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Summertime in Virginia means fresh fruits and vegetables. But did you know that without honeybees you wouldn’t be enjoying those crisp cucumbers in your summer salad or those juicy apples in the fall?
In fact, as much as one-third of our total diet in this country is derived from insect-]pollinated plants, explains Lisa Lafoon, marketing specialist with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Even the meat and dairy industries depend on the honeybee for pollination of the seeds of legume crops, which make up a major part of the feed for livestock.
The honeybee is also important to us for the delicious, sweet honey it produces. For thousands of years honey has been used as a sweetening agent. When buying honey, be sure it is pure honey and not a high fructose syrup, sometimes marketed as honey. Look for Virginia honey, as opposed to the many imported varieties on the market.
Virginia honey comes in a variety of types and flavors. The most common type is liquid, where the honey is extracrted from the wax comb. Honey is also marketed in the comb; chunk style, which is liquid containing a piece
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