“Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, my honey-making bees, They left the musk, and the marigolds and the scented faint sweet-peas; They gather’d in a darkening cloud, and sway’d, and rose to fly; A blackness on the summer blue, they swept across the sky. Gaunt and ghastly with gaping wounds—(my soldier son, alas)! Footsore and faint, the messenger [...]
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The Bees of Myddelton Manor
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
That Neo-Classical Bee
Posted in Bee Lore, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining Hour, And gather Honey all the Day From ev’ry op’ning Flow’r!” – “How skillfully she builds her Cell! How neat she spreads the Wax! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet Food she makes.” – “With these exclamatory and somewhat clumsy lines, Isaac [...]
Sacred Geometry and the Honey Bee
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 20, 2010 | 3 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 [...]
Beekeeping in Russian Forests
Posted in Bee Lore, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We think in this age of beekeeping as a small time pursuit for either the small business or for some form of esoteric pass-time. In the past bee-keeping was anything but that. As an industry in Eastern Europe it probably reached a climax around 1200-1400. The reason that Eastern Europe was probably much better at [...]
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
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 [...]
Beedazzled, Beewildered and Beegotten
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a strange world it is. I met up this year with someone who I had not seen for a few years – Andrew Gough. Andrew and I used to work together – yet we both have websites showing our passions – and they overlap with bees. You can find our mutual interest at Andrew’s [...]
Bees Buzz at Midnight on Christmas Eve
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is an old tale from Scotland and the North of England that the bees buzz at midnight on Christmas Eve. They have been doing it for centuries, apparently! I visited my hives today – but all was quiet! Then again, I did not visit them at midnight! There was lots of snow, though! A [...]
Three Bees
Posted in Bee Lore, Beetwixt & Beetween on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Three Bees was a convict ship that caught fire in Sydney Cove in 1814. She was built in Bridgewater in 1813. Three Bees arrived in Sydney Cove, Australia, on 6 May 1814 with a cargo of 210 male convicts. After the all the convicts were all disembarked, a fire was discovered on the ship [...]
