Bees

“We have chose to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.” --Jonathan Swift: 

'We have chose to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.' --Jonathan Swift

Honeybees: 

. . . For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom. Honeybees William Shakespeare King Henry V

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Bee values…: 

Bee values… Importance of Bees Pollination Honey Healthful Properties To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. Emily Dickinson

Honey variations…: 

Honey variations… Honey . . . It’s Special Approximately 300 varieties of honey in US Varies from water-white Bass Wood to rich dark Buckwheat Lighter-colored honeys usually are milder in flavor Darker honeys tend to have higher mineral content andamp; antioxidant potential Honey . . . The Taste of America’s Flowers Because of floral sources, no two honeys are alike in flavor or nutritional content

Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants: 

Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants Queen And for their monarch Queen – an egg-casting machine, Helpless without attendance as a farmer’s drill. Robert Bridges 'The Testament of Beauty'

Caste SystemDuties of Hive Occupants: 

Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants Workers All we need is to be industrious not like a machine but like the honeybee. Mahatma Gandhi

Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants: 

Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants Drones From the Lime’s leaf no amber drops they steal, Nor bear their grooveless thighs the foodful meal; On other’s toils, in pamper’d leisure, thrive The lazy Fathers of th’ industrious hive. John Evans 'The Bees'

Bee threats…: 

Bee threats… Varroa destructor…

Colony Collapse Disorder…: 

Colony Collapse Disorder…

Africanized honeybees…: 

Africanized honeybees… XXX

Getting started…: 

Getting started… Package Bees Nucleus colonies Catching a swarm Some have said that a share of divine intelligence is in bees. Virgil, Georgics