Bees are in the news a lot at the moment...every time I pick up a newspaper there's yet another article about bees! So what's going on I wonder? Swarms of bees attacked a group of novice monks at a Buddhist temple in northern Thailand this month, causing 76 of them to be hospitalized.
Bees also attacked Indian paramilitary troops in May:
New Yorkers are keen on beekeeping and the practice is growing in popularity in the Big Apple, as can be seen from this website: http://www.nycbeekeeping.com/
A cool Wikipedia link to Bee Mythology through the ages:
Here's an article about bees and war on the www.beekeeping.com website: http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/war_bees.htm
I keep hearing that American and Canadian bees are dying from Colony Collapse Disorder. I'm not seeing anywhere near as many as I used to see around Chicago in summertime:
National Geographic (link below) talks about how the Mayan beekeeping tradition is fading. The Mayan cultural practice of bee husbandry dates back thousands of years. In the ancient Maya culture, honey was used as a sweetener, antibiotic, and as an ingredient in the Maya version of mead, a fermented drink. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0628_050628_maya_bees.html
"It is a bee that represents the forest and nature's great dependency on
the irreplaceable, beneficial relationships between plants and
animals" said Roubik, who was nicknamed "The Bee Man" in a National
Geographic television special about his work on Africanized bees.
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