy diets and nurture stronger communities to become more food secure.

Geohoney supports local beekeepers who face problems in selling their products and provides them the platform to sell their products to those who value nutrition, health, and sustainability.

It also focuses and works towards the purpose of saving the bees, nature, and the planet by making a positive impact on the environment. It saves bee populations by planting diverse flowering species, supporting local beekeepers, and avoiding pesticides. Moreover, they are trying to educate many people about the importance of honeybees in the environment and human lives.

It educates and supports the local communities to reduce waste and carbon footprints so that the environment can be sustainable and balanced over time.

The world is seeing a lot of climate change every day and so we need bees to help the plants survive. Geohoney contributes to growing plantations through its honeybees that keep the waterways clean, produce oxygen and keep the air fresh, prevent soil erosion, and absorb CO2, which reverses global climate change. Geohoney is trying to make our environment cleaner and healthier to survive.

They also lead many awareness drives among people in order to protect these important pollinating creatures. Honeybees are in a vulnerable position in many places around the world, some have already gone extinct and others are on the verge of it. Moreover, many populations lose their adult bees due to colony collapse disorder caused by pesticide and herbicide use.

Furthermore, the decline in honeybees can disturb the ecosystem balance as they indirectly affect the growth of many plants on which various organisms are dependent. Geohoney's working process and objectives nullify all these things to the core.

What is the CSR Policy of Geohoney?

The CSR policy of Geohoney is inspired by nature. Their CSR vision is to actively contribute towards environmental and social development, which adds value to mother earth and nature. Geohoney's mission is to ensure natural sustainability by ecological regeneration, preservation, security, re-development of endangered plant species, and advancing biodiversity.

CSR initiatives also reach extensive local areas through their bee protection efforts. Just like humans, even honeybees are coordinated and agreeable, which gave them more than enough motivation towards attaining their objectives like supporting the vast worldwide dispersed workforce with real-time communication and productivity tools.

Why Investors Trust Geohoney?

Being a leading pollination and Greentech company, it offers its investors complete packages and high yields, making their investment exceptionally fruitful and niche specific. They provide benefits to all their investors and bring wellness and prosperity to wildlife, humanity, and the planet. There are various advantages of being in association with Geohoney, like an annual profit of 27 percent, share ownership priority in the near future, listing in the Better Earth Community (Bee Activists), VIP invitations to events, and VIP Annual Family Packages.

Their prime mission is to set up a hundred thousand monofloral hives on 10,000 farms around the world to reach faster and contribute to Global Nobel Initiatives that strive to save the planet.

Geohoney also fosters direct relationships between local communities, beekeepers, and investors, so that everyone can play their part in saving the bees and nature, and increasing the production of global monofloral honey that offers multiple health benefits.

Geohoney, In a gist!

Geohoney is the global platform that chooses green technology in all the ways to do business. They are committed to the mission to develop green technologies for sustainable environmental, community, and economic impact. It builds and manages green technology with practical solutions to save the planet. They are a professional company working in an environmentally friendly manner in the fields of honey production, pollination, and monofloral technology.

Geohoney supports and trains communities to reduce waste and carbon footprint, and take steps to achieve a balanced and sustainable environment.

Every year on the 12th of December, Universal Health Coverage Day aims towards the motive of “Health for All”, for those leaders are called to make smarter investments & expedite their efforts. Around the world, it is needed that all people get access to good-conditioned healthcare facilities without any financial distress.

On this day, endeavors are made to lift people from poverty, promote families' & communities' well-being, and protect them from health crises. This year’s theme for health coverage day is “Build the world we want: A healthy future for all”. It focuses on the motive that for building stronger health systems, we require trust, equity, investments, accountability, and healthy environments.

Health Coverage Day of 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of WHO and establishes a countdown for the UHC’s high-level meeting occurring at the UN General Assembly in 2023. In the last two decades, the service coverage index of UHC in the Western Pacific region escalated from 49 in the year 2000 & to 80 in 2019.

Mr. Barry, founder & CEO of Geohoney believes in and supports the idea of delivering proper health services around the world. According to him, healthy people and the planet can change the whole dynamics of living and push us forward toward a better future.

There are certain objectives, which UHC emphasizes every year. Some of those include celebrating & acknowledging progress achieved towards universal health coverage motive, raising awareness regarding increasing investments to build a resilient & sustainable health system. Also, to re-establish & monitor how the health services are working.

All these objectives are directly aimed toward the delivery of affordable, high-quality, & people-centered health services. After the Covid 19 outbreak, everyone is aware of the need for resilient & strong health systems.

According to Mr. Barry, apart from delivering health services, every person’s health can be upgraded by utilizing healthy substitutes and food in your diet, protecting the planet, and increasing vegetation. Geohoney, that is a green-tech initiative, pollination, and organic honey-supplying company founded by Mr. Barry, also focuses on improving health & practically implements it by increasing plantation through pollination, using clean energy sources, and supplying nutritionally rich honey to all its users.

To support the cause of Universal Health Coverage Day, Geohoney is bringing you an amazing discount of 15% on all products from VIP packages, Raw Honey, Himalayan Salt Lamps, & Honey Chocolates. 

A honeycomb is a structure made of hexagonal wax cells created by bees, where each cell is filled with raw honey. This structure contains hollow prisms stacked in an arrangement to form a beehive, which is made of beeswax. It is produced by the 8 glands present in a honeybee. Waxy cells can also be chewed like gum.

In each compartment of the hive, the queen honeybee lays an egg. You can munch out the wax, and honeycomb, and even consume honey, which is worthy of a taste delight. Raw & Pure Honey is better than commercial honey, as it’s not pasteurized or filtered. Sometimes, honeycomb might also contain propolis, royal jelly, and bee pollen, which are additional products with health benefits.

Medicinal Benefits of using honeycomb -

1. Promotes Heart Health – Honeycomb boosts your heart’s health. According to research, alcohol, and long chains, fatty acids present in beeswax can reduce anyone’s blood cholesterol levels. High cholesterol is the root cause of heart disease. Another research highlights how beeswax alcohols lower bad LDL cholesterol by 29 percent and increase good HDL cholesterol by 8 to 15 percent. Also, honey has been found to provide similar benefits when used as an alternative to sugar. Moreover, antioxidants present in them can help in the dilation of arteries which leads to your heart.

2. May help in protecting against infections – Honeycomb can boost your immunity and help you fight certain fungi and bacteria. Some of them include Salmonella enterica, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida Albicans and E.coli. Honey also has antimicrobial properties; it might help you protect the gut from the intestine’s parasite Giardia lamblia.

3. May help improve liver function – Honeycomb contributes to a healthier liver. In a study followed for 24 weeks, a group of people was daily given a mixture of beeswax alcohols suffering from the liver disease. 48 percent of those present in this group found a decrease in symptoms like nausea, bloating, and abdominal pain. Whereas, in comparison, only 8% were in a placebo group. Also, 28% of them found their liver functioning returned to normal.

4. Might reduce Coughing in kids -- It can also help in reducing coughing in kids. They are more susceptible to upper respiratory tract infections which result in coughing. As per research, honeycomb and its products may help in suppressing the cough. Having 2.5 ml of buckwheat honey before bedtime was found to be more effective in comparison to cough syrup.

Potential Dangers of Honeycomb

It is generally safe to consume. However, as it contains honey there is a contamination risk from Botulinum spores. Which is harmful, particularly for children under the age of 12 months and pregnant women. Also, in certain cases, eating a large quantity of honeycomb can cause obstructions in the stomach. So, to minimize the risk of this, you can limit your consumption or just spit out waxy cells in between. Moreover, if you are prone to allergies from bee pollen or venom then some precautions must be taken to prevent an allergic reaction.

We all know well that thunderstorms produce an electric charge, but new exciting research shows that a swarm of honeybees can also generate as much electricity as a thunderstorm. This phenomenon was, however, discovered by chance by researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK.

Biologist Ellard Hunting, the study's first author, told CNN that the Bristol group concentrated on how various life forms use the static electric fields everywhere around them. Atmospheric electricity benefits organisms in various ways, mainly helping organisms search for food and shape weather events.

This can be well understood from an example that flowers have an electric field, and honeybees can detect these fields. Furthermore, these electric fields of blossoms can change when a honey bee has visited it, and different honey bees can use that data to see whether a bloom has been visited," explained Hunting.

Having set up equipment to quantify barometrical electric fields at the university's field station, which includes a few honey bee hives, Hunting and his group saw that at whatever point the honey bees swarmed, there was "a significant impact on environmental electric fields," even though the weather conditions hadn't changed.

Hunting further said all insect species create a charge during flight because of air erosion, with the charge's size varying between species. However, individual honey bees convey a charge that is sufficiently little to be disregarded by specialists, so "this impact (in amassing honey bees) came as a shock.

The specialists noticed the hives on the field station, utilizing a camera and electric field monitors to measure electric currents during the honey bee swarms. Scientists wrote in the study that swarms can happen when a hive becomes packed, with the queen honey bee leaving with around 12,000 working bees.

The monitors measured the flows for roughly three minutes as the swarms passed over them and caught charges going from 100 to 1,000 volts for each meter. Hunting and his colleagues saw that the electric field was more prominent when the swarm was thicker - all the more densely packed with honey bees. Moreover, they saw that the atmospheric electric charge will be similar to that of a thunderstorm and electrified dust storm depending on the swarm density.

Utilizing the model developed with the bumble bees, the group anticipated the impact of other bug species - like locusts which are speculated that they could change their neighborhood electrical environment with a "magnitude equivalent to meteorological events," the research says.

Hunting said he believes the group's discoveries open up new roads of exploration, particularly in the connection between the natural world and atmospheric electric power.

News Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/26/world/bees-swarms-produce-electricity-scn-scli-intl/index.html