Tag Archives: pollen
Awe and wonder by the flowerful – not enough in our classrooms.
Ready for some awe and wonder? Look here http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/pollination.html short videos of such beauty – if you are a teacher, try them as your students settle at the beginning of a lesson. There is even one captioned in French for … Continue reading
Posted in Background, Bee curious, Bee life, Bee Photography, Forage, Forage plants, Garden area, General beekeeping, Honey, Hughenden Manor Project, Natural world, night foraging, Uncategorized
Tagged awe, bats, Bees, birds, butterflies, chroma key, communicate, create, curriculum, Education, flowers, pollen, pollination, prescriptive, stop motion, video, Wonder
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It has been a while …Floriade, be a bee, geocaching all comes together
My visit to Floriade and subsequent excitement following the tagged bees has been documented before. My ‘friends’ Wilke and Marjon, and Naomi and Jenny and their trips to collect pollen or nectar occupied hours of my time. I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis of live bee data from tagged bees, Bee curious, Bee life, Educational opportunities, Forage, Fun events, Garden area, General beekeeping, Hughenden Manor Project
Tagged adventure, Bees, container, family, garden, geocache, GPS, hive, log, magic, map, map coordinates, muggle, nectar, pollen, swarm, treasure
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Persistent poppies
There is something both mysterious and magical about the explosions of poppies you sometimes see at this time of the year. Today I caused Emily, the voice of my Sat Nag a few moments of confusion when I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Forage plants, General beekeeping, Natural world, Uncategorized
Tagged Bicester, Oil seed Rape, pollen, poppy
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It isn’t the knowledge you have it’s the questions you ask ….
One of my favourite truths as an ex-teacher is that intelligence is more about the questions you ask than the answers you give. I have had several experiences lately that have led to lots of questions – mainly towards the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis of live bee data from tagged bees, Bee curious, Bee life
Tagged analyse live data, answers, beepaviljoen, filter, Floriade 2012, honey stomach, inside hive, intelligence s, live data, nectar, pollen, pollen sac, questions, sort, tagged bees, trips to collect nectar, trips to collect pollen, web query
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Great experience
My short visit to Floriade, especially the bee pavilion lived up to all expectations – in fact exceeded them. When you enter the pavilion you are given one of two scanners – for pollen, with a flower symbol or for … Continue reading
Posted in Bee life, Educational opportunities, Forage, Forage plants, General beekeeping, Honey, Natural world
Tagged 2012, bee pavilion, Floriade, nectar, pollen, scanner, score, total collected
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Forget me nots
I started wondering whether the simple forget-me-nots around my hives were of any benefit to the bees. Wikipeadia says yes for pollen and nectar – and they are the same family as borage. From The Wildlife Trusts website: Like many … Continue reading
Posted in Apiary layout, Forage, Forage plants, Garden area, General beekeeping
Tagged allium, borage, Forget-me-knot, hive, nectar, pollen
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The humble dandelion
When we inspected the hives at Hughenden Manor yesterday, the pollen being brought in seemed particularly vibrant in colour. We saw bright yellow and also a bright orange. I’d not anticipated such generous pollen loads with the days of heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged amino acids, Dandelion, monofloral, orange, pollen, pollen presentation, temperature, time
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Pollen; I never imagined it could fill a fascinating hour long talk
Bucks County Beekeepers Seminar Day has three hour long talks and each one I have seen has been of a high quality and has highlighted aspects of beekeeping or related life to an extent that has almost surprised me. They … Continue reading
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Tagged holly, honeysuckle, pollen, varroa sheet
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What a wonderful idea – getting children interested in bees
Thank you SurreyBeekeeper So, basically the suggestion is a set of shapes of several colours should be set out with ‘centres’ of small containers such as bottle tops into which some sugar syrup can be placed. A tally chart to … Continue reading
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Tagged hyacinth, mother's day, pink, pollen, poppy
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The magic of pollen
My first view of a frame with glistening cells of pollen caused one of those little pangs – the sort of ‘awe and wonder’ we teachers were encouraged to display for our pupils. I hadn’t fully appreciated the range of … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Bee life, Forage, Forage plants, General beekeeping, Natural world, Red pollen
Tagged autumn, cells, forage, glisten, grains, honey bee, interactive, pollen, protein, season, spring, winter, young
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