Showing respect for the inter connections we have for #Nature! This includes #Honeybees.
Callous: insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic
In 1609, Charles Butler, in The Feminine Monarchy, wrote:
‘Of all insects, the bees are chief, and worthily to be most admired; being the only things of that kind which are bred for the behoove of men.’
Thus it has been ever since: bees are judged not by their intrinsic worth, nor by reference to their role in wider nature, but solely with reference to their utility to man. The needs of the bee are subjugated to the needs of man. Two hundred and fifty years after these words were written, just when the Victorians had outlawed the making of men into slaves for other men, allowing slaves to throw off their shackles, a clergyman named Lorenzo Langstroth invented a new shackle for the bee: the so-called moveable frame hive. Thus came about a perversion perpetrated on the bee that has been visited upon no other…
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I was thinking about getting a hive,I miss seeing them,its really rare to see a honey bee here in the states,and its a damn shame.
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I really think you should acquire a hive James, you will not regret it. We need bees! *Brigid
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There is a beehive on the side of my allotment plot & we think that that is great! 😊
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Wonderful Sophie 🙂
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