Category Archives: Educational opportunities
Thermal imaging for beehives – geeky or wise?
I’ve just been reading up about thermal imaging – in particular the FLIR camera lens for IOS. There is a great article here http://honeybeesuite.com/thermal-images-of-winter-bees/ – this blog from Rusty is so good that every beekeeper should read it – regularly. … Continue reading
A couple of IMPORTANT blog links/ tweets!
http://lenashareef.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/girlwithabook two girls have had the idea of asking people to send in photos of themselves reading books in support of Malala Yousafzai the girl who was shot by the taliban because of her belief in the right to … Continue reading
Posted in Educational opportunities, General beekeeping, Honey, Produce, Uncategorized
Tagged buy books, Education, female, freedom, independence, Malala, protest
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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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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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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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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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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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A potted view of the Hughenden Manor apiary project
This project is detailed more fully on another blog It is a project that allows others to understand a little more about bees and beekeeping with options for those who cannot become beekeepers themselves or those who are tempted but … Continue reading
Posted in Background, Educational opportunities, General beekeeping, Hughenden Manor Project, The Team, Uncategorized
Tagged apiary, bee, comb, entrance, hive, honey, pollen, swarm
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