Arataki Honey Visit

Room 4 visited the Arataki Honey Centre in Havelock, Monday 10 March, 2014. We have been learning about bees and how they help our community but also the environment. Children had the opportunity of viewing the hives and the bees at work. We were able to pick out the queen bee as she had a white dot on her back. Each hive had hundreds of bees, all with important roles to help maintain and keep it alive, we saw this in action. 

The children also were able to make a candle out of honey wax, they smelt delicious! If only we were allowed to eat them. 

We were able to view a kiwi fruit orchard owned by the Crazbons. We found out how important the honey bees were to their production. 

Fact: A bee has to pollinate a kiwifruit flower 40 times to be able to produce one fruit. 

This is incredible work that the bees are doing. 

These wonderful creatures are doing amazing things to help with our environment, humble work.