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diane_a@diasp.org
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My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.
We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all of their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.
Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

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clarice@diaspora.glasswings.com
clarice oncemore

Amegilla (Blue Banded Bee)

"There are now fourteen species of Blue Banded Bees recognised in Australia, ranging in size from about 9 to 14 mm. They are classified in two groups, Zonamegilla and Notomegilla, within the genus Amegilla. They are found in every state and territory of Australia, except Tasmania" according to Aussie Bee's pdf guide, which also mentions how the males attach themselves, by the jaws, to leaves or grass blades for a good night's sleep. The females are solitary ground-dwellers, building their nests in clay soil. Both are magnificent pollinators.

They have a lifespan of about six weeks, so are very busy!
Pictured here with Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ("leadwort")
#photo #bees #native-bees #Australia #plants #flowers #blue #myphoto #mywork

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dailyjoy@diasp.org
Kathryn Barr

Apparently NASA has a poster hanging with bees that reads:

"Aerodynamically a bee's body is not made to fly; the good thing is that the bee doesn't know".

The law of physics says that a bee cannot fly, the aerodynamic principle says that the breadth of its wings is too small to keep its huge body in flight, but a bee doesn’t know, it doesn’t know anything about physics or its logic and flies anyway.

This is what we can all do. Fly and prevail in every moment in the face of any difficulty and in any circumstance despite what they say.
Let us be bees, no matter the size of our wings, we take flight and enjoy the pollen of life.

art | 1890. Scientific Illustration of Bees/Insects. Alfred Edmund Brehm

#bees #encouragement

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silvialdovini@diasp.org
Silvia Aldovini

Adopt a Beehive
With my supermarket clubcard points I have decided to support this project in favour of beekeepers.
Scrolling through the long list of adoptable beehives in Italy... my choice fell on this one, mainly due to the name of the Queen Bee :)
Soon I will receive a link with which I can follow 'my' bees live...and later on I will receive a jar of their honey
I can't wait..
https://dia.so/6iH
#AdoptABeehive #Bees #Project #Italy

Gli alveari e le api di 3Bee

Ecco come adottare un alveare: Scegli il piano, scegli il miele, scegli l'alveare e proteggi le api.

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drnoam@diasp.org
Noam Bergman

Telling the #Bees is an old #tradition in England and elsewhere in Europe. #Beekeepers would inform their hives of important events in their family - births, deaths, marriages. It was believed that if the bees were not told, they might leave the hive or stop making #honey, or simply sting people and die.

Nice to see the tradition is being upheld, as the royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that the #Queen has died and #King Charles is their new boss. Sorry I could only find coverage of this in the Daily Mail.

The royal beekeeper - in an arcane tradition thought to date back centuries - has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.

And the bees have also been told, in hushed tones, that their new master is now King Charles III.

The official Palace beekeeper, John Chapple, 79, told MailOnline how he travelled to Buckingham Palace and Clarence House on Friday following news of The Queen’s death to carry out the superstitious ritual.

He placed black ribbons tied into bows on the hives, home to tens of thousands of bees, before informing them that their mistress had died and that a new master would be in charge from now on.

He then urged the bees to be good to their new master - himself once famed for talking to plants.

The strange ritual is underpinned by an old superstition that not to tell them of a change of owner would lead to the bees not producing honey, leaving the hive or even dying.

#pagan

Royal beekeeper informs the Queen's bees that Her Majesty has died

Royal beekeeper, John Chapple, has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen's death. The bees were also told King Charles is now their boss.

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