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Apiary


These bee apartments are scattered around the fields in the area and we have local vendors who sell the honey. I wrote about one in the post from 16th May.

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13 comments:

Cheltenhamdailyphoto said...

Pretty apiary.

Thanks for my gorgeous postcard! Pride of place on my mantelpiece.

Martel said...

Hello, I present my blog photographs to you on a small city : Martel. in the Quercy (the black perigord in France), the area of the foie gras and the omelette to boletus.

mon blog of photographs on the town of Martel.

Anonymous said...

I like your photograph and the colors are in pleasant contrast. It is a nice photograph. I also liked your narrative.

We have lost our bees. There was a special about it on television last night but I missed it. Some think their disappaearance is related to cell phone use. Cell phone electronics causes them to lose their navigational abilities and they are not able to find their hives. Without honey bees, we would be dead in 4 years, or so the story goes.

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Anonymous said...

beautiful and idyllic, seems like a great place for vacation!

lv2scpbk said...

Nice photo. It's nice to know more about bees.

alice said...

Do bees come in these little coloured boxes? Here, our hives are very different: small houses put on the ground. Your nice shot makes me want to know more about Swiss bees!

claude said...

really beautiful bee apartments ! Nice picture !

claude said...

It's me again ! Did you understand the name of my blog ? If not it is "from oven to garden and my ten fingers".

Deb said...

such a lovely scene! It's postcard-perfect....

isa said...

I don't get it - where are the bees? In the big house or in those colorful boxes around the house?
According to another report, the bees disappeared after they were sprayed with a new antibiotic (to fight off some new virus).

Ming the Merciless said...

Wow! I thought it was a real house for humans. Imagine the mistake if one walks in and find millions of bees inside.

Z said...

Thank you to everyone for your comments on the bee dwelling. I'm curious about them myself, so I'm going to do a little "investigating" and if I have anything interesting, I'll report back to you all.

Claude: I tried to visit your blog again, but at the time I tried, something must have been wrong with Blogger because it kept giving me an error message.

Isabella: I think the bees enter into their hives via the brightly colored openings, and humans access these hives by entering the structure through a normal door. That's my theory right now, but I could be completely mistaken.

Kate said...

Wonderful photo of a very important activity. We need to take good care of those wonder bees--delicious products that they pollinate.