#BEEKEEPERS

[geohoneylovers]

Creating a buzzworthy haven for our pollinator pals 🐝🌼 Provide Nesting Sites: Many native bee species are solitary, and they nest in the ground, hollow stems, or other small cavities. Leave some areas of your garden with undisturbed soil or create nesting structures, such as bee hotels, to support these bees.

[theweeowlart]

🔴Sold

This drawing is now sold, thank you. I will do more bee art soon. If you are interested in seeing or purchasing my art, I'd love you to visit my Etsy shop. *shop link in my profile

[crazycatsiren]

Honey bee infodump time again:

A queen bee, unlike a worker bee, can sting more than once.

When the worker bees of a colony need to make a new queen, they will grow up to 6 queen bees to hatch at around the same time. The queen bees then fight to the death, and in the end, the only one left standing, the triumphant surving victor, becomes the queen of the colony.

So. The Bee Hunger Games.

[beasbees]

Next week is our final week of bee pick ups, and the end of bee season! It flew by; at first I thought it would never arrive, then I thought I would never survive it, and now I can't believe it's gone. Hundreds of happy customers and hives. 💖🐝

[stairnaheireann]

Bechbretha | Brehon Law on Beekeeping

In ancient Ireland, beekeeping was so important that there was a complete list of laws dedicated to beekeeping, called  ‘Bechbretha’, during the time of our Brehon laws. In the seventh century AD the laws were written down for the first time. Brehon law was administered by Brehons, or ‘brithem’ derived from the Irish ‘breitheamh’ meaning judge, the successors to Celtic druids. In many respects…

[pinkblanc]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, 1568

[shutterfox5555]

Canon 5D Mk3 with Canon 300mm f4 lens and Canon 1.4x extender

[elartistadelalambreworld]

[holisticdetective42]

This st. Valentine’s Day, remember not to exclude st. Valentine’s other favorite things in your celebrations, as he was not only the patron saint of lovers, but also beekeepers and people with epilepsy.

[liberateddev]

[superdogbiter]

For the people who answered yes how did the honey taste compared to store bought honey.Just curious

[geohoneylovers]

Learn the nutritional benefits of propolis and bee pollen! Boost immunity, enhance energy, and support skin health. Read our blog post to find out how these organic marvels might improve your well-being! 🍯

[20may]

Beekeeping is my way of life.

“Bees are extremely intelligent insects,” said Ligia Elena Moreno Veliz, from La Fé, Venezuela. Once afraid of the pollinators, through an FAO scholarship, she now runs a thriving business specializing in queen bee breeding and is passing on knowledge to others.

She also broke a glass ceiling. Today, while only four of the community’s 30 beekeepers are women, the taboo is now gone, she said.

Meanwhile, climate change is worrisome, she added. Climate instability, inconsistency in tree blooms and pollution cause bees to have new patterns of behaviour, adapting to the changes in flowering times.To address this challenge, Ligia Elena and her co-workers have planted new trees to attract bees again.

“Beekeeping is my way of life,” she said. “It is the livelihood of my family and an activity that I hope my daughters will continue to do in the future.”

Once afraid of bees, Ligia Elena now treasures these creatures that have given her a livelihood for the last 17 years, a livelihood that began with an FAO programme in her village.

[crazycatsiren]

The latest hive inspection revealed multiple queen cells that have hatched. So our girls are making (or have already made) a new queen.

It's entirely possible that that swarm in our tree was actually a portion of our bees led by the old queen. The colony has grown large enough to split. This is normal behavior for honey bees. Otherwise, honey bee colonies worldwide would never multiply.

[beasbees]

My very attractive, 'easy-day' work fit lol

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT AMBROSE OF MILAN Feast Day: December 7

"It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God."

Like Augustine himself, the older Ambrose, born around 340, was a highly educated man who sought to harmonize Greek and Roman intellectual culture with the Catholic faith. Trained in literature, law, and rhetoric, he eventually became the governor of Liguria and Emilia, with headquarters at Milan. He manifested his intellectual gifts in defense of Christian doctrine even before his baptism.

While Ambrose was serving as governor, a bishop named Auxentius was leading the diocese. Although he was an excellent public speaker with a forceful personality, Auxentius also followed the heresy of Arius, which denied the divinity of Christ. Although the Council of Nicaea had reasserted the traditional teaching on Jesus' deity, many educated members of the Church – including, at one time, a majority of the world's bishops – looked to Arianism as a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan version of Christianity. Bishop Auxentius became notorious for forcing clergy throughout the region to accept Arian creeds.

At the time of Auxentius' death, Ambrose had not yet even been baptized. But his deep understanding and love of the traditional faith were already clear to the faithful of Milan. They considered him the most logical choice to succeed Auxentius, even though he was still just a catechumen. With the help of Emperor Valentinan II, who ruled the Western Roman Empire at the time, a mob of Milanese Catholics virtually forced Ambrose to become their bishop against his own will. Eight days after his baptism, Ambrose received episcopal consecration on Dec. 7, 374. The date would eventually become his liturgical feast.

Bishop Ambrose did not disappoint those who had clamored for his appointment and consecration. He began his ministry by giving everything he owned to the poor and to the Church. He looked to the writings of Greek theologians like St. Basil for help in explaining the Church's traditional teachings to the people during times of doctrinal confusion. Like the fathers of the Eastern Church, Ambrose drew from the intellectual reserves of pre-Christian philosophy and literature to make the faith more comprehensible to his hearers. This harmony of faith with other sources of knowledge served to attract, among others, the young professor Aurelius Augustinus – a man Ambrose taught and baptized, whom history knows as St. Augustine of Hippo.

Ambrose himself lived simply, wrote prolifically, and celebrated Mass each day. He found time to counsel an amazing range of public officials, pagan inquirers, confused Catholics and penitent sinners. His popularity, in fact, served to keep at bay those who would have preferred to force him from the diocese, including the Western Empress Justina and a group of her advisers, who sought to rid the West of adherence to the Nicene Creed, pushing instead for strict Arianism. Ambrose heroically refused her attempts to impose heretical bishops in Italy, along with her efforts to seize churches in the name of Arianism. Ambrose also displayed remarkable courage when he publicly denied communion to the Emperor Theodosius, who had ordered the massacre of 7,000 citizens in Thessalonica leading to his excommunication by Ambrose. The chastened emperor took Ambrose's rebuke to heart, publicly repenting of the massacre and doing penance for the murders. "Nor was there afterwards a day on which he did not grieve for his mistake," Ambrose himself noted when he spoke at the emperor's funeral.

The rebuke spurred a profound change in Emperor Theodosius. He reconciled himself with the Church and the bishop, who attended to the emperor on his deathbed. St. Ambrose died in 397. His 23 years of diligent service had turned a deeply troubled diocese into an exemplary outpost for the faith. His writings remained an important point of reference for the Church, well into the medieval era and beyond. St. Ambrose has been named one of the 'holy fathers' of the Church, whose teaching all bishops should 'in every way follow.'

Ambrose joins Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church.