#beekeeping

[systlin]

If anyone was wondering how the bees I found as a swarm thanks to a couple crows last year are doing, the answer is 'great'.

They wintered through with no problem and are out doing cleansing flights in the nice weather. I put out a feeder for them, which I need to refill today.

[desimonewayland]

Carlos Barahona Possolo

Beekeeping Faun, 2017

[bootleg-nessie]

If this post gets 1 upvote I will eat a bee

[madame-helen]

[brandyschillace]

Authors doing other stuff

Another day of not exactly writing things down… but worth it. Remember those videos of me building the hive?

Bees arrived!

Now we wait and hope they settle and accept the Queen.

UPDATE: they seem to have accepted the Queen; still monitoring but things seem positive!

[kbeescraft]

after work hangout 🌙

[samkingsketches]

I don’t usually post non-art stuff here but I’m realizing followers here might not have known I’m a backyard beekeeper! I’m in my third season and I go between 1-2 hives depending on how the season is going. We even got some honey last year!

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - February 8-14

(I’m finally starting to get better from having had pneumonia for 2+ weeks, hopefully next week’s news should be on time)

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1. Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel

“[The] solar-powered reactor could be used to make fuel to power cars and planes[.… It] does not require fossil-fuel-based power, or the transport and storage of carbon dioxide, but instead converts atmospheric CO2 into something useful using sunlight.”

2. How artificial light can boost coral reef recovery

“UZELA is [an autonomous submersible] designed to attract zooplankton […] by emitting specific wavelengths of light. [… In a ”six-month testing period,” it] significantly increased local zooplankton density and boosted the feeding rates of both healthy and bleached coral.”

3. Next-gen solar cells now fully recyclable with water-based method

“The recycled solar cell has the same efficiency as the original one. The solar cell is made of perovskite and the main solvent is water. […] They are not only relatively inexpensive and easy to manufacture but also lightweight, flexible and transparent.”

4. Green walls cool cities and create urban habitats

“The researchers measured a cooling effect of up to 0.6–0.7 degrees Celsius [… which] could help combat the urban heat island phenomenon. […] The researchers [also] found that plant-covered facades hosted over 100 animal species, including insects, spiders, and birds.”

5. Major cause of honeybee mortality can be easily reduced

“If treatment occurs too soon, it may not fully eliminate the mites, allowing them to rebound before the season ends. […] Similar to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, mites that survive mistimed or improperly applied treatments become more resistant to future applications.”

6. Uganda community group restores shea groves and livelihoods

“As part of a larger effort to restore Uganda’s shea parklands, the cooperative has successfully rehabilitated more than 500 hectares (1,240 acres) of degraded land, integrating shea trees (Vitellaria paradoxa) and other native species with maize and sunflower crops.”

7. Senate Renews Commitment to the Great Lakes

“The [Act] represents the most significant federal investment in the health of the Great Lakes, addressing critical challenges such as pollution, invasive species, and habitat restoration. The Great Lakes […] hold 20 percent of the world’s surface freshwater[….]”

8. Earth Gets Its Largest Protected Tropical Forest Reserve

“The Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor will […] protect 108,000 square kilometres of primary forest and support 60 million people who depend on the forest for food, energy and jobs. […] Through this approach, the DRC is empowering local communities to protect the forest while fostering economic growth.”

9. Australia’s Rarest Bird of Prey Spotted in Central Australia After 30 Years

“Dr. Henderson’s finding is an encouraging sign of the health of the sanctuary’s ecosystems as well as the bird’s continued migration into new areas. This bird’s presence in the sanctuary is particularly significant as it is the first confirmed sighting in the region since the mid-1990s.”

10. Australian company wins contract to design “hydrogen ready” high speed ferry

“The ferry, the Horizon X, will have capacity for 1,650 passengers and 450 cars, and will be able to travel at a speed of up to 35 knots. […] The ship will also have a specially-designed propulsion system arrangement that repurposes exhaust from the engine to help propel the vessel, in theory reducing its emissions.”

February 1-7 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[thinkingimages]

Beekeeper from the vincinity of Aranđelovac, Šumadija district, Serbia. Historic Museum of Serbia

[digitalfossils]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Some Beekeeping Vocabulary

for your next poem/story

Apiary - (or bee yard) The location honey bee colonies are kept in bee hives by a beekeeper.

Apiculture - (or beekeeping) The maintenance and raising of honey bee colonies by a beekeeper.

Apiology - The study of honey bees.

Bee bread - A mix of pollen, honey, and royal jelly prepared by the nurse bee for feeding the bee larvae, the drones and the queen.

Field bees - (or foragers) Worker bees that are usually 3 or more weeks old and work outside to collect nectar, pollen, water, and propolis. They are the ones more likely to sting.

Guard bees - Workers bees about 3 weeks old that have their maximum amount of alarm pheromone and venom. They challenge all incoming bees and other intruders.

Honey flow - (or nectar flow) An abundant source of nectar from trees and plants being collected by bees.

Nectar - A liquid rich in sugars, produced by plants and secreted by nectary glands in their flowers. Honey bees collect nectar as the raw material for producing honey.

Requeen - To replace an existing queen by removing her and introducing a new queen.

Sealed honey - (or capped honey) Honey that has fully ripened by bees and covered with cappings of wax.

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists

[hoziergifsdaily]

Andrew Hozier-Byrne + beekeeping (2/2) requested by anonymous

[timmurleyart]

Honey power. 🌼🐻🍯(60”x60” mixed media)🐝

[mankillercalledbunny]

BEEKEEPERS OF TUMBLR, LEND ME YOUR GRIPES!

I, like the character I'm writing, have only the vaguest understanding of beekeeping, and my intention is for him to run into all manner of problems. I'd like them to be both realistic and ridiculous, the kinds of things someone with 0 experience would ever expect to BE a problem he'd have to deal with, to be constructed into a humoursly troubled but eventually successful narrative. Please lay your wildest stories, best/weirdest tips, nerdiest complaints and most ridiculous or stupid issues (human-, bee-, or equipment-driven, take your pick) in my notes, and I will most happily incorporate whatever I can.

[brandyschillace]

AUTHORS DOING OTHER STUFF

Like putting together a bee hive. Badly. With the aid of Cheezits.

I’m not the only author who keeps bees by the way. I know @neil-gaiman used to keep them in Wisconsin. And Sherlock Holmes gave it a go, too, so it’s not a bad gig for a historian-turned-mystery-writer, either.

Yes. I might be procrastinating.