Boquete Bees and Butterflies, Chiriqui Province, Panama
5.0 (295 reviews) Saturday: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #1 in Boquete Farms
Worthy and excellent tour!
Panama's home of live, bio-active single variety honey. We also have a 200 sq meter butterfly house with over 30 local species of butterflies. Emerge yourself in the pollinators with a half day tour or else just swing buy for honey tastings and butterfly house (open 9-4), shop (open 9-4). We have a unique offering and we want to share it with people who like high quality honey, love nature and want to make a difference by supporting our small business. We are passionate about taste. We can offer honey tastings like no other. More varied than anywhere else in the world that we know of. We produce a vast range of different flavors of honey depending on the floral source. This is unique and only possible because of the enormous biodiversity in Western Panama around Volcan Baru. This small Isthmus has Atlantic and Pacific coasts, 11,000 ft mountains and just about every type of forest and grassland in between. Some of our honeys are rare, some we have in larger quantity. We are serious about health. Our honey and our honey bees are very healthy. We sell raw minimally filtered honey. More than that though, our honey is pure and pristine in ways that are not possible in most of the developed world: 1. Most of our honeys are from wild plants which have no chemical treatment and are utterly pristine 2. Our bees are healthy, we do not need to feed antibiotics or miticides We want to teach people to better understand how to care for our pollinators. We offer a tour on our honey farm in Boquete. We treasure all types of bees and keep on the farm a wide variety of forage for bees, different types of native bees to illustrate how bees and plants are meant to exist together. Our butterfly house is 200 sq meters and is full of fun and activity. Sure to delight all ages.
Address
Calle Los Naranjos, Boquete 0413 Panama
Mobile
Website
http://boquetebees.com
Working hours
Monday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Sunday : 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Current local date and time now
Saturday, May 04, 2024, 20:56
User Ratings
5.0 based on (295 reviews)
Reviews
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5CRFan2 5:00 PM May 6, 2022
Informative and inspiring.
We enjoy visiting Boquete and do not feel fit enough to do a big hike, so we visited this place and exceeded our expectations. We took the VIP tour so received the benefit of delightful Tina being our tour guide while sharing her knowledge motivated with a sincere passion for the earth's ecosystem. The stroll for the bee your was easy and pleasant. It was fascinating to see inside the hives and how they differed. We are from Canada so I had no idea of the variety of tropical bees there were. Next into the butterfly atrium like no other we have been in before with numerous types flying about. Most fascinating for me was the back room where the crystalysts were nurtured and hatched so could actually see new born butterflies. Then tasting a lot of varieties of honey... 34! Wow what variety. It was a short taxi ride from town so we liked that as well. Tina the knowledgeable enthused guide turned the experience from great to amazing.
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5Miles Archer 5:00 PM May 20, 2021
BUTTERFLIES AND BEES
I sometimes use honey to sweeten my coffee. Usually it's clover honey back in the States. And I use it to slowly swallow it for a sore throat. It helps. Back home in south Florida I have plants that attract butterflies. I planted them for that very purpose. I have milkweed plants, which monarch butterflies lay their eggs on. Then the hatched larvae eat the milkweed plant almost completely. But those milkweed plants always regenerate back to full volume. The adult insects become monarch butterflies after they go through metamorphosis. The adults then sip nectar from other plants. I also have nectar plants for passing butterflies of other species, like the zebra butterflies. Monarch in the eastern part of the United States, and on into Canada, migration to a place in Mexico to over-winter. They make that flight in a single generation. After winter, they leave Mexico and fly back to their home territory. This generation of butterflies is not the same generation that flew south to Mexico. This "returning" generation is new, never having been up north where the previous generation is from. And this new generation doesn't make the flight in a single generation. It takes about three or four generation to reach the original habitat in the United States, or Canada. Somehow these generations of monarchs have a GPS in their DNA. These generations have a shorter lifespan than the generation that flew to Mexico. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed all the bees and butterflies here. And I learned some things.
