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Bee Watering Station by Jacqueline Freeman
This bee waterer is designed to make sure the bees don’t fall into the water. If bees float on water, they have a hard time taking off. This waterer gives bees the ability to get all the water they want while keeping their feet on something firm.
Wonderful idea!
Farmer Marie Tedei has spent her life cultivating a business using chemical-free honey at Eden’s Garden CSA (community supported agriculture) farm in Balch Springs. Aerial spraying to control mosquitoes won’t take place over Balch Springs tonight, but Tedei fears the bees and her business could be affected by leftover chemicals in the rain. (Photos by Kye R. Lee/DMN)
Click the photos for captions and visit right here for the latest on West Nile virus control in Dallas County.
Bee Quilt
The material has been hand dyed with turmeric, tea and onions skins. Then hand printed with lino cuts to represent the larvae, workers, drones and the single queen bee. The quilt was then then pieced, quilted and bound by hand.
The bees are arranged in a rough imitation of the structure of a hive: the queen is surrounded by workers, each drone and larvae are attended by their own workers, while others form a circle to represent a “bee dance” and some stand guard at the entrance to the hive.
Bee-Inspired Collectibles:
Bee-Guiling Vases
An assortment of pressed-glass honey jars, many with honeycomb and ribbed straw patterns, dates from the late 19th century to the 1950s. They are ideal for blossoms of honeysuckle and other summer flowers. The tall jar with a label, probably of a beekeeper, is from the 1880s; in front of it is a 1930s pressed-glass jar patterned with hexagonal cells. During the Depression, jars that could be reused as decanters or bottles were a favorite of housewives. Today, these charming containers can be found at flea markets.
(via DIY Honeycomb Shelves - A Beautiful Mess)
Aganetha Dyck is a sculptor, who initially worked with a range of sculptural media like wool, cigarettes and buttons. Since 1991 she has concentrated solely on collaborating with the honey bee as architect and places ordinary objects in apiary hives allowing the bees to create honeycomb to encrust the objects.
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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were beekeepers, a hobby that was reflected in many of Plath’s poems and seems to have stemmed from a desire to feel grounded. When asked in a 1962 interview if she often hung out with other writers, she responded,
“I much prefer doctors, midwives, lawyers, anything but writers. I think writers and artists are the most narcissistic people. I mustn’t say this, I like many of them, in fact a great many of my friends happen to be writers and artists. But I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can’t understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I’m fascinated by this mastery of the practical. As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.”
Honeycomb (Taken with Instagram)
Photo Credit: John W. Poole/NPR “Somewhere along the road our Libyan driver, Mahmoud El Kish, pulled the car over. In front of us was a roadside stand, where young men were selling strong-smelling bunches of rosemary, sage, and mint. Mahmoud had his eye on something sweeter: Glass jars of pure honey.
He paid 20 Libyan dinars, about $15.00, for a single jar, which he considered worth the price. For one thing, it was said to be the most special of all kinds of Libyan honey, made by bees that feast on the flowers of the sacred sidrah tree.
More important, Mahmoud had a special purpose for the honey. He sipped it straight from the jar and then handed it to John Poole, our photographer. Both John and Mahmoud had been experiencing some stomach trouble along the road. “Drink this,” Mahmoud said. “It is good for the stomach. It’s like medicine.” READ MORE
Mites, virus team up to wipe out beehives Scientists believe the mites that spread the deformed wing virus are responsible for the colony collapse disorder that has been gutting the bee population.
Tree Hive [via Arıcılık Bilgileri]
MNN is giving away a beekeeping kit! Enter to win!
One winner will receive a custom kit from William Sonoma with essential tools and clothing you need to successfully manage a hive of honeybees—and harvest their honey.
Kit includes helmet, gloves, hive tool, bee brush, smoker and feeder.
      Adjustable vented helmet with pocket veil: Cool and lightweight polyester/nylon with a built-in sweatband. Veil has a drawstring bottom and tightly woven netting that works well against gnats and mosquitoes.
      Leather gloves: Soft cowhide leather with sturdy canvas sleeves.
      9” spring-steel hive tool: A must for beekeeping, this is a mini crowbar used for lifting, prying and scraping the frames.
      14” wooden bee brush: Long, soft bristles to gently brush bees away from frames and clothing.
      4” x 7” stainless-steel smoker: Equipped with a guard and easy-pump bellow.
      Boardman entrance feeder: Allows you to use your own Mason jar or #5 round jar for feeding syrup or supplementing water.
Prize Value: The approximate retail value of the prize (ARV) is: $240.
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Recipe: Bees Knees A speakeasy concoction fit for “Boardwalk Empire” with the sweetness of honey and the kick of gin.
I find it funny that you can order nearly anything in the mail, even bees. So, I made a book about life and geometry and the grey area between the two, packaged into a compact brown box.
The images of bees are linoleum carvings stamped onto amber lighting gel, and the box holds itself together with tiny jewelry magnets.
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The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Muddy Waters, The Stone Foxes, and many more - all performed the same song : "I'm a King Bee", a swamp blues song originally composed by Slim Harpo. In 2008, Slim Harpo's "I'm a King Bee" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which is meant to "honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance". Every artists lyrics varied somewhat from the original, and most varied somewhat from the scientific realities of drone bee (male bee) biology, but isn't that how metaphors are supposed to bee? Truly, bees have been part of musical traditions all over the world, so more on that later! Original Lyrics: Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' around yo' hive Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' around yo' hive Well, I can make honey, baby Let me come inside I'm young and able To buzz all night long I'm young and able To buzz all night long Well, when you hear me buzzin', baby Some stingin' is going on Well, buzz awhile (instrumental) 'Sting-a-been' Well, I'm a king bee Want you to be my queen Well, I'm a king bee Want you to be my queen Together we can make honey The world ever, never, seen (harmonica & instrumental) Well, I'm a king bee Can buzz all night long Well, I'm a king bee Can buzz all night long Well, I can buzz better, baby When yo' man is gone. (harmonica & instrumental fade to end)
Original Lyrics: Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' around yo' hive Well, I'm a king bee Buzzin' around yo' hive Well, I can make honey, baby Let me come inside I'm young and able To buzz all night long I'm young and able To buzz all night long Well, when you hear me buzzin', baby Some stingin' is going on Well, buzz awhile (instrumental) 'Sting-a-been' Well, I'm a king bee Want you to be my queen Well, I'm a king bee Want you to be my queen Together we can make honey The world ever, never, seen (harmonica & instrumental) Well, I'm a king bee Can buzz all night long Well, I'm a king bee Can buzz all night long Well, I can buzz better, baby When yo' man is gone. (harmonica & instrumental fade to end)
Listen to Slim Harpo's version here!
via (Ethnobeeology)
