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“ We have chose to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, which are sweetness and light. ” --Jonathan Swift
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... For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom. Honeybees William Shakespeare King Henry V
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Beehive
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Bee values … Importance of Bees Pollination Honey Healthful Properties To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. Emily Dickinson
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Honey variations … Honey... It’s Special Approximately 300 varieties of honey in US Varies from water-white Bass Wood to rich dark Buckwheat Lighter-colored honeys usually are milder in flavor Darker honeys tend to have higher mineral content & antioxidant potential Honey... The Taste of America’s Flowers Because of floral sources, no two honeys are alike in flavor or nutritional content
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Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants Queen And for their monarch Queen – an egg-casting machine, Helpless without attendance as a farmer’s drill. Robert Bridges “The Testament of Beauty”
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Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants Workers All we need is to be industrious not like a machine but like the honeybee. Mahatma Gandhi
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Caste System Duties of Hive Occupants Drones From the Lime’s leaf no amber drops they steal, Nor bear their grooveless thighs the foodful meal; On other’s toils, in pamper’d leisure, thrive The lazy Fathers of th’ industrious hive. John Evans “The Bees”
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Bee threats … Varroa destructor…
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Colony Collapse Disorder …
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Africanized honeybees… XXX
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Getting started … Package Bees Nucleus colonies Catching a swarm Some have said that a share of divine intelligence is in bees. Virgil, Georgics
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