Bee Lore

Here you will find a collection of stories from the world of the honey bee – both past and present.  The site’s main purpose is to act as a portal to the stories from the folklore and ancient myth associated with bees - Beelore will guide you to these stories.  Bees also have a magical, other-worldly quality about them – and Beetwixt and Beetween covers stories that are perhaps a little mystical, magical or downright unexplainable.  There are also some natural Laws that the bees follow – probably not even knowing they are laws!  You will find them under Bee Law. 

As well as my interest in bee lore, I also find real inspiration from the bees in the present.  Keeping them;  studying them; harvesting honey from them.  Even the name “bee” has such present and direct assocation with the command “BE”!  Bee in the present! or Bee in the Now – which is surely one of the basic principles of all religions worldwide.  Bee Present will take you to these stories. 

I hope that my reflections on bees and life will be interesting both to those of you who know me and those who do not.  I also hope that they are also interesting (and reasonably accurate) for the odd beekeeper who ventures onto the site!  As a fellow beekeeper, I have classified some under Beekeeping and here I keep a blog for my beekeeping persuits.  I know that that bees don’t read – particularly the many books that have been written about their behaviour.  But if a bee did take up reading, I hope it would also find the site interesting!  There are also a few stories on the biology of the bee – which I have put under the Beeology label.

For those who find inaccuracies in any of the details above or who want to reflect on their own ideas and suggestions – or even steer one of the storylines, please feel free to leave a comment or two! 

Although this site looks like a “blog” – but isn’t only a blog.  It is really the cross between a blog and a book.  There is one STORYLINE or Tag which is better read from the bottom upwards…..or back to front.  It will make more sense then!  The line for this story is  Bylaugh – which is where my fascination for the honeybee all started.  So this particular tag is a storybook in its own right.  If there are any would-be publishers who like the Bylaugh Storyline – please also get in touch with me on the form below!