  We were so lucky to have James from Natural New Zealand Honey come and share his knowledge about farming bees. We learnt so very much and he was pretty impressed at what we knew too. We learnt all about 'queen excluders' in the hive boxes, got to check out the smoker that is used to calm the bees, and how different types of flowers make the honey different colours. He bought a see through hive where we could see 4,000 bees and if you spied really carefully you were able to spot the queen bee. James had painted a blue spot on her back so that she was able to be seen amongst all of the worker bees. We found out that three simple eyes on the top of a bees head help it to see in the dark, and that each of the two compound eyes has nearly 7,000 lenses! What amazing insects bees are! A great big thank you to James for sharing his wealth of knowledge with us!
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