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Archive for September, 2008
List of Lores
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bees Can Count!
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Honeybees are clever little creatures. They can form abstract concepts, such as symmetry versus asymmetry, and they use symbolic language — the celebrated waggle dance — to direct their hivemates to flower patches. New reports suggest that they can also communicate across species, and can count — up to a point. With colleagues, Songkun Su [...]
Magic Presents from the Bees
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A bee comb has six sides, on each a magic thing it hides: Take wax, pollen and a spoon of honey which will make you healthy and sunny Try propolis, royal jelly or venom and you’ll enjoy bee’s poem! Adapted from: http://www.bee-hexagon.net/
Bee Law: Possession of Bees
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blackstone Commentaries, Book II divides the entire animal kingdom into two classes. Domesticated animals (ferae domitia) and wild (ferae naturae). Wild animals are also divided into two classes — those free to roam at will and those which have been subjected to man’s dominion. The honey bee that exists in the wild (lives in a tree [...]
The Creation Story from the San people
Posted in Bee Lore, Beetwixt & Beetween on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the creation story of the Kalahari Desert’s San people, a bee carries a mantis across a river. The river is wide, and the exhausted bee eventually leaves the mantis on a floating flower. The bee plants a seed in the mantis’s body before dying, and the seed grows into the first human. From: http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/bee.htm
Prehistoric Ape-iarists?
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently chimpanzees hunt honey in Africa in the same way that people do. They follow the honeyguide bird to where the bees are. The males then go up the tree first to collect the honey and they even use tools such as stones and sticks to get at the honey! One wonders whether the practice [...]
Hole in my veil…beeware!
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn feeding….with all of this year’s honey for the bees!
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weather has been good over the past week and I have visited the hives twice…… Two of the hives are not going to make it over winter – the last two swarms that were caught in late June (Kilndown and Hawkhurst). However, we should get Joy, Harmony, Faith, Grace (weakest of these five) and [...]
