A little less honey… #WordlessWednesday

10 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by barbtaub in Barb's Commentary

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bees, honey, sadness

And the world a little less sweet…

I arrived home after two days away to find windowsills covered with bee corpses.

12 thoughts on “A little less honey… #WordlessWednesday”

linda1633 said:

May 10, 2017 at 7:06 pm

You have suicidal bees?!
Thank this urge for self destruction could be passed on to wasps, by any chance? I’d be willing to pay passage for some of those bees.

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- barbtaub said:
  
  May 10, 2017 at 7:14 pm
  
  Somehow I don’t think I could mourn wasp suicides.
  
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  - linda1633 said:
    
    May 10, 2017 at 7:21 pm
    
    I’d be very happy to have suicidal wasps. One of those dive-bombing terrorists stung me right on the top of the head. I won’t be mourning them.
    
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Stacy McKitrick said:

May 10, 2017 at 8:26 pm

I’d be freaking out if I saw that in our house. I can only assume a swarm flew by and they got lost? Ugh…

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- barbtaub said:
  
  May 10, 2017 at 10:40 pm
  
  According to neighbors there is a local swarm that occasionally makes it over to our side of the island. Local beekeepers have been trying to capture and relocate the queen and her bees, but so far haven’t had much luck.
  
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Mary Smith said:

May 10, 2017 at 9:05 pm

Don’t know why I clicked like – I don’t like at all. Poor bees.

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- barbtaub said:
  
  May 10, 2017 at 10:38 pm
  
  I completely agree with you. Such a waste. Apparently, according to some neighbors, there are wild bees that occasionally swarm. Local beekeepers have tried to capture the queen in hopes of relocating them to a safer place, but so far have not had success.
  
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  - Mary Smith said:
    
    May 10, 2017 at 11:21 pm
    
    I should send over our local honey man. He captured his first swarm of bees when he was a young boy (he’s now in his 80s). They all died because he didn’t know what he was doing. However, the next time he was successful and and manged to keep the swarm alive. He used to go to school with his bag full of jars of honey to sell. He has been producing honey ever since – Urr Valley Honey. Next time you are down my way I’ll introduce you to it – and him, if you want. Not sure if the still does but at one time he supplied the Royal household.
    
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noelleg44 said:

May 11, 2017 at 2:08 am

Inside the house? I would freak out. I wonder if they were infected with the bee virus?

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- barbtaub said:
  
  May 11, 2017 at 6:54 am
  
  Okay, first I had to look up the bee virus, as I had no idea it was even a thing. And wow—it’s pretty scary. There have been outbreaks in the north of Scotland over past few years, but nothing spotted (at least yet) here on Arran. I know there is an active beekeeper association here on the island, so I’m guessing they are watching carefully for any signs of that. But bees are so important! I’ve seen estimates that over half the food we eat depends on pollination at some point in its food chain.
  
  There is a (probably apocryphal) statement attributed to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”
  
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Judith Barrow said:

May 11, 2017 at 6:48 am

Such a shame.

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LD Masterson said:

May 11, 2017 at 2:27 pm

That is sad. I have a bee-friendly garden to support the little things. It would be heartbreaking to see so many like that.

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