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.
Go go go!
reblogged from mothernaturenetwork source: mothernaturenetwork
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.
AHHHHHH
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)
‘The Life of the Bee’ by Edward Detmold, 1901.
reblogged from scientificillustration source: Flickr / odisea2008
Bee types.
I love bees, they pollinate the earth which allows for crops to go. They are such life bringers…so why swat at them when they are near?
I would like to be a bee-keeper, for one thing… my love of Pooh and I love them too, I should have written the essay last year, I know I could have won a box with all the fixings
