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How To Move A Colony of Bees

It is a difficult task to move a bee colony but it can be done It needs to be done in the Spring when the population of the colony will be smaller and the bees have time to prepare for winter. Here are two possible ways to move a honeybee colony that has established its self in a wall.

11 comments    education bees beekeeping
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Games That Promote Hand Skills for Ages 3 and 4

Games of dexterity and coordination for 3 and 4 year old children. Cootie, Lucky Ducks, Bean Bag Toss, Honey Bee Tree, Hungry Hungry Hippos, What’s in Ned’s Head, Poppa’s Pizza Pile-Up, Squiggly Worms, Mr. Potato Head, Fishin Fun.

6 comments    coordination children's games
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15 Amazing Healing Properties of Honey

At a time when we only need to turn on the TV to hear the side affects associated with this drug or that one, it is no wonder that people are turning back to gentler healing remedies and alternative...

17 comments    health healing honey
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Why saving the bees is so important for our world.

All elements of an ecosystem are important to the functioning of that ecosystem. Remove one element and the system will need to make adjustments. The effect of that adjustment may often not be known until...

7 comments    education food eating
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Manuka Honey Health Benefits

Manuka honey is a unique type of honey made by bees who gather nectar on the Manuka bush in New Zealand. This honey is known to have unique antibacterial and antimicrobial properties. In fact it has powerful...

0 comments    medicine honey new zealand
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Choose Your Garden - The Honey Bee Garden

I've written a good bit about honey bees in the past, mostly because saving the honeybee is important to me and should be to everyone else -- unless you plan on starving. They are in danger and need our help....

17 comments    garden herbs honey
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Death of the Honey Bees and the Rise in Autism: Super-Pesticides are Damaging Our Children

When I heard that the Honey Bees were dying out, I was sort of concerned. After all, bees are not usually considered man's best friend. We are brainwashed from day one into staying away from the pesky...

5 comments    health children government
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Plant a Bee Garden

Beneficial bees are necessary to the success of gardens, orchards, and farms, but their numbers are in decline around the world. A bee garden is a beautiful and fragrant way to lend a helping hand. ...

5 comments    how to recreation environment
âThe bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for othersâ -- Saint John Chrysostom77

Bee Inspired

The widest read and written literature in the world, next to that of man and his affairs, is the literature about the life of an insect. From the earliest days of learning down to now, poets, philosophers,...

20 comments    nature honey egypt
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Copperheads and Hornet Stings

We had just moved into a big two story house with huge rooms, and fourteen acres and I loved it. We always lived in big houses as I grew up, with acres of land and lots of places to roam. My two kids each...

2 comments    health advice hair
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