There is an old Northern European custom in which newlyweds would consume mead (honey beer/wine) for a month. That is where the term "Honeymoon" came from. I guess when you ran out of mead "The honeymoon was over"!
Drones "Everywhere I go, I'm just a gigalo" Their only purpose in life is to make sweet sticky bee love to the queen. The down side of beeing a drone is that you are the first to bee booted out of the hive if ther's a food shortage. Oops, found a huge down side, it kills you to mate with the queen!
Honey never spoils.
They use to use honey to treat wounds.
A newly hatched queen immediatley kills all other queens in the hive, hatched or not.
There are undertaker bees whos job it is to drag dead bees from the hive.
gosh, you'd think those drones would wise up by now. those queens are tricky and mean. reminds me of someone i live with.
ReplyDeletesounds like one of my family reunions...dragging off dead bodies, (dead drunk)
ReplyDeleteSweet post!
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