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A bee comb has six sides,
on each a magic thing it hides:
Take wax, pollen and a spoon of honey
and you will be healthy and sunny
Try propolis, royal jelly, venom
and you'll enjoy bee's poem.
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WELCOME
On the Bee Hexagon website, presented in English and German languages.
The bees have chosen the hexagon as a building cell for their combs. One reason is that it is especially economic in regard to expenditure of energy and material and has a maximal strength, able to store heavy honey in it: a comb of 100 g weight can hold in it up to 4 kg of honey!
And may be also, because the bees want to show us, that they offer us six magic products: honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, beeswax and bee venom.
I had the privilege to work for 26 years with these products, mainly on honey, at the Swiss Bee Research Centre, www.apis.admin.ch
I would like to offer here some fascinating and useful facts on the “six magic things”, most of all on quality and health aspects.
This website was born in
March 2008 and new information will be updated regularly, as many fascinating facts about the bee products remain to be discovered.
NEWS
September 2009
The Beeswax Book
August 2009
Start of the publication of books on all bee products. They will contain the most important information of applied science on the six bee products. The information is both for scientists and general readers. The books will be regularly updated to contain the most up-todate information.
The Honey Book
November 2008 to January 2009
additions of many documents at
www.bee-hexagon.net/en/honey.htm and
www.bee-hexagon.net/en/network.htm
many new honey and bee poemns from famous poets of all times
at
www.bee-hexagon.net/en/creativeexpression.htm
CONFERENCES