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vegans making honey a bee labour issue is the funniest thing imaginable because like, you picked the one animal that has already unionised
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Happy World Bee Day!!
I thought this book would be good to share today and during Mental Health Awareness Month 😊
Title: The Music of Bees
Author: Eileen Garvin
Synopsis: A heartwarming debut novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it.
Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days.
In the grip of a panic attack, she nearly collides with Jake--a troubled, paraplegic teenager with the tallest mohawk in Hood River County--while carrying 120,000 honeybees in the back of her pickup truck. Charmed by Jake's sincere interest in her bees and seeking to rescue him from his toxic home life, Alice surprises herself by inviting Jake to her farm.
And then there's Harry, a twenty-four-year-old with debilitating social anxiety who is desperate for work. When he applies to Alice's ad for part-time farm help, he's shocked to find himself hired. As an unexpected friendship blossoms among Alice, Jake, and Harry, a nefarious pesticide company moves to town, threatening the local honeybee population and illuminating deep-seated corruption in the community. The unlikely trio must unite for the sake of the bees--and in the process, they just might forge a new future for themselves.
Beautifully moving, warm, and uplifting, The Music of Bees is about the power of friendship, compassion in the face of loss, and finding the courage to start over (at any age) when things don't turn out the way you expect.
Sunny honey!
bees have a gland that makes royal jelly, which they vomit to feed the queen, if they need a new one they will continuously feed a larva royal jelly instead of giving a single dose at birth like normal, they build extra large cells to house the developing queens and the first one to come out stings the others before they have a chance, if two come out at the same time they fight to the death
“don’t eat honey because it exploits the bees and they can’t consent!!!” bees are literally unionized and will walk out if they don’t like being in the beekeeper’s hives
I think we need some dog sized bees. Or better yet, horse sized bees! Specifically the fluffy bees, btw. They are so soft and cute and I just want to pet them and hold them and fly on their backs and be best friends with them. I think a new would make a very good best friend :))
JUST LOOK AT HOW SOFT AND CUTE THEY ARE! I JUST WANNA BE HIS BESTEST FREN! 🐝
The mystery of icon-preserving bees
For a decade, a beekeeper near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them.
Throwback to August when I caught this tiny little guy drinking with his silly tube
Sweet Dreams are made of Bees
Who I am I to hate these Bees?
Travel the world just me and these Bees
Everybody's asking for honey
Some of them want the Bee Goo
Some of them want the Bees to go
None of them know these Bees don't
None of them know these Bees don't have goo
Sweet Bees are colony
These Bees are solitary
They're very important to our ecology
Every Bee is looking for nectar
None of of them want to sting you
None of them want to get swat by you
Some of them want to bonk you
Some of them think you're a flower too