Entry no. M2232 ยท Class 3
Euan
sponsors Hot Toddy, a worker bee in Hive Two at a working apiary in Isleworth.
- Class
- Worker Bee for a Month
- Bee
- Hot Toddy
- Hive
- Hive Two
- Started
- 24 Aug 2026
- Days left
- 0
- Kept by
- JP, Holybees
Worker
Female, sterile, and doing every job in the hive by rota.
Cleaner, nurse, builder, bouncer and chef, all before her third week. Never complains. Fine, she complains in dance.
- Works through a career: cleaning, then nursing brood, then wax, then guarding, then foraging
- Makes about one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her whole life
- Barbed sting, which tears away when she uses it and kills her
- Thirty to fifty thousand of them in a hive at midsummer
A worker bee makes about one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her life and lives roughly six weeks in summer. She is a named companion in a real, photographed colony, not an individually tracked insect. What this paid for is real: frames, foundation, feed and the hours.
The PDF is the full card, made to print. The image is a wide version sized for posting.
What is this?
Somebody is paying for a real bee.
Holybees keeps honey bees in a Victorian churchyard in Isleworth. Sponsoring one pays for the frames, the feed and the winter she has to survive first. Every sponsor gets a numbered card like this one.
While you are here
It takes six to eight kilograms of honey for bees to make one kilogram of wax, which is why beekeepers hand back drawn comb rather than making them build it twice.
Lately at the apiary
Labels now on Holy Honey!! 19 Sep 2026
Holy Honey was bottled today! 12 Sep 2026
From five pounds. You pick the bee, she gets a name, and you get a card like this one.