From Aleteia:
We knew that honey had preservative qualities to it, but we never imagined that bees could preserve icons. That’s just what happens near Athens, Greece, where a Catholic beekeeper likes to adorn his hives with icons.
For a decade, a beekeeper named Isidoros Ţiminis, living in the region of Kapandriti, near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production.