Honeybees and Easter
Posted by Alyssa Fine and Danielle Dale
"What are the first things that come to your mind when you think about the Easter holiday? Bunnies, baby chicks, egg dyeing, and of course many different candies… Do you think about honeybees? Many people don’t realize, but honeybees play a very important role in this special holiday because they produce beeswax."
Honeybees and Easter Posted by Alyssa Fine and Danielle Dale
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A very well written article about honey and backyard beekeeping.
"Larry Haigh's green half-acre sits just off Chuck Dawley Boulevard in Mt. Pleasant's Moss Park neighborhood, where the lot sizes are generous and many of the residents have tried their hand at gardening. Stepping off the screen porch into his backyard, Haigh spots a bluebird resting in the boughs of a pear tree and then takes note of his grapevines, still brown and clutching an arbor frame in the final days of winter. In the middle of the garden sit two humming boxes where industrious honeybees toil away producing the year's first outpouring of liquid gold." Backyard honeybees make liquid gold by Paul Bowers "Checker boarding is a simple and elegant swarm management tool. It uses the bee’s natural swarm and survival impulses to maximize hive populations and honey production. When checker boarding, empty comb frames are alternated with feed frames in supers directly above the broodnest."
Checker Boarding Dennis Murrell - The BeeNatural Guy Sugar could be scary bad. Honey seems to be the only safe, healthy sweetener around.
" The fructose component of sugar and H.F.C.S. is metabolized primarily by the liver, while the glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized by every cell in the body. Consuming sugar (fructose and glucose) means more work for the liver than if you consumed the same number of calories of starch (glucose). And if you take that sugar in liquid form — soda or fruit juices — the fructose and glucose will hit the liver more quickly than if you consume them, say, in an apple (or several apples, to get what researchers would call the equivalent dose of sugar). The speed with which the liver has to do its work will also affect how it metabolizes the fructose and glucose. In animals, or at least in laboratory rats and mice, it’s clear that if the fructose hits the liver in sufficient quantity and with sufficient speed, the liver will convert much of it to fat. This apparently induces a condition known as insulin resistance, which is now considered the fundamental problem in obesity, and the underlying defect in heart disease and in the type of diabetes, type 2, that is common to obese and overweight individuals. It might also be the underlying defect in many cancers. If what happens in laboratory rodents also happens in humans, and if we are eating enough sugar to make it happen, then we are in trouble." Is Sugar Toxic? By GARY TAUBES If it works for the bees, then it works for me.
"Research from North Carolina State University shows that honey bees 'self-medicate' when their colony is infected with a harmful fungus, bringing in increased amounts of antifungal plant resins to ward off the pathogen." Bees 'self-medicate' when infected with some pathogens Credit: Michael Simone-Finstrom, North Carolina State University "I'm sure all of us that hunt or fish have some stories that weren't funny at the time but we can see the humor in them now.
Last sat. my pastor and a buddy of mine went trout fishing and my pastor pushed a limb out of the way and it had a hornet nest in it. He took off running down the creek and only got stung once. My buddy ran into the swarm and got stung 13 times and then realized his glasses had fallen off so he went back to get them and got popped again. My pastor told him 'you know I was praying for you all the time'. My buddy told him I ain't as dumb as I look I can tell the difference between praying and laughing." Funny Bee Sting Stories No. GA. Mt. Man Notice in these stories that it's not honey bees doing the stinging. The culprits are usually hornets and yellow jackets. |
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