DESIGN TREND: BUMBLEBEES
Yellow + Stripes + Hexagons = Bumblebees!
Haagen-Dazs ‘Help The Honey Bees’ cause-related marketing (via MarketingMagazine)
I see you compound eyein me with your 1000+lens, mmmhmmm.
keep planting those nutritious flowers! good work!
I was watering my flowers after I came home from school, and to my surprise, I found a couple bees harvesting pollen from my blue salvia. I was really pleased. I don’t know, it kind of makes me feel nice inside to know that I’m contributing to the ecosystem.
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We’re placing so many demands on bees we’re forgetting that they’re a living organism and that they have a seasonal life cycle and they’re going to have down times. We’re wanting them to function as a machine. We want them to be strong and healthy all the time, and we’re transporting them like they were a machine… and expecting them to get off the truck and be fine.
Marla Spivak, entomologist at the University of Minnesota
![When a colony’s queen is nearing her end, unable to produce and lay eggs with the efficiency of her youth, virgin princesses are expected to take her place. A new queen will reign either by a process known as supersedure or the more commonly known phenomenon of swarming.
As the hive decides to supersede their mother queen, they begin creating particular the queen cells, wait for a fertilized egg to drop from the unsuspecting mama, and tend to that cell with a special combination of sustenance called royal jelly. The diet and general rearing process that the egg undergoes by her sisters determines her queen status, physiology, and anatomy. Once the princess is ready, her sisters force their mother to abdicate her throne- they smother her in a collective kill. Yes, it’s regicide, matricide, but for the sake of the whole.
More on swarming later…
[photo via beeinthemoment]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3d77dQjOU1qc8vteo1_250.jpg)
When a colony’s queen is nearing her end, unable to produce and lay eggs with the efficiency of her youth, virgin princesses are expected to take her place. A new queen will reign either by a process known as supersedure or the more commonly known phenomenon of swarming.
As the hive decides to supersede their mother queen, they begin creating particular the queen cells, wait for a fertilized egg to drop from the unsuspecting mama, and tend to that cell with a special combination of sustenance called royal jelly. The diet and general rearing process that the egg undergoes by her sisters determines her queen status, physiology, and anatomy. Once the princess is ready, her sisters force their mother to abdicate her throne- they smother her in a collective kill. Yes, it’s regicide, matricide, but for the sake of the whole.
More on swarming later…
[photo via beeinthemoment]
![“With only about 1 milligram of brain matter, less than four ten-thousandths of one ounce, bees can perform feats of communication and navigation and solve orientation and organizational problems.”
William Longgood in his 1985 book The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men
[photo via nedhugar and Dance Language of the Bees from Biology Today]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5rl186rqA1qzv4geo1_250.jpg)
“With only about 1 milligram of brain matter, less than four ten-thousandths of one ounce, bees can perform feats of communication and navigation and solve orientation and organizational problems.”
- William Longgood in his 1985 book The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men
[photo via nedhugar and Dance Language of the Bees from Biology Today]
more posts coming today
I apologize dear followers for the lack of posts recently. I just graduated from college and have been busy as a worker bee.
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Ein kleiner Test mit der Canon 7D und den Kenko Extension Tubes
