Honey bees have been admired by people the world over for their industriousness and order. The colony is run by a single queen, and the rest of the population is made up of worker bees and drones. The workers are female, and the drones are male. A standard colony is made up of around 30,000 honey bees, but can be much larger or smaller than that. Honey bees are only one species out of 20,000 bee species on earth, but they have become the most talked about as of late because of their importance to crop pollination, and because of their sharp population declines in the last decade. In fact, the populations in North America have dwindled by around 50...
Beeswax, like honey, has been used by people for thousands of years. It was used to create wax writing tablets, candles, shellac, as a type of lubricant or sealing wax, and to strengthen various other handmade materials. But what is beeswax, and how does it apply to us today? Essentially, beeswax is exactly what it sounds like: a natural wax, secreted by bees as they work in the hive. While beeswax is technically edible by humans, it is tough to digest, which is why people used the resource as a building material instead of food. We are still using beeswax in a variety of ways today. For example, beeswax can be found in chewing gum, a variety of cosmetics such as...
Honey has been harvested by humans for thousands of years, valued for its sweet taste and various medicinal uses. In some ancient cultures, honey was used to embalm the dead, or buried with them to bring to the afterlife. In ancient Greece, beekeeping was common, both for honey harvesting and to help cultivate other flowers and plant growth. Fast forward to today, and honey is still being consumed for its health benefits. Honey is known to help with coughs, sore throat, burns, ulcers, regulating blood sugar levels, and can even help to prevent certain types of cancer. People use honey as a replacement to white sugar or corn syrup, as it is a more natural and healthier alternative to other sweeteners....
A major milestone of success for a local Hawaiian business is to be noticed by a business accelerator company. More impressive still is to be accepted into a business accelerator company’s first cohort of businesses, and that’s exactly what Hawaiian Rainbow Bees did. Mana Up, a business accelerator company based in Honolulu, has a singular goal: to make serious, global businesses out of local Hawaiian product companies. Mana Up was started by three business people in 2017 who want to see Hawaiian businesses be serious contenders in national and global markets. Cripplingly-high shipping costs make expanding off the islands difficult for small businesses, as well as tougher access to resources and revenue streams that are easier to attain on the...
