Fact of the day 🍯🐝 The average US citizen consumes 860g of honey a year. #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth #Nationalhoneymonth2022

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 One of the ways that honey bees communicate with each other is by passing pheromones during feeding. #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth #Nationalhoneymonth2022

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 The Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, are essential pollinators in many agricultural systems. #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth #Nationalhoneymonth2022

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 To preserve their energy for foraging, honey bees will remain motionless at night. They do not sleep. #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth #Nationalhoneymonth2022

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 Did you know Drones hatch from unfertilised eggs that are laid by the queen? #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth #Nationalhoneymonth2022

Huge thank you to IMAGE Media for the piece they did with our CEO Fiona Edwards Murphy recently🐝 ''Our technology makes beekeeping more sustainable, more animal-friendly while also making beekeeping more profitable'' bit.ly/3xoGdAK

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 About one week after hatching a queen will make several nuptial flights, over several days, to areas known as Drone Congregation Areas where she will be chased by drones and will mate several times 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 Nurse bees receive pollen and nectar from foragers and mix it with fungi and microorganisms to make bee bread 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 In artwork, bees are sometimes represented with a single pair of wings but bees actually have two pair of wings 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

Calling at beekeepers. There’s a big buzz at the ⁦ApisProtect⁩ stand at the ⁦Enterprise Ireland⁩ Innovation Arena at the National Ploughing Championship. ⁦LEOCorkNorthandWest⁩ ⁦LocalEnterprise.ie⁩ ⁦Cork County Council⁩

The role of guard bees is to protect their colony from robbing animals or physical threats to a hive or its bees 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

Come visit us at this year's National Ploughing Championships in Enterprise Irelands Innovation Arena 🐝 To celebrate this year's National Ploughing Championships, our monitors are now €220 for the week 🎉Visit our website or our stand to purchase a discounted monitor 🐝

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Fact of the day 🐝🍯 When planting flowers, choose those high in nectar and pollen 🌼 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

#MustRead: From farm management apps to platforms that monitor bees, here are nine agritech start-ups from Ireland and around Europe to look out for siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/agri…

Fact of the day 🐝🍯 When a queen is killed unexpectedly, the colony can sometimes alter the feeding regime of some very young larvae to create new queens 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

Fact of the day 🐝🍯 The milky substance produced in a special gland in the worker bee's head is known as 'Royal Jelly' 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #NationalHoneyMonth

Huge thank you to Silicon Republic for including ApisProtect in their 9 agritech start-ups planting seeds for the future of food and farming' list 🐝 Read the full list here bit.ly/3foxdpl

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 Beekeeping can be dated back to more than 4,000 years ago! #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth

Fact of the day 🍯🐝 Honey bees are not the only insect that produce food that is consumed by humans. Some species of stingless bees, native to the tropics, produce small amounts of honey that is also consumed by humans 🐝 #NationalhoneymonthUSA #Nationalhoneymonth