Entry no. H1506 ยท Class 4
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sponsors BUCKET, a queen bee in Hive One at a working apiary in Isleworth.
- Class
- Queen Bee for a Year
- Bee
- BUCKET
- Hive
- Hive One
- Started
- 23 Aug 2026
- Days left
- 316
- Kept by
- JP, Holybees
Queen
One per colony, and everything depends on her.
Lays 2,000 eggs a day and has staff for absolutely everything else. Diva energy, but she has earned it.
- Lays up to 2,000 eggs a day at the height of summer, more than her own body weight
- Lives three to five years, where a summer worker lives about six weeks
- Longer abdomen that extends well past her wingtips, which is how you pick her out
- Her sting is smooth, so she can use it more than once, and almost never does on you
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.