Come see who does the hard work at our pumpkin patch.  These little insects are busy 24/7 making sure that there are pumpkins to pick each year by polinating the flowers that bloom on each vine.  Without their contribution we wouldn't have any pumpkins for our guests.



Our beehive is now located near the other attractions, but far enough away that you won't even see them if you chose not to.  Everyone can now walk to the bee house and spend as much time there as you like.

 
Making lots of Honey!



Lunch time




Honeybee facts

1. An average colony of honey bees contain only one queen, who may lay 2,000 eggs per day during her busy season. There may be 50,000 of more worker bees (undeveloped females) who do all the work. There will also be several hundred drones (male bees).

2. A worker bee gathers in its entire life .0288 of an ounce of honey. It required about 556 worker bees to gather a full pound of honey. The bees would fly approximately 35,584 miles or more than once around the world in doing this work.

3. The average life of a worker bee during the working season is about six weeks. Three weeks of this time is spent on work within the hive, and three weeks as a field bee gathering nectar and pollen.

4. Honey varies in colour from white through to golden to dark brown, and it is all of equal food value. Although the darker the honey, the higher the mineral content of calcium, phosphorous, iron, etc.

5. The value of honey bees is important in pollinating fruits, vegetables and legumes. Natural pollinating insects are disappearing rapidly and each year we will become more and more dependent on the honey bee for many of our daily foods.

6. Honey is one of our safest foods. Many harmful germs cannot live in honey for any length of time.

Welcome to the Bee House!



The front wall has images and information about the bee's home and life cycle. 



The bees go in and out through the back wall, so everyone can see them from inside the safety of our Bee House.



This is where the bees enter and exit the hive.

Check out the hive.

There is lots of honey in the bottom.



Sugar water to feed the bees