I just love stories that show that the world of bees is unexplainable, beyond individual intelligence and that even to the most brainiest of scientists can’t explain how they do it! Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route [...]
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Bees Solve Travelling Salesman Problem
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Heater Bees
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A great programme from the BBC on Heater Bees broadcast this evening. Unfortunately, you can’t watch the whole programme any more, but there are some clips here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rqgh4#clips And this amazing photograph:
Renaming the Hives: Unity, Kindness, Melody and Liberty
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As is the custom at our Apiary, any swarms that we catch are called by the names of the places that we caught them in – but only for the first year. If they get through the winter, then they are given new names – which are all virtues. We started with Faith, Hope and [...]
Leadership and Management in the Hive
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the work that I do, I am often asked what is the difference between leaders and managers. So here is an attempt to describe the difference: Leaders lead people. In order to lead people they need vision of a possible future and a sense of purpose. And they need to convince others that this [...]
Sacred Geometry and the Honey Bee
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In his book “Sacred Geometry – Philosophy and Practice”, Robert Lawlor has an interesting picture on the connection between sacred geometry and the honey bee. Lawlor draws attention to the ubiquitous relationship between One and the Square Root of Two (or 1:1.41421356…) and shows this in the diagram below: Excerpt from page 31 “Sacred Geometry [...]
The Wisdom of Bees and Voting Systems
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Honeybees have been “voting” in single winner “elections” for 20-50 million years. They’ve held far more elections than humans, for a lot longer, and to decide something that mattered to each bee voter a lot more than most election winners matter to most human voters: where should we locate our new nest? Each spring, about [...]
Bee Vibrations: The Apidictor
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The late E.F.Woods was the inventor of the Apidictor. “Sound engineers are familiar with a phenomenon known as the ‘cocktail party effect’. This is the ability of the human brain, in a room full of chattering people, to pick out and concentrate on one conversation, not necessarily the loudest. Eddie was blessed with this ability [...]
Bee Vibrations
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever I visit my hives I come away feeling much calmer. Non-beekeepers are often amazed when I say this. They assume that I would become more stressed with the “threat of the sting”. But the inverse is true. After my seasonal dosage of stings which occur naturally when beekeeping, any stings after them become little [...]
Rhythmic Life
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The very inception of life is rhythm. Life is rhythm and Rhythm is life. The rising of the SUN is rhythm. The shimmering of the RAYS is rhythm. The BLOOMMING of a BUD is rhythm. The Feel of the BREEZE is rhythm. The ROAR of the WAVES is rhythm. The Chirping of the BIRDS is [...]
Circadian Clocks and the Bee’s Daily Diary
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flowers of a given species all produce nectar at about the same time each day, as this increases the chances of cross-pollination. The trick works because pollinators, which in most cases means the honeybee, concentrate foraging on a particular species into a narrow time-window. In effect the honeybee has a daily diary that can include [...]
