The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication~
on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.
~The Honey Bee~
Bees are a sisterhood of workers,devoted to each other and to the work that is so important to them. Bees have a unique kind of communication called the "Waggle Dance" This type of communication is very sophisticated and unique to the Honey Bee.
Sadly something is going on world wide with our bees…they are disappearing and the scientists do not know why. It is becoming increasingly more important to raise bees and help, if even in a small way. Here is a little segment on a tv special that was done recently, explaining the sad situation. Hopefully the Beekeepers and the Scientists can unlock the mystery of CCD (colony collapse disorder)
Ok….so I bet you are wondering where the contest part is?
Leave a comment with your favorite good or bad bee story. If you do not have a bee story, then a simple Buzzzzzzzzzz….will do. The contest prize will be a skein of my new Bambino yarn in Tupelo honey with a Marie Antoinette pattern, a braid of Tupelo Honey angora blend roving and this sweet little Bee pin made by Rachel Badeau .
I will use a random calculator to pick a winner on Halloween (Friday). I am looking forward to hearing from you!
Lastly, for you Manise, my friend, a favorite little bee ditty…. "Community" (send them scurrying…)
The Woolen Rabbit 
Several years ago I was pulling weeds in front of my house. I pulled on some sort of vine that was anchored extremely well in the ground. Evidently a nest of bees (maybe yellow jackets?) had made a nest at the base of it. When it broke loose from the ground they were not pleased and flew up my pants. My neighborhood got quite a show as I stripped off my clothes and my husband sprayed me with the garden hose! Luckily no bad reactions to all the stings and I bear no grudges to honeybees. Love the prizes, hope I win!!
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i love to watch the big fat bumbly bees go about their work. i will happily watch them as long as they are near. my partner and i even had a bumblebee on our wedding cake!
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The only bee story that I can think of is a silly one. I was very afraid of bees and always avoided them. One day I was in the shower and somehow, a half-dead bee got into the room and was resting (un-bee-knownst to me) on my towel. I was drying off and got stuck in a delicate spot but spent a very, very long time trying to figure out who to tell and what to do about it (I was about 10 at the time and very freaked out).
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We’re heavily involved in scouting and there was an encounter with bees (yellow jackets to be precise) and a young Tiger Scout. One stung him on the shoulder. We created a “Bee a Brave Scout” award for him because he was so brave.
Of course, I didn’t get awarded one although I was stung SEVEN times trying to get him away from the nest.
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My favorite bee story is not really a story. I am happy to have two hives in my yard and proud that my sons aren’t scared of them. And we try our best to rescue them from the pool. Buzzzzzzz
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Bzzzzz! I’m trying to convince my husband we need hives.
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I was never very fond of honey until I tried some produced by a local beekeeper who sells at our farmer’s market. He avoids putting his bees into commercially farmed fields, and so far has not suffered from CCD. And his honey is just fantastic — complex, layered with flavor, but really mellow. We now have about a dozen different varieties in the cupboard. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he can continue to keep his bees healthy!
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I love sitting and ignoring bees when other people flip out about them. I’ve never had one sting me (I’ve had hornets sting me, but that’s different) so I’m not really scared. I always feel superior. With the exception of people who are allergic… they have a right to flip out.
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I don’t have a good bee story, but I surely do love honey….Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Thanks
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I don’t have a bee story, so BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
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Some of my earliest memories are of eating honey…chewing the comb…making the back of my throat tickle…YUM. I love yummy yarn too.
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Bzzzzzz, no good bee stories but no bad ones either. I’m hoping this is a temporary situation that we can correct.
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Bzzz… I personally love a spoonful of honey from time to time.
Wonderful contest
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I’m a HUGE advocate of buying local honey.
1. Because buying local is always best.
2. Because it can help alleviate allergies to the indigenous flora.
So since we’ve recently moved from the northeast (which I miss dearly) to AZ, we’re now buying a lovely desert honey that’s the perfect compliment to my iced tea!
And just because it’s fun to say…..
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 😉
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My grandmother had arthritis shw swore that honey and apple cider vinegar consumed every day help tremendously with her ailments she lived to almost 100 yrs of age.Hugs Darcy
Here is another Bee Metric
The French physicist Rene-Antoine de Reaumur was so impressed by the geometrical perfection of the hexagonal cells in a beehive that he once suggested adopting the honeycomb as the basis for a system of measurement.
[Trivia: In 1947, an amateur apiarist in Acton, on the outskirts of London, found 240 pounds of marmalade in his six hives. The bees had stolen the marmalade from a local preserve factory and delivered it to their owner’s basement flat garden.]
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Bzzzzzzz no bee story but I did really love the book ‘the secret life of bees’
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My bad bee story is that I have had no luck the last year or so growing squash. I am pretty sure that the problem is lack of bees to pollinate the squash flowers! So know I wish for more bees every spring in hopes of a better garden. 😛
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I don’t have a story, but how about a little trivia?
Number of bees equal to the weight of one M&M’s plain chocolate candy
9-10
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Eddie Izzard has a hilarious bit about bees and beekeepers.”I’m covered in bees!”
Great contest!
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Pedigree
The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, anytime to him
is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
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My father had a tie with the details about “the love life of the bee” printed on it. It was one of two which I stole from him when I became a teenager.
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Not much of a story, but every year I’m fascinated by the bee display at the State Fair. I love the way they design their dwellings.
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