Tag: bees

maghrabiyya:

moonstonebeginning:

soulpunx20xx:

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moonstonebeginning:

A great addition to your garden or back yard. – Bee watering station. 

Bees need water just like we do but often times drown in open water. To make a bee watering station you can either do what is shown in the photo above and fill the bowl of a dog/cat watering jug with stones or you can fill a small dish with marbles and add water to that. That way the bees have something to land on!

First post to get this many notes, and I’m so glad it’s this one. ^_^

bees are so important save the bees

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stricken-by-stochasticity:

disgustedsigh:

sweet dreams are made of bees
who am i, i’m made of bees
everything is made of bees
send help

krahka

I have been mentioned in this post several times, and my answer remains the same. No, I will not aid you against the bees. You have been Chosen, and I cannot interfere with the sacrifice. If it makes you feel any better, more bees will die in the process of stinging you to death, and only one human must die. I think it’s a barbaric ritual and that with colony collapse being a problem, the hive should keep as much of their population alive so that they may survive the winter.

Unfortunately, I don’t make the rules. Killing you and the child is the only way to bring back my goddamn honey. I am sorry for your eyes, but coming here in that bear costume? Seriously?

currentsinbiology:

Bacteria from bees possible alternative to antibiotics

Raw honey has been used against infections for millennia, before honey — as we now know it — was manufactured and sold in stores. So what is the key to its’ antimicrobial properties? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a unique group of 13 lactic acid bacteria found in fresh honey, from the honey stomach of bees. The bacteria produce a myriad of active antimicrobial compounds.

These lactic acid bacteria have now been tested on severe human wound pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Pseudomonas aeruginosa and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), among others. When the lactic acid bacteria were applied to the pathogens in the laboratory, it counteracted all of them.

Tobias C Olofsson, Èile Butler, Pawel Markowicz, Christina Lindholm, Lennart Larsson, Alejandra Vásquez. Lactic acid bacterial symbionts in honeybees – an unknown key to honey’s antimicrobial and therapeutic activities. International Wound Journal, 2014; DOI: 10.1111/iwj.12345

Working bees on honey cells (stock image). Raw honey has been used against infections for millennia, before honey — as we now know it — was manufactured and sold in stores. Credit: © Dmytro Smaglov / Fotolia
Source: currentsinbiology