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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
Honeybee, by wolfpix80

Bee, Wasp, or Yellow Jacket?

I have to confess, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when people call wasps and yellow jackets "bees." I'm not even a beekeeper, I guess it just upsets me because it gives bees a bad rap... and they're having...

14 comments    nature insects bees
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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
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Disappearing Honeybees

Just now making the news, beekeepers are alarmed that honey bees are disappearing in record numbers. Thats right, I said disappearing: The male drones leave the hive and simply never return, leaving the queen and hive for parts unknown.

1 comment    entertainment end of the world teotwawki
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others” -- Saint John Chrysostom74

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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The plight of the bumblebee

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live."- Albert Einstein.Β  Incredible to think that the fate of mankind lies in the hands of a small insect...

7 comments    flowers plants flower
Bees By Invitation Only73

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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Can't Get A Buzz

In the end, with only seven hundred and ninety three people were left on earth, who could still afford to get a buzz, or at least the fruits of it, and even some of them were disappearing and dying off. Long...

15 comments    wealth honey bill gates
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Why Honey REALLY Isn't Vegan

For years past a continual debate has exploded onto the market over the use of honey by vegans, some claim its okay for vegans to use and others claim under no circumstance is it fundamentally or ethically...

2 comments    health food cooking
"May I Have This Dance?"71

How Eusocial Are You?

If you think about it, we are living in exciting times in terms of the social evolution of behavior, thanks to the Internet, like a bunch of bees in giant increasingly connected hives -- our social hives are...

23 comments    twitter social networking honey
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