American scientists have discovered that a fly parasite can turn honey bees into confused zombies before killing them, in an advance that could offer new clues to why bee colonies are collapsing. So far, the parasite has only been detected in honey bees in California and South Dakota, American researchers reported in the open access [...]
Archive for the ‘Bee Present’ Category
Fly Parasite Turns Honeybees into “Zombies”
Posted in Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
2011 in review
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many [...]
The Bee by Edwin Curran
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The singing bee comes like a little ship, And docks beside a rose for cargoed wine, Its gossamer paddles spinning in the air A little plane upon the flower vine. It anchors in the bell upon its quest, And lulls its motor in the crimson bower, Then with its honey glides on to the west, [...]
Christmas Bee Snowflake
Posted in Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Snowflakes are beautiful decorations on Christmas Day. Why not make your own? Rowse Honey have a lovely site with two designs. All you need is a pair of scissors and a grownup to help you. Make a few if you like. You can colour them in too, or add some glitter to make them even more [...]
The Beehive Ark
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping on October 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I came across this amazing beehive design at a Woodfair recently. Please find the full story of this unique design for a top-bar hive below the photograph with the designer’s contact details if you want more information: My initial inspiration to create a curved hive was from the curved structure of honeycomb created in top-bar [...]
Bees Don’t See Red!
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What colors creatures see has long interested scientists, and aside from us, more is known about what colors bees see than any other living thing. Like us, bees are trichromatic. Whereas we base our color combinations on red, blue, and green, bees base all their colors on UV, blue , and green. Just as color [...]
Best Bee Animation Ever!
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beetwixt & Beetween on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The following animation takes my vote for the best animated bee movie ever: Here is some background on Dot’s story (running away from her world as it is being destroyed – and saved by a bee!). It also gives some great insights into the world’s smallest film (even though it is a subtle advert for [...]
Global Bee Emergency!
Posted in Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping on January 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
CLICK HERE or on the photo below to sign the petition to save bees and our crops and send this link to everyone you know! Quietly, globally, billions of bees are dying, threatening our crops and food. But a global ban of one group of pesticides could save bees from extinction. Four European countries have begun banning [...]
Bees Solve Travelling Salesman Problem
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
This Year’s Honey Harvest and Dissolved Notes
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
With the first two weeks on holiday, the bees had to wait until last weekend before I removed the honey. We took four full supers – which will produce a good crop – though I have not extracted it yet. Planning on that next weekend. I always leave a super on each hive to over-winter. [...]
