“Most of the bees come to their end in the open fields. With wings frayed from the winds the summer workers reach the limit of their strength and expire. Bees that die within the hive are carried outside by the workers – yet this is a rare occurrence. As many observers have reported, dying bees [...]
Archive for October, 2007
The End of a Bee’s Life
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What a Relief!
Posted in Bee Present, Bylaugh on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mum came out of the house just at that moment. We shared the excitement with her. “Look!” I said “What do you think it is?” “It is a swarm of bees!” Mum said. Bees! There was a scientific explanation for all those mysterious happenings. And it lay in the fact that all these strange things [...]
Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid!
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
They’ve built barriers, shone flashlights and even burned their rubber-soled shoes. yet try as they might, African farmers struggle to keep elephants from trampling their land and destroying their crops. The answer, finally, may be found in the sound of a swarm of buzzing bees. “They really bolted,” says Lucy King at the University of [...]
