Bibliodyssey, a blog that scans and posts illustrations from old books, has a nice gallery of bee related images.
Illustration above is from Leben und Zucht der Honigbiene - ein gemeinverständliches Lehrbuch über Behandlung der Bienen und über Tätigkeit, Nutzen und Anatomie der Biene 1922 by Oskar Krancher. Old bee book illustrations
Here's a scene from American Casino, a new documentary about the subprime lending scandal and the resulting $12 trillion Wall Street bailout. Another consequence of the meltdown -- the swimming pools of foreclosed homes have become mosquito breeding grounds. How Foreclosures Breed Mosquitoes ... More.
Photographer Julia Baum spent four years photographing suburban tract comes in Sta Clara, CA. The houses were all built in the 1950s to look identical, but over the years, their owners have modified them in a very pleasing, very vernacular way to personalize them. As I take a second look at thes... More.
Yeah, I'm just going to put this whole NSFW thing behind the jump. Read on for an in-depth look at bat blow-jobs, and insights into the evolution of such work, in general.... More.
These gentlemen attempted to rob a Carroll, Iowa home while disguised with, er, Sharpie marker. Police responded to a call and spotted the getaway car driven by Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20. The guy on the right has the Clockwork Orange eye happening and, as Rob says, the man... More.
Avi sez, "'Mickey Mouse in Gurs' is a tragic 'comic' book made by Horst Rosenthal in 1942 while incarcerated at the Gurs internment camp in France. Rosenthal uses Mickey Mouse as a kind of subversive Virgil to guide us through the hellish experiences of the concentration camp. Horst Rosenthal was m... More.
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those sure do look like the bees I'll be harvesting honey from tonight. harvesting from 3 hives and expecting close to 100 lbs of honey.
Honeybees are so sweet!
So is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBTVSQUF-x0
Something sweet , to get rid of a sour affair...
Paging Zoltan Abbasid...
White courtesy telephone please.
We had to dislodge a paper wasp colony from under a tree branch. It fell into the water and soon the parental figures disbanded. Later, we fished the comb-like nest out again and found a variety of larva in various stages of development. Wouldn't you know it, some of the little larva were still wriggling! Later on a raccoon or owl must have got to it, because it was reduced to papery scraps in one or two days. I wonder if a few managed to mature, though, because every now and then a menacing wasp buzzes by, abdomen twitching, hissing, "you. killed. my. family."
I once heard somewhere that the best honey in the world comes from hives founds in the green hills of eastern Saudi Arabia (something to do with the wild flowers thereabouts); and that there is never enough supply for export - or for even domestic demand: that what there is of it all gets bought up by the wealthier Saudis.
Some apposite artwork:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/piero_di_cosimo/cosimo_honey.jpg.html
Do they have Eric the Half a Bee?
Oh Youtube,is there nothing you don't have?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-vxAFcQIU
Cyril Connolly?
http://www.nndb.com/people/132/000115784/
No! Semi-carnally....
As bees and wasps are drastically decreasing in numbers around the world, this is a timely topic.
ahh thanks for that Ugly! I see Jonathon has many new youtubes now.
Wolfiesma; paper wasps are your friends.