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Honeybees

“ We have chose to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, which are sweetness and light. ” --Jonathan Swift. Honeybees. . . . For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom. .

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Honeybees

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  1. “We have chose to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.” --Jonathan Swift

  2. Honeybees . . . For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare King Henry V

  3. Beehive

  4. Bee values… • Importance of Bees • Pollination • Honey • Healthful Properties To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. Emily Dickinson

  5. Honey variations… • Honey . . . It’s Special • Approximately 300 varieties of honey in US • Varies from water-white Bass Wood to rich dark Buckwheat • Lighter-colored honeys usually are milder in flavor • Darker honeys tend to have higher mineral content & antioxidant potential • Honey . . . The Taste of America’s Flowers • Because of floral sources, no two honeys are alike in flavor or nutritional content

  6. Caste SystemDuties of Hive Occupants And for their monarch Queen – an egg-casting machine, Helpless without attendance as a farmer’s drill. Robert Bridges “The Testament of Beauty” Queen

  7. Caste SystemDuties of Hive Occupants All we need is to be industrious not like a machine but like the honeybee. Mahatma Gandhi Workers

  8. Caste SystemDuties of Hive Occupants From the Lime’s leaf no amber drops they steal, Nor bear their grooveless thighs the foodful meal; On other’s toils, in pamper’d leisure, thrive The lazy Fathers of th’ industrious hive. John Evans “The Bees” Drones

  9. Bee threats… • Varroa destructor…

  10. Colony Collapse Disorder…

  11. Africanized honeybees… XXX

  12. Getting started… • Package Bees • Nucleus colonies • Catching a swarm Some have said that a share of divine intelligence is in bees. Virgil, Georgics

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