If you have a honeybee buzzing around you, obviously never swat at them. But there are 3 other things that no one mentions:
Pitch of buzzing: if it’s a low, calming buzz, the bee is either curious or tired. The colour of your clothes or your scent has gotten her curious. Allow the bee to buzz around you, so she can understand you are not a flower! Also, she may be tired from a long, honey and pollen- laden flight, and just needs to rest. Let her! She’s tired and just needs a minute to recoup. Honeybees are drawn to top-facing surfaces, so shoulders and heads are common places for them to land. You can also carefully, calmly redirect their path from hair and loose clothing, as they will get tangled up in them. If, however, the buzzing is higher pitched (sounds like an RC car), she is irritated. Calmlymove away.
Speed and pattern of flight: If the honeybee’s flight pattern around you is swift, with plenty of sudden direction changes, she is quitevexed with you. Do not swat, keep your hands by your sides, and move away from the bee. Honeybees that are agitated will follow for about 6 meters (about 20ft) before considering leaving. If the bee gets tangled in loose clothing or long hair, calmly part it, and let the bee free, without touching her. If her flight pattern is long, lazy circles, she is, again, merely curious about your presence. Ignore the bee, as best as you can.
Vibrations:Honeybees are sensitive to vibrations in the air, which includes your heartbeat and voice. The faster your heart rate or the more you scream/yell, the more agitated the bee will get. The faster the vibrations, the more the bee will attack. They become agitated because, for lack of a better phrase, it throws off their groove. Yes, sometimes it can be scary having a bee buzzing near you, but keeping your heart rate as normal as possible and being as quiet as you can, will have the bee on her way in no time.
TL;DR:Low and slow, the honeybee is curious. High and fast, the honeybee is furious.
“You are beautiful like a honey bee.. you nested in my heart and filled me up with the sweetest honey. You just buzzed right over, smiled with the sunrise, and sent shivers down my spine.. I say honey bee, cause honey bee so sweet that she is like nature’s sugar to me.”
You fill me with the sweetest buzz and hum of beauty when you are near - eUë
[A white fortune cookie paper with black text on the front and an icon of a bee. It reads: You have great business sense and will surprisingly succeed.]
The online preview for “Flesh & Bone” at BeinArt Gallery is now live! The show opens this Saturday and features so many amazing artists and artworks! Get a look at the preview here:
Opening this Saturday at BeinArt Gallery in Victoria, Australia, my piece, “New Home”, will be part of the group exhibition, “Flesh and Bone” that opens officially on Jan, 14th. It will be my first time showing with this amazing gallery!
A progress image of a piece I completed recently that will be on display at BeinArt Gallery in Australia in January! It’ll be a few weeks before I will post the whole image. Cute pigeons and phone photos for the win!
Between constantly posting pieces from my Corey Helford Gallery exhibition, I’ve been working on a few pieces for a couple places in January 2017. Below is a progress teaser for my piece, “New Home” that will be included in the “Flesh and Bone” exhibition at the wonderful beinArt Gallery! It’ll be my first time showing with this gallery that has a jaw-dropping list of artists. Eekkk!
Just stumbled upon this movement by Honey Nut Cheerios (yum) that is spreading the word about the bee population dying out…and they are even offering free seeds to plant bee friendly wildflowers.
Every frame of Honeyland pulses with the cycles of life and glows with the film’s subject, Hatidze’s, magical vitality and optimism. This visually sumptuous, vérité glimpse into a forgotten world is an ode to two endangered and priceless treasures: human decency and the delicate balance of nature.
With honey in tow, directors Tamara Kotevska (center) and Ljubomir Stefanov (2nd from left) and theHoneyland team premiered their documentary during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film took home multiple World Cinema Documentary awards including the Grand Jury Prize and two Special Jury Awards for cinematography and impact for change.
Honeyland opens in select cities on Friday, July 26.
A bee coming in for some poppy pollen, in a stunning border garden at a friend’s Summer House on Upper Notch Road, Bristol, Vermont. Lest you think I was insanely lucky, there are probably three other bees already in this poppy flower, they were constantly coming and going.
Beekeeping is a fun hobby. You get to learn about the #bees, food cycle, #Pollen, #Honey, #beeswax and all things related to #beekeeping industry such as the different beehives, beekeepers tools and different methods for keeping bees, maintaining bees and managing various parasites and bee related illnesses. If you are successful though, you get to share in the spoils of the honey bee. Once the beehive and the bee colony living within it grows to strong and healthy size, they will start to to produce more honey than they can consume. In late spring to early autumn usually. At these times, you get to harvest a few frames per hive and extract the liquid gold that has been gathered by the bees and capped over with a thin layer of perfectly white beeswax capping.
Once you rob a beehive of its fresh honey frames full of raw honeycomb, you need to extract the honey. There are many tools and methods you can choose to achieve this. If you are only a small backyard beekeeper, you will most likely not have at your disposal a honey extractor or a spinner, and nor would you need one either. You can use a simple crush and strain method which is simple to do and very cheap to make the equipment for. Although this is a more labor intensive method, and will also completely destroy the honeycomb foundation, you can easily extract 20-50 honey frames in this fashion and also recover enough beeswax a few raw beeswax candles as well. In our video, we give you a few tips on how to extract honey using the crush and strain method. We also take a close up look at the fresh raw honey we extracted and reveal some of the health benefits of honey, propolis, and beeswax. Enjoy the video, thumbs up and share. To support our channel, we invite you to subscribe. Every vote counts, and we would be happy to have you along for our beekeeping journey. Thank you for visiting our beekeeping YouTube channel MahakoBees
I just wanted to share a few things you can do to help our little friends! bees are so important, and they need our love.
build a bee hotel
you can use recycled materials you have on hand to create them. ( hollowed bamboo sticks, toilet paper rolls, planks of wood, etc. ) it’s also a good craft for the kiddos. get creative & have fun with it!~
hang your bee hotel on a tree, or a high up spot where nothing can disturb it.
make a watering station
it’s super duper easy to do, and all you need is a shallow dish and some pretty stones! bees get thirsty, and you’ll be helping them out. especially when it gets real hot out!
plant flowers and herbs
not only is gardening fun & therapeutic for you, but the bees appreciate it too. also, you can use the flowers & herbs grown for your craft! bonus!!
here are just a few of their favorite plants:
basil
mint/catmint
rosemary
sage
yarrow
lavender
sunflowers
poppies
asters
zinnias
salvias
marigolds
cosmos
…and there’s waaay more! garden to your heart’s content, and watch the magic happen~
don’t use pesticides or harmful chemicals on your lawn or garden
this one is pretty self explanatory. if you want a safe environment for your bee friends, try not to use any harsh chemicals on your plants. if you have issues with destructive bugs, use organic methods to shoo the pests away.
here are a few organic alternatives to using pesticide!:
eggshells
hot peppers
tumeric
banana and orange peels
here’s a great site if you’d like to read more about it!:
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