Beez Pleez

[NotHardUp1]

Personally if I was ever rich I would want to put some hives on top of schools and let kids learn about them as a science class. Also on top of grocery stores and skyscrapers if conditions were right.

Sadly, because a few people are fatally allergic to stings, I'm sure no school is willing to incur the liability of litigation in the event of a child's death, or injury from anoxia.
I love bees, but understand why a parent would freak if the school had hives and his child was allergic. An epi-pen is only a partial measure and must be deployed quickly to intercede the reaction.

 

[TickTockMan]

Sadly, because a few people are fatally allergic to stings, I'm sure no school is willing to incur the liability of litigation in the event of a child's death, or injury from anoxia.
I love bees, but understand why a parent would freak if the school had hives and his child was allergic. An epi-pen is only a partial measure and must be deployed quickly to intercede the reaction.

Oh I was thinking more specialty schools. Ones that teach botany and other animal classes hands on. Besides legal issues too many city folk are bee haters. When I was going to classes and meetings one of the other members was fighting with a neighbor about their hives even after the city said no laws were being broken.


It would be interesting to put them on grocery stores though. I have seen a couple pictures of gardens on top of stores and most that is grown is then sold in said store. Probably would only work in smaller and rural areas.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I can see it in a charter school.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions – here's a look at how they navigate the world

Scientists are learning amazing things about bees’ sensory perception and mental capabilities.

theconversation.com

 

[NotHardUp1]

There has been quite a bit of recent research about insects thinking and deciding.

It's pretty impressive considersing what they don't have by way of brains.

I, for one, never doubted for a moment that those wasps up on that nest were calculating and observing and recalculating whether to sit tight and not give themselves away, or take flight and attack me. You can SEE them watching you! Of course, it doesn't mean that their principal decisions are not instinctively triggered.

 

[me203]

It's pretty impressive considersing what they don't have by way of brains.

Well, they may have more in the brains department than some people out there!

 

[NotHardUp1]

True, but from an anatomical perspective, they have truly tiny brains: https://www.hiveandhoneyapiary.com/Fascinating-Facts-About-The-Honey-Bee-Brain.html

 

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”

—
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine

 

[TickTockMan]

Happy National Bee Day!

 

[rareboy]

So all the hives seem to be thriving and enjoying the spread of dandelions and apple blossoms. They didn't even pay me any attention when I drove around the enclosure on the lawn tractor.

The also good news?

I think that some of them may have hived off as it were and repopulated the beehive in the east wall of the house.

The bad news of course is that it means one more year where I can't get some needed repairs done to the window sills and brick on the bay window.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Hungarian beekeepers find a haven for bees in Kyrgyzstan

Describing the Toktogul region, Ferenc Takács from Fulmer says: “This is a heaven for bees because it is a heaven for flowers.”

globalvoices.org

 

[rareboy]

We are getting another two hives set up this weekend. I still have to get out there and get my bee drag.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

@rareboy, you should sell of your wine cellar and start collecting bottles of exquisite Kyrgyz and Ethiopian and New Zealand honeys.

 

[me203]

wine cellar

I wonder if the bees invade the wine cellar if they'll feel a buzz afterwards.

 

[rareboy]

@rareboy, you should sell of your wine cellar and start collecting bottles of exquisite Kyrgyz and Ethiopian and New Zealand honeys.

I have always tasted and then taken home a jar of honey from every country or region we visit so it is right on the mark that this would be my thing. I am always praying that it passes right on through the hand baggage check in if it is small enough quantities...because God knows I wouldn't put it in checked luggage.

We also have friends who bring me honey when they travel and then we make something with it.

As for the the last of the wine...I'll just keep drinking it until it is gone.

 

[rareboy]

Probably why I can't fly.

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground," the opening of Bee Movie says. "The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."

The Strange Myth That Bees Shouldn't Be Able To Fly According To Physics

According to the story, an aeronautical engineer concluded that they shouldn't be able to fly at all.

www.iflscience.com

 

[NotHardUp1]

I saw this yesterday and thought it marvellously clever.

Hornets can live where our dwindling bees do not.

 

[TickTockMan]

I saw this yesterday and thought it marvellously clever.

Hornets can live where our dwindling bees do not.

I get why, but seems mean.


Varroa mites tend to be a bigger issue here in the US. I wonder what causes more issues in Japan/Asia.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I get why, but seems mean.


Varroa mites tend to be a bigger issue here in the US. I wonder what causes more issues in Japan/Asia.

It doesn't follow that you ignore mites, but where hornets predate, they can devastate a hive.

And, since hornets will keep coming back over and over and over to take the bees, eliminating them is the solution.

Although not in favor of wiping out any species, I'm perfectly ok with suppressing hornet populations until the bees recover.

Of course, honeybees are not native to the Americas, so it is likely we have less problem here with hornets.

Husbandry almost ALWAYS involves selective preservation of one species to the detriment of others. You can't have livestock and not manage the predators that would feed upon them. We spray for roaches, but they don't go extinct. I doubt trapping a local population of a few hornets devastates their species' chances in North Americ.