And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, September 14, 2026
Never heard of this. Most bees would rather sting me.
The drones aren't killed, the workers just block them from coming back into the hive. This is usually in the fall when the hive is preparing for winter and need to keep all the nectar they have to keep the hive going when there's no flowers blooming. You would see a small pile of them on the ground outside the front of the hive. The sentries as you call them are referred to as "guard" bees. These are older workers who have flown a lot of miles as gathering nectar is a young bees job. They really don't or can't refuse the job, it's just part of their instinct.
We could well do with some of these "simpler times" and the bringing back of old folk traditions in this technological age we are a part of, willing or unwilling. I started some time ago collecting history books on the county I live in and attend fall festivals where much of the old traditions are on display. Apple butter boils, Amish women making and auctioning off quilts, homemade soups, reenactorsof civil war and early mountain man and pioneering, and antique tractors and machinery demonstrations. Great way to spend a day and you never know.....you just might learn something!
I've known people who talk to themselves, and have seen others talking to the wall of their house and others just nattering away. So why not talk to bees.
I've heard of bullshit, but never beeshit-
ReplyDeleteMy dad kept bees. Very interesting hobby with some very interesting dynamics in the hive.
ReplyDeleteWorkers are female. The males are "made" when a queen needs to be fertilized. Then they are killed.
There are sentries at the hive who basically have a suicide mission. If they refuse, they are killed.
At night the bees align themselves to cause better circulation of air through the hive at night. Flapping their wings all night long.
The drones aren't killed, the workers just block them from coming back into the hive. This is usually in the fall when the hive is preparing for winter and need to keep all the nectar they have to keep the hive going when there's no flowers blooming. You would see a small pile of them on the ground outside the front of the hive. The sentries as you call them are referred to as "guard" bees. These are older workers who have flown a lot of miles as gathering nectar is a young bees job. They really don't or can't refuse the job, it's just part of their instinct.
DeleteI keep bees, and they are fascinating. And sometimes, ornery. Never heard this folk tale before though.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of this being done upon the passing of a British regent.
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
We could well do with some of these "simpler times" and the bringing back of old folk traditions in this technological age we are a part of, willing or unwilling. I started some time ago collecting history books on the county I live in and attend fall festivals where much of the old traditions are on display. Apple butter boils, Amish women making and auctioning off quilts, homemade soups, reenactorsof civil war and early mountain man and pioneering, and antique tractors and machinery demonstrations. Great way to spend a day and you never know.....you just might learn something!
ReplyDeleteI've known people who talk to themselves, and have seen others talking to the wall of their house and others just nattering away. So why not talk to bees.
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