06.26.06
Bee bread and bee trees
Here in the city, it’s nice to get updates on life outside the ant colony. Now supplementing my doses of life in the deep north I’m hearing regularly from old friend Paul who’s finally followed his manifest destiny and set up a smallholding in South Wales.
Today’s lesson (a link pushed my way by Paul): bees.
Shelter — In nature, the honey bee uses a number of natural cavities to build their brood nest. The term “Bee Tree” was once common. It referred to a tree that had a colony/swarm of bees living in it. The reason we can keep bees is because honey bees will adapt to man made hives for shelter.