{"id":628284,"date":"2023-04-11T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/the-bees-of-easter-island-produce-the-purest-honey-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:16:00","slug":"the-bees-of-easter-island-produce-the-purest-honey-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/the-bees-of-easter-island-produce-the-purest-honey-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bees of Easter Island Produce the Purest Honey on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"maincontent\">\n<div>\n<p><span>By  Spooky on  April 11th, 2023 Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/category\/foods\" rel=\"category tag\">Foods<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Isolated on an island in the middle of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the bees of Easter Island are free of all the pathogens and pesticides ravaging the global bee population, and therefore produce the purest honey on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The beekeepers of Chile\u2019s Easter Island are fully aware that their bees may one day become the salvation of the world\u2019s most important polinator. With bee colonies all over the world struggling to survive serious threats like pesticide poisoning, new diseases and climate change, the bees of Easter Island are probably the only ones in the world yet to be affected by such problems. And their owners hope to keep it that way. They have managed to convince the local government to ban the importation of bees, because of the significant risk of contamination.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bees-easter-island.jpg\" alt width=\"750\" height=\"500\"  ><span id=\"more-78437\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/qFAEHxevxVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eric Ward\/Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHere the farmers practically do not use pesticides, they use ancestral cultivation techniques,\u201d beekeeper Rodrigo Labras said. \u201c<\/span><span>The water is also completely natural, collected from rain<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><span>They have clean water sources all over the island. But the main thing is that unlike bees in the world, they are not associated with any type of disease.\u00a0And therefore we do not have to apply any chemical product to the hive or to the bees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, tests have shown that the bees of Easter Island lack consanguinity with the rest of the bees in the world, which further suggests that the polinators here really are different and may one day become the saviors of the species. Easter Island is the only true paradise bees still have on Earth and if we mean to save the species as a whole, this little enclave may play a very important role.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/honey-bee.jpg\" alt width=\"750\" height=\"500\"  ><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/et7L0_eip5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sophie N.\/Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not only are the bees of Easter Island the healthiest in the world, they are also the most productive. Because of the island\u2019s pleasant climate \u2013 spring weather almost all year round \u2013 the bees remain active throughout the year, along with the flowering of the plants. Colonies on the island produce between 90 and 120 kilos of honey per year, compared to 20 kilograms produced by similarly-sized bee hives anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the lack of bee diseases on Easter Island, beekeepers have no use for antibiotics of any kind, there is no risk of pesticide contamination, so the honey made here is considered the most pure in the entire world. Rapanui honey, as this nectar is sometimes called, also has a more liquid consistency than common honey due to the high humidity of the island, which prevents crystallization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/foods\/the-bees-of-easter-island-produce-the-purest-honey-on-earth.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Spooky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spooky on April 11th, 2023 Category: Foods Isolated on an island in the middle of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, the bees of Easter Island are free of all the pathogens and pesticides ravaging the global bee population, and therefore produce the purest honey on the planet. The beekeepers of Chile\u2019s Easter Island are fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30691,534,368],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-628284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-easter","8":"category-financial","9":"category-island"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}