#apiaries

[loreeebee]

Honey Lovers Rejoice in Health Benefits

Did you know that honey has several health benefits? It’s known to have antioxidant, antibacterial, and anti-inflammtory properties and aid in combatting seasonal allergies. That’s lots of goodness in a natural sweetener. The Power of Antioxidants You’ve most likely seen honey flavoured cough drops and syrup, or been advised to add it to your tea when fighting a cold. That’s because of the…

[kampalaedgetimes]

How Beekeeping is Supporting Refugees in Kyangwali

The story of Samuel Usabuwera Samuel Usabuwera grew up in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement of Uganda, Africa, after his family was forced to flee Rwanda as a result of the Rwandan genocide. He and his family experienced firsthand the devastation of leaving everything behind and facing the daunting task of starting over on life with minimal support. Living in the midst of poverty, malnutrition,…

[thelaurenshippen]

I went to a farm yesterday and this little guy wants to leave the hive and become a writer.

[suzukiblu]

okay so i was kinda confused about the apiary thing and saw the powerpoint and fell into a rabbit hole and i now i wanna know are lois and bruce both have the queen role in clarks head

So Bruce is DEFINITELY a Queen in Clark's bee-brain, yes, Bruce is the QUEENEST of queens. Probably in Clark's brain he is the JL's or Gotham's queen. LOIS, however, he probably thinks of in the role of either an Arcadia or an Ivanhoe, because he thinks of her as an investigator--i.e., a hunter/gatherer of necessary resources ( a.k.a. information ) for the community that is Metropolis, so that Metropolis is operating with all the relevant information as often as possible--OR as someone who is defending Metropolis by exposing the truth of things, and therefore a warrior/worker who is part of the mechanisms of keeping corruption and crime at bay. Maaaaaybe he could parse her as a Kloka because investigation to article COULD be seen as a "resource management" thing, but I feel like Arcadia or Ivanhoe are likelier.

Not that Clark KNOWS any of these words, but yeah. Like, those are just the things he is feeling on an instinctive level, basically.

I kinda think Clark parses his "hive" as being Metropolis, and therefore himself and Lois and Jon as members of that specific hive. Smallville is the hive he came from originally and is still very attached to and cares about but couldn't have been what he's SUPPOSED to be in, and Gotham is a hive of its own.

Just while he does not consider himself or Lois as Metropolis's queen, he DEFINITELY considers BRUCE as Gotham's.

. . . come to think, probably part of Clark thinks of LEX as being Metropolis's queen and he is SO TETCHY about how BAD he thinks Lex is at it, and that is probably a not-insignificant part of why they both get under each other's skin so much, hahahaha.

Lex: how DARE people think Superman is more important to Metropolis/the world/humanity than ME, I am SO much more important than Superman, he is an INTERLOPER here ANYWAY. Clark: YOU ARE LITERALLY IN CHARGE OF THIS WHOLE DAMN PLACE, OH MY GOD, WHY ARE YOU SO INSECURE ABOUT IT, I'M JUST HERE TO HELP OUT. you know what, I am not even gonna GIVE you a baby, you don't DESERVE a baby from me!! you can have a baby when you get OVER yourself, MAYBE. Lois, taking more notes in red pen: uh-huh, honey. wanna expand on that thought process, maybe? Clark: /TEN-HOUR RANT/ Lois: . . . I think I'm gonna need a bigger notepad.

But yeah, Clark both considers Metropolis one giant hive and therefore a place with MANY smaller groups/factions/sectors having kids for the hive to thrive via, and he is also really, REALLY a Wife Guy for whom "acts of service" are SO very much his love language, so Lois is not a queen in his brain but he very much DID still want to get her a baby, haha. The reason he's so extra about getting specifically BRUCE a baby is that it's been, like, a decade-plus of Bruce repeatedly getting babies from OTHER PEOPLE and not asking HIM for any, but Lois married him and was in the process at least TALKING to him about the possibility of them having kids someday and therefore letting off some of his weird-about-it steam, because in his mind she was asking him FOR a kid and telling him what kind of kid she'd like. And then they had Jon, and she LOVES Jon, so Clark's all good there; Clark's the BEST . . . thing-he-doesn't-know there is!! THE BEST. HE LOVES HIS WIFE SO MUCH YOU GUYS, SHE'S SO GOOD AT COMMUNICATING WHAT SHE WANTS IN A BABY.

Meanwhile, BRUCE'S communication skills . . .

Bruce: I work alone and I want no dependents or significant others or partners or children in my life ever. I will deign to allow an occasional co-worker once a blue moon and that is it. Clark, Sad Bee Eyes but probably also currently parsing Bruce as Ivanhoe anyway: okay . . . I guess . . . . . . if you're super super SUPER sure . . . Bruce: I'm sure, yes. Bruce, five minutes later, holding a tiny acrobat made of rage and vengeance who is trying to gnaw his arm off so he can go murder a grown man in cold blood: I only met Dick Grayson five minutes ago but if anything ever happens to him I'm killing everyone in this reality and then myself. Clark: . . . so like HE'S-- Bruce: my ward and partner. that's all. he kept trying to go out on his own, so I'm just keeping him from getting himself killed running off after mobsters and giving him an outlet for his grief and anger that he can direct into something productive while also being mentored and protected by a more experienced vigilante. Clark, his bee-brain reorienting and thinking "wait, Godiva?? is this Godiva, maybe??": . . . okay, I GUESS that makes-- Bruce, five minutes later, holding a grumbly homeless preteen who he may or may not have technically kidnapped off the street: I only met Jason Todd five minutes ago but if anything ever happens to him I'm going to have a major shift in my crimefighting methods and paranoia levels and my ethics in regards to how I treat my partners and allies and maybe try to commit a murder you'll have to personally prevent me from committing and never ever ever EVER go to therapy about it. Clark: . . . . . . . . . Bruce: also I adopted him. he likes reading and cooking and one time he hit me in the gut with a tire iron. it bruised. :) Clark, with AGONIZED BUZZING all up in his bee-brain: OH COME ON--

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 here are two golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:

Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r Aberdeen University Library

Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v Bodleian Libraries

[vintage-ukraine]

Collective Apiary by Karpo Trokhymenko, 1967

[mankillercalledbunny]

BEEKEEPERS OF TUMBLR, LEND ME YOUR GRIPES!

I, like the character I'm writing, have only the vaguest understanding of beekeeping, and my intention is for him to run into all manner of problems. I'd like them to be both realistic and ridiculous, the kinds of things someone with 0 experience would ever expect to BE a problem he'd have to deal with, to be constructed into a humoursly troubled but eventually successful narrative. Please lay your wildest stories, best/weirdest tips, nerdiest complaints and most ridiculous or stupid issues (human-, bee-, or equipment-driven, take your pick) in my notes, and I will most happily incorporate whatever I can.

[corseque]

When I'm watching YouTube beekeeping videos and the beekeeper in the video opens their hive and I see it's a fucking Flow Hive

Yeah, what we want is for beekeeping to have 7000% more plastic, we want the unsanitary conditions of the plastic tube coming down and dripping honey in the open air outdoors. Beekeeping should just be something where you turn a nozzle (without checking if the honey frames are capped (honey isn't done unless it's capped in wax!!! if you harvest it before it's capped in wax, the moisture content will be too high and it won't last forever like the honey they found in the Egyptian tomb!! It will spoil)) and the best way to do it is to treat honey like turning on a water tap. We want people to not even check what honey stores the bees have in the rest of the box before they take honey.

we want beekeeping to be astronomically expensive and a gimmick when all you need to raise bees is a fucking wooden box with a lid and wooden frames. we want to make sure that the person keeping the bees in a flow hive is so satisfied with the convenience that they never once check their brood boxes for American Foulbrood, a disease so horrific that you are required to burn your entire hive the moment you find it. (one of the reasons why beekeepers are required to keep their bees in movable frames is to CHECK THEIR BEES FOR DISEASES that might affect other beehives, and a beehive that is advertised through its convenient hands-off honey collection and almost nothing else doesn't exactly encourage people to open their hives and look at their frames) We don't want them to do mite checks or hive beetle checks, we don't want them to be inconvenienced by these living creatures in any way.

there's like nothing good about flow hives, it's all bad. Even if the person keeping in a flow hive IS actually taking care of their bees, it doesn't matter to me because the plastic (and the plastic exposed to the elements in the outdoors) grosses me out so much. anyway one day I'll have my own apiary and then it will be over for all of you

anyway you can buy like 10 hives for the cost of the flow hive, don't get it twisted. buy 10 hives it's more fun

[vulturevalentines]

B is for bēo  (Old English for bee)

The epic hero Bēowulf's name translates literally to bee-wolf, which is likely a kenning meaning bear.

[isa-ah]

we're making silly Tolkien ocs on the patreon discord. this is my lil fat hobbit who travels with merchant dwarves from the blue mountains =]

[timmurleyart]

Honey power. 🌼🐻🍯(60”x60” mixed media)🐝

[loustica-lucia]

DATV — Master Jenny's Armory & Apiary

"Armour doesn't matter if you get under their skin!"🐝

I stumbled upon that codex a few days back when I was checking stuff on the wiki and my inner Friends of Red Jenny spirit asked me to draw it! 🙈❤️

(I'm pretty sure that codex is only obtainable via data mining?)

[ashleabechaz]

The Bee Keeper II

This is the companion painting to my first Bee Keeper piece from a few months back!

This was inspired by medieval bee keepers and their rad as heck outfits.

Illustrated using gouache and a whole lot of gold ink ✍️

[suzukiblu]

Superbat apiary please!!! I've been so exited about that au since I first saw it

“. . . it occurs to me, Clark, that I never asked how and why you heard those things when they happened,” Lois says. “Like, what specifically about them caught your ear, that is, out of literally every other sound on the planet.” 

“Because I was listening for a good kid for Bruce already,” Clark replies reasonably, because obviously he was doing that. “And I always listen to all his kids’ heartbeats. And also anyone talking about kids and him in the same sentence, just in case they ever say something about one he might want. You know.” 

“. . . . . . I did not, actually, but it does explain some things,” Lois says. “Several things, in fact. How long have you wanted to, uh . . . give Bruce a baby, exactly?” 

Clark stops in his tracks, his head whipping up as a light goes off in his head, and he realizes–“A baby. He’s never had an actual baby, maybe I could find him a–” 

“Clark!” Lois cuts in with a sharp gesture of her red pen. “Focus, honey.”

[mayor-brandy]

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[pikky126]

deep down everyone knows that putting water and dish soap in a blender and then turning it on does not actually do much of anything to clean it, and it certainly is not enough by itself. but watching it froth and spin is the one spot of joy in dish washing, so we, as a society, keep the ritual alive