#apiculture

[foxthebeekeeper]

And like clockwork, another Easter comes, and another swarm lands!

It’s a small one, but it’s my first one since the poisoning so I’ll take it.

#bees #beekeeper #beekeeping #fox #talks #honeybee #honeybees #honeycomb #honey #bee #hive #hives #swarm #swarms #natural #nature #bug #bugs #insect #insects #apiculture #nuc

[puppyguppy]

You cough and wave dust away from your face, eyes watering as you fish for the folded up letter you’d previously shoved into your back pocket. The man that’d picked you up from the bus stop was kind, but you couldn’t tell which was older; him, or the spluttering truck he drove. It made for difficult, hardly held conversation. Not because you’re shy or weren’t curious, but because the truck had been loud, and the man a bit hard of hearing. He’d had a warm smile as he waved goodbye to you though, tinged with a little red. However, before you could ask, or even so much as thank the guy, his truck was off down the road, kicking up dirt.

His barely held together tailgate read, in bold but faded white letters, “Plus Ultra!” When you can see and breathe clearly again, you unfold the paper in your hands and double check the address you’d been given. You’d been to the property before, of course, but a long, long time ago. Honestly, it felt like a lifetime ago – your childhood. Even then, you can’t really remember the place beyond a couple of random, core memories. Like falling asleep on both the way there and the way back, safe and comfortable, lulled unconscious by the quiet conversation of your parents and the rhythmic rocking of the car. You could’ve made more memories there – here. You’d been invited well into your teen years, for holidays and summer breaks and special occasions. And it’s not that you didn’t love your aunt, the one who used to live here; her and her ‘best friend’ though everyone in the family knew better. You still love her, love them. Hard not to with just how crazy they could be – like the two of them buying a farm out in the middle of nowhere, and thinking they could keep up with it. They’d done surprisingly well, up until randomly deciding to travel the world before permanently settling down. You’re pretty sure they eloped. You’re like, ninety-nine percent positive that they’re currently on their honeymoon. Just best friend things. You probably could’ve been closer to them, if you’d just given them the chance. But, you were young. You had classes and friends and hobbies at the time that you’d just considered too cool to pass up. Now all gone, for one reason or another, which is why you’re even here. Why you’d reached out to your aunt in the first place. It was the perfect opportunity. They’d more or less left the property abandoned, and you were in desperate need of an escape. A reset. That all depends on that more or less, though. Apparently, your aunt had hired a farmhand at some point. And, said farmhand still lived there. Here. Not in the house or anything, but in his own little trailer, supposedly. Parked somewhere rather permanently on the property. In the letter, your aunt had described him as ‘a bit standoffish’ but with ‘a heart of gold’. Then followed that up by saying that if you didn’t like him, well. ‘Tough shit. Leave.’ Whether you liked him or not didn’t really matter. You didn’t come here to make friends. You didn’t come here to get to know anyone else other than yourself. So, you figure, as long as he stays out of your way, you’ll do your best to stay out of his. Which… Ends up being almost eerily easy.

#aizawa x reader #aizawa x y/n #gender neutral reader #aizawa shouta #aizawa #not based on a tiktok but something so much worse #Blame it on The Bestie #Bugs #Bees #Insects #Beekeeping #Apiculture #Apiarist Aizawa #Farm AU #TW: Murder #TW: Suicide

[lindahall]

François Huber – Scientist of the Day

François Huber, a Swiss naturalist, died Dec. 22, 1831, at the age of 81. 

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#François Huber #François Burnens #bees #apiculture #histsci #histSTM #18th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

[little-humblebee]

Bee season is here!

#bees #beekeeping #beekeeper #commercial beekeeping #commercial apiary #apiarist #apiculture #honeybees #texas

[tentacion3099]

🐝

#gunblr #gear #apiculture

[70sdreamer]

🍃🐝

#35mm #photoart #photoblog #photography #hiking #photografy #35mm flim #camping #méxico #cactus #apiculture #apicultor #cottagecore #forest cottage #country cottage #country house

[susiecards]

4 of spades

#4 of spades #spades #bee #bees #apiculture #knitting #knitting needles #playing card #playing cards #four of spades

[mannlibrary]

Lorenzo Langstroth unvarnished

Lorenzo Langstroth, 1890. From Langstroth on the hive & honey bee, rev. by Dadant. 1892.

December 25th, Christmas Day, is a day for sharing and giving. It also happens to be the birthday of a man known as the father of American beekeeping: Lorenzo Langstroth, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1810. With both happy occasions in mind, Mann Library is pleased to announce a resource that we’re pretty sure students of beekeeping and its history will find a wonderful gift: a fully digitized, searchable copy of Langstroth’s handwritten personal journal. Where a researcher would have once had to make an in-person trip to our special collections reading room to attempt a deciphering of Langstroth’s (infamously difficult to read) handwriting, the journal is now freely available (and actually readable!) as both a digitized version of the original work and in a transcribed form as part of the online Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Page from "Journal on matters relating to bees, etc.," unpublished manuscript, Lorenzo Langstroth 1852-1895. in the special collections of Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.

For those not yet fully in the know, Lorenzo Langstroth looms large in American beekeeping history thanks to discoveries and inventions he made as a self-taught apiarist, innovations which essentially revolutionized the 19th century practice of beekeeping in North America and facilitated its development into the profitable industry of today. His guide on beekeeping, The Hive and the Honeybee, was first published in 1853 and remains in print even today.  Langstroth’s story is also poignantly notable for a reason that you don’t have to a be a beekeeper to appreciate deeply: his struggles with debilitating depression, which stymied many of his professional endeavors. While working intermittently as a pastor and teacher when his mental health allowed, Langstroth found constant, life-affirming inspiration in the bee world he observed closely through the prism of the hives he kept for most of his adult life.

The history of beekeeping stretches back to prehistoric times, but when Langstroth patented his movable frame beehive in 1852 it created a worldwide revolution in the practice of keeping bees. On this page of his journal, we see the exact moment—the “aha” moment—that Langstroth landed on his brilliant insight: the significance of applying the concept of "beespace" to design hives that allow easier harvesting of honey than possible in earlier hive structures. The rest, as they say, is history.

The journal Langstroth kept is a treasure for several reasons. It provides fascinating insight into pivotal moments of beekeeping’s technological history. It is, as well, an intimate view of resilience in face of sometimes devastating mental health challenges. And last but really not least, in the comments and pet peeves that Langstroth also recorded in his ongoing notes-to-self, his off-the-record writing offers a more mundane but no less instructive tour through the day-to-day concerns—from keeping bee hives productive to the vexing challenges of protecting trade secrets and securing patents for promising new discoveries in a timely way—that would have been top-of-mind for any aspiring agricultural entrepreneur of the 19th century.

Page from "Journal on matters relating to bees, etc.," unpublished manuscript, Lorenzo Langstroth 1852-1895. in the special collections of Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.

The online availability of Langstroth’s journal in both its handwritten and transcribed form has been a work very long in the making. When early 20th century entomologist Everett Franklin Phillipps joined the Cornell faculty 1924, he made it his mission to establish one of the world’s most important collections of beekeeping materials—now known as the E. F. Phillips Collection at Mann Library. Recognizing the importance of one of this collections’ gems—the Langstroth journal—for the beekeeping field, Phillips began the painstaking process of transcribing 600 pages of its cramped, highly slanted script—rendered even more illegible by the frequent ink bleed-through from other pages—into easily readable typescript. The project remained unfinished at the time of Phillips passing in 1951, and others took up the work intermittently over the following decades. But it wasn’t until the epic pandemic-era national lockdown of 2020 that intrepid collections specialist Betsy Elswit finally found herself with the time needed to finish transcribing of the journal's final 200 pages.  Thanks to this heroic work, a browse through the work on the Biodiversity Diversity Heritage Library today provides a look at Langstroth’s original writing with a side-by-side view of transcribed, machine-readable text.  Thank you Betsy! And thank you, Reverend Langstroth, for persevering through the inspirational highs and deep lows of life to impact the practice of beekeeping so profoundly, and to leave us such a rich record of such remarkable scientific observation and personal achievement.

And with that, we leave you with our best wishes for a good, hope-filled winter holiday season!

#Langstroth #beekeeping #beekeeper #apiculture #mann library #cornell university #rare books #vintage book #archives #mental health #agricultural history #special collections #bees #honey #apiary #honey bees

[frogshunnedshadows]

Shoutout to all my medieval beekeeper mutuals.

#don't worry #bee happy #medieval #beekeeper #animation #animated gif #yes i made this #graphic design is my passion #it has been seven million years since i made an animated gif #apiculture #beekeeping #bees #humor #mad props to my homie Pieter Bruegel the Elder #yes i know this is actually not medieval it is early modern do not at me

[geohoneylovers]

Know the quality of the vibrant life in your city through the unique perspectives of our buzzing friends, the bees. Gain insightful glimpses into urban living and experience a fresh take on what makes your city thrive. Read the complete research on our website www.geohoney.com

#city health #bees #scientific #research #environment #pollution #beehive #pollination #honeycomb #savethebees #apiculture #healthy lifestyle #Geohoney

[foxthebeekeeper]

Bees update!

Back down to just the super hive after the late swarm absconded. The super hive is doing very well and has filled out the rest of their frames. No sign of disease or further poisoning in the absconded hive, so I guess they just wanted to chill somewhere else. (They were already pretty unusual when I caught them, hanging outside the hive and all.)

I guess one hive is better than none. Going to be fun scraping the moth-covered wax out of the old hives and starting over in the spring. I might leave a few frames of nasty comb just to use as alignment for any swarms I catch next year, though if it gets too nasty I’ll have no choice but to burn it with the rest.

This year definitely hasn’t been great as far as bees go, but I’m not giving up yet! When it gets further in to winter I’m going to do a full clean-out of the old hives and give them a good scrubbing to make sure there’s no more of that nasty mosquito poison in them. I left them out long enough that I doubt there is, but you can never be too sure. Going to hit them with some bleach too just in case.

If any other beeks out there have experienced similar losses and have a good way to clean up, let me know!

#bees #beekeeper #beekeeping #fox #talks #honeybees #honeycomb #honey #bee #hive #hives #natural #nature #apiculture #honeybee #video #videos

[goshashka-design]

Close up view of the working bees on honeycells.

Close up view of the working bees on honeycells.

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#agriculture #apiarist #apiary #apiculture #bee #beehive #beekeeper #bees #colony #farm #Goshashka #honey #honeybee #honeycomb #Photo

[vinilsoup]

Queen bee that got stuck in my house bc of the lights. Probably on it's nuptial flights so it's a new Queen. Also it's golden!!! So pretty.

It really got mad when it flew at my cat's belly and she bited him and started doing that queen chirp of begging for it's life like bitch I'm trying to help 😭 stop squiggling. She lived, I just put her outside, I hope she does ok and doesn't send her hive after me in revenge despite just trying to help. Guess queens are dumber than worker bees I gotta say. Poor thing, she went out to fuck and got stuck in the giant animals dimension.

#queen bee #bee #honey bee #insects #apiculture

[0rph3u5]

no mow may

#original photography #original photographers on tumblr #no mow may #apiculture

[rucherdupillier]

Les floraisons se succèdent en ce moment et aujourd'hui c'est au tour des pêchers de nous offrir leur beauté et leur délicieux parfum ! 🌸🍑 Mais ce n'est pas que pour le plaisir de nos yeux et de notre nez, c'est aussi une aubaine pour nos amies les abeilles qui vont butiner ces fleurs sucrées 🐝💕. Les pêchers sont en effet une source importante de nectar et de pollen pour ces précieuses pollinisatrices 🌸🐝🌸. Alors, prenons quelques instants pour admirer la nature et les petits miracles qui s'y déroulent tous les jours 🌿💚 ► www.mon-abeille.fr #abeilles #rucher #apiculture #nature #environnement #conservation #miellocal #biodiversité #pollinisation #sécuritéalimentaire #merveillesdelanature #pollinisateurs #jardinage #fleurs #écologie #RespectDeLaNature #ProtectionDesAbeilles #SauvonsLesAbeilles #AgricultureDurable #AbeilleDomestique #SustainableFarming #Cleanliness #BeesofInstagram #BeeLovers #BeeAware #BeeFriendly #floraison #naturelover #peachblossom #abeillesheureuses (à Rucher du Pillier) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp95XJnI9PH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#abeilles #rucher #apiculture #nature #environnement #conservation #miellocal #biodiversité #pollinisation #sécuritéalimentaire #merveillesdelanature #pollinisateurs #jardinage #fleurs #écologie #respectdelanature #protectiondesabeilles #sauvonslesabeilles #agriculturedurable #abeilledomestique #sustainablefarming #cleanliness #beesofinstagram #beelovers #beeaware #beefriendly #floraison #naturelover #peachblossom #abeillesheureuses

[licornelilith]

#ameriquedunord #amerique #canada #est du canada #Beauté #nature #art #réalisation #mosaiculture #fleur #coccinelle #abeille #apiculture #apiculteur #arbres #couleurs