Honey bees really like the bok choy flowers. They actually smell like a nice honey too.

#bees #HoneyBees #pollinators #BokChoy #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #June11 #flowers

#Fotovorschlag Wer wohnt denn hier?
#insectsofthefediverse
#insectsofmastodon #pollinators #honeybees

In einem tiefen Spalt einer alten Straßenlinde in der Nachbarschaft hatte sich ein Honigbienenvolk eingenistet. Aus zunächst ganz wenigen Bienen wurden schnell sehr viele. Sie blieben allerdings nur einen Sommer lang.

Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow – Signed and dedicated editions direct from the author

Old Oak Meadow in danger, strange, what’s going on? The bees need to save it. Ideal for birthdays, Christmas and other occasions

For £12.99 including UK postage and packing I will sign and dedicate a book, reading age 8-12, for you. It includes a free 7″ x 5″ blank card (while stocks last) of the cover illustration of one of my other books and there are four to choose from. You can let me know what you want to write or I can write something on your behalf for whoever you are buying it for. Please contact me for further details including postage costs to other parts of the world. [email protected], 07938 293538. I am also advertising Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, the second book of the series, for the same price and a two book bundle for £19.99. This book is also available through our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

The story

In Endangered Meadow the bees of Old Oak Meadow have to unite the meadow’s inhabitants to stop some developers building houses all over it. The adventure starts one day when one clever bee, Beatrice, Bea to her friends, the hardest working bee in the hive, discovers a new sign at the entrance to the meadow. She comes up with an ingenious idea of how to save the home of all the creatures that live there. Will they be successful?

This is one of Alice Wright’s wonderful illustrations that can be seen throughout the book.

The meadow

The books can be purchased directly from Amazon without my signing and dedication of course. This is the .co.uk link to this book, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/, and this is the .com link, https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Endangered-Meadow-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B08BW5Y3CS/.

There are organic cotton T-shirts available of the cover artwork with or without the story title from our Teemill site for children, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Endangered Meadow artwork with book title T-shirt

Our links

See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

#Bees #BusyBee #BusyBeeAndTheEndangeredMeadow #HoneyBees #Meadow #PaulNoël

Pagan Community Notes for Week of June 3, 2026:

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: honeybees may be engineering their queens, a call for submissions on AI and Paganism, allegations of “cult-like” activity in an online occult community, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and—of course—therapy donkeys. (Seriously, why have we been missing out?)

https://wildhunt.org/2026/06/pagan-community-notes-week-of-june-3-2026.html

#pagan #witchcraft #honeybees #artificialintelligence #paganism #cult #tarot #therapydonkey

Pagan Community Notes: Week of June 3, 2026

In this week's Pagan Community Notes: honeybees may be engineering their queens, a call for submissions on AI and Paganism, allegations of "cult-like" activity in an online occult community, Star's Tarot of the Week, and—of course—therapy donkeys. (Seriously, why have we been missing out?)

The Wild Hunt

3-Jun-2026
How #honeybees really crown their #queens
Royal cribs and ladies-in-waiting: new details about the creation of bee royalty

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130618

#science #bees #insects #behaviour

@sflorg

Queen honeybees aren't born, they are made. And it's not just the food, but also active chemical shaping of its cradle. How cool is that.

The cited paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10534-3

#honeybees #entomology

Queen cell architecture shapes honey bee queen development - Nature

Worker bee construction behaviour actively engineers a physicochemical niche that is crucial for queen development in honey bees.

Nature

Hopefully my bees but they could be previously swarmed my bees from elsewhere, or possibly someone else has bees or some of my bees that have swarmed. Have I mentioned that my bees have swarmed a lot?

#bees #honeybees #bee #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #blackberryblossoms #HimalayanBlackberries #PinkFlowers #June2 #pollinators

Blackberry blossoms and bee butts.

#FlowerWithBee #bee #bees #HoneyBees #blackberries #May31

Die neuen Bienen sind fleißig. // The new bees are hardworking. #Foto #Fotografie #Bienen #Honig #Honigbienen #Imker #Imkerei #photo #photography #bees #honey #honeybees #beekeeper #beekeeping
Wir haben heute ein neues Bienenvolk mit Kärntner Bienen (Apis mellifera carnica) erhalten. 🐝 We received a new bee colony with Carniolan honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica) today. #Foto #Fotografie #Bienen #Honig #Honigbienen #Imker #Imkerei #photo #photography #bees #honey #honeybees #beekeeper #beekeeping