Category Archives: Bee curious
Is this a Swiss Chalet for bees?
When beekeepers go on holiday, I am afraid they look out for local bees and local honey as well as taking time to admore the scenery. The first time I spotted what I was convinced was a Swiss version of … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Bee life, General beekeeping, Uncategorized
Tagged bee chalet, bee house
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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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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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Increasing the army to save the bees
We love those companies who join us in spreading knowledge about our bees and help us spread the word about ways in which individuals can promote bee health and preservation. In the UK the Co-operative has their Plan Bee website … Continue reading
Posted in Background, Bee curious, Bee life, Educational opportunities, General beekeeping, Natural world
Tagged bee, countryside, future, garden, golden bee, hive, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, points, save
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Unusual and beautiful
You tube really is a great resource – it isn’t all pop videos and scandal! For those who are curious about bees this can give a potted view of several aspects of beekeeping and bee life. Bees in pillar box … Continue reading
This is too much of a puzzle for me.
I am trying to collate some more resources for the Meet the Beekeepers event at Hughenden Manor as well as making a cake for the Penn football tournament and trying William and Kate’s favourite chocolate refrigerator cake – as per … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Educational opportunities, General beekeeping, Honey
Tagged bee model, beeswax, Candles, extractor, hive, skep
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More on bee sight
Have you come across the book BEE by Rose-Lynn Fisher? The book is predominantly pictures, grey scale pictures of the most exquisite details of honey bees. The magic of the pictures is hard to convey in mere words – which … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Bee life, Bee vision, Natural world
Tagged amazing, bee, bee eye, bee parts, book, compound, hairy, hexagonal sections, inspirational, magification, pictorial, Rose-lee Fisher
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How cool is this
I am trying to devise ways in which to help youngsters and adults understand bees and have been trying to devise a simple experiment or two that can be done under classroom conditions. I knew I needed to read up … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Bee life, Bee vision
Tagged 3d, B-eye, bee sight, compound eye, direction, flat, flower, image motion, intensity, interactive, lens, ommatidia, photoreceptor, pixel, prey, simple eye
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Failure shows glimmer of success
I wrote a couple of posts ago about an experiment that I thought youngsters might like – it started out as whether bees prefer certain colours. Of course we beekeepers know they do, but allowing children to discover the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Bee curious, Bee life, Bee vision, Educational opportunities, Forage plants, General beekeeping, Natural world
Tagged attract, Bees, colors, colours, lemon oil, pheromones, plants, single, stamens, sugar syrup, sught, veins, view
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