The author of the “beekeepers bible” has died aged 92. Not a bad innings, as they say in cricket! More at: http://www.britishbee.org.uk/news/obituaries/ted-hooper-1918-2010.shtml
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Ted Hooper RIP
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on March 30, 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 [...]
The Bee-Man of Orn
Posted in Bee Lore, Beetwixt & Beetween on February 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the ancient country of Orn, there lived an old man who was called the Bee-man, because his whole time was spent in the company of bees. He lived in a small hut, which was nothing more than an immense bee-hive, for these little creatures had built their honeycombs in every corner of the one room it contained, [...]
Polish Beekeeper Brought Back from the Dead!
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Polish beekeeper pronounced dead after he suffered a suspected heart attack was about to be sealed up in a coffin when a funeral director miraculously discovered a faint pulse. Jozef Guzy collapsed as he started work among his beloved hives near the southern city ofKatowice. An ambulance was called and an experienced doctor declared [...]
The Bees of Myddelton Manor
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“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 [...]
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 [...]
