Humblebeez

29/10/2025

What a photo!

🐝 This is an incredible shot!
Take a close look at this photo — what do you see?
Can you identify the different parts of the honey bee?
Let’s check out some amazing parts if the Honey Bee up close:

🐝Mandibles – Check out those pincers! These strong jaws are used for gripping, cutting, and shaping wax and pollen. They’re essential tools for building and maintaining the hive and preparing food.

🐝Antennae – Bees have two long antennae packed with tiny sensors that detect smells, tastes, and vibrations. These help them navigate, communicate, and find flowers full of nectar.

🐝Ocelli – Look closely at the top of the bee’s head and you’ll spot three small eyes! These “simple eyes” sense light and help bees stay oriented while flying.

🐝Compound Eyes – The large eyes on each side of the bee’s head are made up of thousands of tiny lenses. Together, they create a mosaic-like vision that helps bees detect movement, color, and danger all around them.

🐝Fine Hairs – The bee’s body is covered in delicate hairs (called setae) that collect pollen, sense temperature and air movement, and even help regulate body heat.

By noticing these details, we can truly appreciate how perfectly designed honey bees are for their incredible work in the hive and the world around us. 🐝

📸 Photo credit: William Cobb

28/10/2025

It is a joy to share posts of other beekeeping-related businesses that have far better lenses to work with! The digital quality in their photos and videos captures the fine details in the honeybee’s design and delicate movements which is fascinating to watch. Check this out!

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24/10/2025

We got our supers all stored away for the season, thanks to the cooler temps and wind, yay! No bees found them in the process. 🐝💕 If you’d like to place an order for pick up this weekend, let us know ASAP as communication will be limited after 12noon on Friday but we’ll be available again after Sunday. Stephanie will be enjoying our church’s Women’s retreat. Have a blessed weekend everyone!

21/10/2025

Our remaining events for 2025:

Elk River’s INDOOR Farmer’s Market, YMCA 11/6
Pathways Community Church Craft Sale, Ramsey 11/8
Green Valley Green House Holiday Market 11/14-15
Elk River Holiday Maker’s Market 11/29
Elk River INDOOR Farmer’s Market, YMCA 12/4
Mingle & Jingle Craft Sale, Blaine 12/6

…or there’s porch pick up in Zimmerman or Nowthen by appointment. Plus, elderberry syrup kits! Hope to see you soon!

19/10/2025

THE HONEYBEE WAS DESIGNED

A honeybee’s gut is perfectly designed to break down and process pollen, its primary protein source. Pollen grains have tough outer shells made of sporopollenin, one of the hardest natural substances known — almost impossible to digest. Yet bees can unlock the nutrients inside because their gut hosts specialized enzymes and beneficial bacteria that work together to dissolve the pollen walls. Without these microscopic helpers and digestive compounds, the bee couldn’t get the nutrition it needs to survive or make royal jelly for the colony. The bee, the enzymes, and the bacteria all depend on one another — a precise system of mutual design that had to exist simultaneously. Evolution can’t explain how such a tightly interdependent system could gradually form; each piece is useless without the others. This points unmistakably to a Creator who engineered every part to work in harmony from the beginning.

15/10/2025

What an awesome shot of this lady moving propolis!

01/10/2025

Hope to see you at Green Valley Garden Center’s Fall Fest THIS Saturday! You’ll find lots of SWEET things there for any age…🍯🐝🥰

01/10/2025

True story!

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🍌🐝 Why Beekeepers Avoid Bananas

This might surprise you: beekeepers are often told not to eat bananas before working with their hives. Why? Because the smell of bananas can actually make bees more aggressive!

🔬 The Science

Bananas release a chemical called isoamyl acetate—and that’s the very same compound bees release when they sting. It’s their alarm pheromone, a signal to the rest of the hive that danger is near.

When a beekeeper smells like bananas, the bees think an attack is happening and may become more defensive, ready to sting.

🐝 What It Means in the Hive

A single sting releases alarm pheromones.

Other bees smell it and quickly rally to defend the hive.

Bananas trick them into thinking danger is already there.

A Gentle Reminder

Bees aren’t naturally aggressive—they’re protective. Most of the time, honey bees are calm, focused on nectar and pollen. But when they sense danger, they act fast to defend their queen and colony.

So, next time you snack on a banana, remember—it smells like lunch to you, but to a bee, it smells like “all hands on deck!”

30/09/2025

TODAY is the last day of the 2025 season! Hope to see you all there! 🥰

27/09/2025

Pretty sure I spotted a varroa in this clip, too. They’re challenging enough, but now another pest on the horizon? Why is everything seemingly coming from Asia? The varroa, the murder hornet, false ladybugs, Japanese beetles, and now this? Prayers, persistence, and trusting in His provision and promises…one day and for all eternity, everything will be made right. We long for that glorious day in His presence! Until then, we press on.

25/09/2025

Mark your calendars for the LAST market date of 2025 of the Zimmerman Farmers Market at the Station 1 Event Center! Tuesday, September 30th from 3-6:30. So many vendors with tasty treats, fresh produce, delicious cheeses and meats, pickles, salsas, jam, local raw and creamed honeys, sourdough, cookies, pies, cakes, pastries, not to mention soaps, lotions, foot soak (for those tired feet), gifts, art, plus live music and perfect fall weather to wrap it up. Don’t miss this event! 🐝🍯☀️💙

🚨LAST MARKET DATE for 2025🚨
🍁🍃🍂DON’T MISS THIS 🍃🍂🍁

Come and grab all your favorites!! Make sure to stock that freezer up to last you until June of next year. The Tipsy SOTA is serving mocktails! Grab one as you go around to shop! Ku•ma•in serving the most amazing authentic food! And crowd favorite Mason’s Sno & More with the ice and ice cream! Thank you Renewal by Andersen for being this week’s sponsor!

Bring a lawn chair as local town favorite Tony Digatono will be blessing us with his amazing music! You’re going to want to stay and hang out!!

24/09/2025

The LAST event of the St. Francis Farmers Market for the regular summer season of 2025 is TODAY! Be sure to stop on by before it’s over! Community Park 3-7pm. Stock up on lots of tasty treats, farm fresh goodies, meats, creamed honey, and more. ☀️

* Photos from a previous week as vendors have not begun setup yet.