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Bee happy

he was having a great time on my Choisya this morning...



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Good shot, SL! :)

30 Apr, 2012

 

Thanks Karen :-)

30 Apr, 2012

 

COol! I think |SUki might have a sting on her bottom lip..either that or its a rodent ulcer..shes had it before..they jsut seem to go away.

30 Apr, 2012

 

Thanks Pixi, aww poor Suki i hope she'll be ok, give her a hug from me :-)

30 Apr, 2012

 

Seems he was well pollen-packed already :))

30 Apr, 2012

 

:) it doesnt seem to bother her whatever it is ..not sure whether to take her to vet or not..all money eh?

30 Apr, 2012

 

he was a busy fellow on there Kat :-))

Yes that's true Pixi...

30 Apr, 2012

 

great shot - love insect pics

30 Apr, 2012

 

I wonder, SL, if bee is masculine gender in English? IN my language, it is "she". Slaves took bee as a symbol of a Big Mother. Seems you are more prone to Big Brother, lol.

30 Apr, 2012

 

...by the way, uhm, those workers are always "bee-women" :)

30 Apr, 2012

 

Thanks Paul :-)

i've no idea Kat, i just assume that the drone worker was male... but your probably right :-) i will bow in your wisdom he is now a she ;-)

30 Apr, 2012

 

lol Kat!

30 Apr, 2012

 

:-)

30 Apr, 2012

 

My wisdom is too far from bow, I bow in your beautiful photo. I know something about bees as my godfather kept them for decades. Women-bees, which we call "workers" pick up flower pollens, make honey and feed the Bee Queen. Men-bees are knocking around and fertilise the Bee Queen. We call them differentlu, unfortunately I do not know the English expression for them. In Slovak language the same term is used for those, who do not work, who do nothing, who are just living from work of others. That´s what I know about bees. As English is not my native language, I just wondered if it has different gender then in my language.

1 May, 2012

 

i would love to keep bees but my youngest is a bit scared of them so we couldn't do it, but they really are fascinating insects...

1 May, 2012

 

My husband keeps bees and I eat the honey! He came home with a HUGE swollen upper lip yesterday!

1 May, 2012

 

fantastic picture :)))))

1 May, 2012

 

I hope, Alexandra, that you kissed him :)) He is doing wonderful job. My brother and me, when we were children, we used to sit at our godfather, when he was cutting honeycomb off frames and we often got pieces of honeycomb, packed with golden honey. We got them in a glass, we were picking it, sitting and chewing as chewing gums. That was sooo delicious :)))

1 May, 2012

 

Thanks Mark :-)

Hope he's ok Alex,Sounds wonderful Kat, I just love honey..

1 May, 2012

amy
Amy
 

He's a busy bee , my son has recently been on a Bee keeping course ... he's undecided as to whether he will keep some ,I think he would like to ...

1 May, 2012

 

He was Amy :-) i wish i could too, good luck to your son if he does start, can't beat fresh honey like that...

1 May, 2012

amy
Amy
 

Thanks I will tell him He has a friend who keeps bees , he brought a jar of his honey down for us at Christmas ,it was delicious ... I suppose the main thing is where to keep them he hasn't the room at his house but he does have an Allotment ....

1 May, 2012

 

Years ago I lived in a street of 4 in a block flats with shared back gardens. My next-door neighbour kept 2 hives in that garden (except in winter, when he stuck them up in the hills somewhere). The bees were never a bother...and the honey was delicious!!! :)))

1 May, 2012

 

Thanks Katarina and SL.....hubby all better today. My little boy likes chewing on the fresh honeycomb.

Amy tell him to go for it....it's so much fun and nothing beats fresh honey.

1 May, 2012

 

sounds lovely Karen :-)

That's good Alex glad he's better,,

1 May, 2012

 

Alexandra, kids know what is best for human body. Just adults transform it to their additives, lol. Did you hear about Campodimielle in Italy. Read it. It is interesting, yet forgotten story.

1 May, 2012

 

http://books.google.sk/books?id=Q1DCrC7vMagC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=campodimele+and+honey&source=bl&ots=xlYE1xBsXC&sig=Uavz_Gu8yraNl7UhTQPlu4XiNeE&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=9SugT4afGuSN4gSIkqzFAw&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=campodimele%20and%20honey&f=false

1 May, 2012

 

Upssss. The link went out of frame :)

1 May, 2012



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