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Honey Bees in a Comb69

How You Can Help The Honey Bees

Imagine Thanksgiving dinner without cranberry sauce and pumpkin pies. Summers without strawberry shortcake and watermelon. Burgers without pickles, hot dogs without relish. Chips with no guacamole. Chinese...

4 comments    garden honey bees
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Healing Manuka Honey

Did you know honey saves lifes? A man with a very serious yeast infection in his leg facing leg amputation who was miraculously cured by Manuka honey, is the living proof. Antibiotics treatment and other...

0 comments    health honey natural remedies
Royal Jelly69

Royal Jelly Extract

What is Royal Jelly Extract? More and more often we are finding alternative cures for what ails us. Royal jelly extract is one such alternative. What is royal jelly extract? It is a substance...

0 comments    food fitness recipe
Bob Ewing photo76

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...

5 comments    education food eating
Image:Cornell University Master Beekeeper Program86

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 childrens games
Bees By Invitation Only79

Miss Daisy's Quilting Bee

In many parts of the country, the old-fashioned quilting bee is a thing of the past. it is an activity many young people have only heard of, even in today's rurual communities. It has gone to keep company...

3 comments    dog honey bees
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Extracting North Carolina Honey

My wife and my middle two kids (ages 16 and 13) are certified North Carolina beekeepers. They have several hives out in the garden, and every year in the May and June time frame is when we harvest the honey....

14 comments    honey honey bees raw honey
A Fictional Event In This Movie Could Become Our Reality70

The Plight Of The Honey Bee

A Fictional Event In This Movie Could Become Our Reality For those who saw "The Bee Movie" with Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zellweger, I am sure you found it funny and enjoyable. But here is some food for...

7 comments    cell phones global warming
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Solitary Bees

Solitary bees are the most common type of bee. When most people think of bees they think of swarms of social bees or honey bees. Most bees out there are solitary bees that live a solitary life as a single bee...

5 comments    hubchallenge nature garden
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