Bees

Bee/Albine Posts from this blog

1. Our Chubby Winged Friends
2. Albine!
3. O pledoarie pentru albine – Video cu traducere/A Plea for Bees – Video in English

AUDIO

Here is a file of the sound that bees make.  This file was produced by and is compliments of Mysid from Finland.
You can download it and listen by clicking  Bombus_buzz .  It is an ogg file and you can play it on VLC.

PDFs

(EN) Wildlines Newsletter – Bees & Butterflies Very informative newsletter that was published in 2007 in the state of New Hampshire, USA

LINKS to interesting ARTICLES on bees

Sacred Geometry and Bees – This explores the geometry of hives and remembering back to when I was living in an old house, there were carpenter bees.  I was always awed  at the perfection of their work.  The holes drilled were perfect and beautiful.  A lot of people would have evicted them, but there is no way I would have evicted them – ever!

Flight and Bees – Bees mystified scientists for many years as to how they were able to fly and hover as the proportion of their wings to their bodies weight did not quite add up just by looking at them.  Scientific study did find an answer to that question until the advent of digital imaging. Even with the mystery of flight no longer a lingering question, still they are still captivating. Read article here.

VIDEOS

Plan BEE – A message from Micahel Schacker  – Saving the Bees

Video of bees pollinating flowers – this even has a slow motion portion in the video – very well done.

Bees Collecting Pollen from David Vickers on Vimeo.

LINKS – More generalized information pages on bees

Blessed Bee