Don't our bees have a wonderful place to buzz around...

We at Mark The Home Vet are proud to support our local community and adopt an entire Buckfast honeybee hive with Bees For Business. We have the privilege of naming all 60,000 bees Mark The Home Vet.

It has been widely reported by the media that the honeybee population is increasingly under threat by disease, lack of pollen sources and pollution, however, a greater threat is a lack of social awareness of the importance of the bee: one third of the food we eat relies on pollination by the honeybee.

So, we have adopted a beehive to help make a difference to the environment and to help to reverse the decline of the honeybee, a critically important and integral part of our eco system.

Some interesting bee facts:

- Beekeeping is an ancient art thought to be more than 8,000 years old.

- Each honeybee makes just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

- Honey is often used as a natural antiseptic in medicine for its anti-fungal, anti-septic, anti-oxidant and anti-bacterial properties.

- During the peak summer season a healthy honeybee colony can contain as many as 80,000 honeybees.

- In one flight, a honeybee can visit as many as 50 to 100 flowers at a time, averaging up to 2,000 flowers per day.