#bee apiaries

[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.

[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

[faeriekit]

🐝🍯 It's Bees! 🐝

Hey, back on my bullshit here; it's Apiary Gender time again! Why? Got bored. Posted. Nothing more to it tbh

Anyway, I published a teensy proof of concept Apiary fic here. Behold: an Apiary infection inception! 🐝

Yes yes it's also very silly BUT to seal the deal, take this uquiz with all my pride and joy: a good-old-fashioned "which bee gender are you" quiz! 🐝🏳️‍⚧️

And, no, you don't have to know anything about the dynamics at play to take it. It's as silly and as shallow as it gets. I thought adding homework would detract from the fun and all that.

(Thank you everyone online at midnight in the haunting heroes server for letting me beta test this on you! 🧡)

💛🍯 Forgot what Apiary Genders are? Click here! It's bees! It's bees. What wolves are to the omegaverse, bees are to Apiary— and yet, despite our best efforts, it's not even nsfw. Sad. Alexa play party rock by lmfao, please. Obviously no two gender expressions are the same between any two individuals, so why not make it worse? 🐝 with bees? 🏳️‍⚧️

🐝Now available on Ao3! 🐝🍯 If you end up posting anything to ao3, it can now be listed as an inspiration!

There may be more stuff coming in the future, but I don't know it! This is all the stuff I had backlogged in this concept. If we're lucky, more things may be coming soon...from other authors, even...

Happy buzzing! 🥰🍯🐝

[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 ✍️

[moishe-pipick]

[thebeautifulbook]

THE LIFE OF THE BEE by Maurice Maeterlinck. (New York: Dodd Mead, 1901) Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold. Translated by Alfred Sutro.

source

[bootleg-nessie]

Colony collapse disorder is a hoax. The bees are all dying because that fucker Burt keeps grinding them up to put in chapstick

[beasbees]

Check out this queen laying in an observation hive 🐝

[realllyrandommann]

The Beehouse

I really really like this one, probably my best build so far.

Fun fact: it's been made to make bees pollinate the potatoes (they're not fans).

More outside shots.

[this-has-returned]

People with autism whose special interest is/includes bees: This is your formal invitation to reblog and infodump about bees.

PLEASE. I AM BEGGING YOU.

I'm writing a short story, and the main character has autism (because write what you know), and her special interest is bees (because I like a challenge).

The problem is: While I think bees are cool and I know a bit about them, they aren't my special interest. So I need to research and catalog enough facts, insights, and enthusiasm to sufficiently write a character who loves bees as much as I love airplanes.

Also considering a side plot where she is struggling to start her first hobby apiary. Might try to find bee YouTubers as part of my research as well.

I would have given her a different special interest, but I have a very specific reason for it to be bees. Trust me, lol. I just wanna do the bee-lovers justice.

[stclements]

[1five1two]

'On an Apiary'. Aleksandr Makovsky.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 + #BearAwarenessWeek🐻 :

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (Flemish, c.1520-c.1590) Fable of the Bear and the Bees Bruges, 1567 print, etched & hand-colored, H 95 mm × W 112 mm Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-70

[ashleabechaz]

WIP of the companion piece to my other Beekeeper painting.

I’m struggling a bit on this one in terms of colour but I’ll get there 👍

[othmeralia]

Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.

This bright sunface watches over the ritual of bugonia in which an ox is killed and bees generate from its body. The different myths surrounding the idea that bees will spontaneously generate from an animal body get a little confused. There is also a story in the bible that refers to Sampson killing a lion and bees arise from the carcass. This illustration conflates the myths by showing both lion and ox. The author of this book, Pierre Pomet, includes this illustration but states that "this extraction appears to be very wide of truth," in other words he doesn't believe it either.

Histoire generale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux, et des mineraux, 1694

[pan-cakes-makes]

CIDERY & MEADERY

Plenty of people create bee / flower farms & apple orchards in Animal Crossing, so I’m putting my own unique spin on these by making them into a combo meadery & cidery in this ACNH speed build.

Our resident bad girl, Cherry, will be running the cozy apple orchard while our unibrow sweetheart, Hazel, will tend the flourishing apiary.

- CUSTOM CODES USED - Apple Cider Shelves: MA-5586-1147-3236 Honey Shelves: MA-0973-7817-2980 Honey Stall: MA-0498-3188-7717 Honey Drips: MA-9440-2658-2481 Dirt Path: MA-4147-2454-4020 Eyebrows: MA-1409-5733-1266

- WATCH IT - Check out the speed build on my YouTube channel here