Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. Dreams don’t do apathy. So dream… #bee #goodnight #dream

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 17. #Dandelions are vital to bees. Vast flowering season - February to November around here. Nectar/pollen for hungry #bees/#hoverflies/#butterflies among others. Cherish them. ‘A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees’ - Blake #nature

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 16. Bees visit #flowers for nectar and pollen. Nectar provides energy and nutrients. Pollen is a source of protein that is mostly fed to their young. ‘Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.’ - Henry Adams #bees #nature #bumblebees

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #summer #health #life #meadows

Centaury stands quietly in summer rain by a pathway through Front Meadow here on World Bee Sanctuary today. Sounds of a local gathering drift across the valley as buzzards call from high. #wildflowerhour #sunday #nature #worldbeesanctuary #summer

Bee ‘…and goodnight to the street sweepers the night watchman flame keepers and goodnight Matilda, too…’ Dreams don’t do impossible… #bee #goodnight #dream

War! What is it good for? Oil companies! Exxonmobil and Chevron the two biggest US Oil Companies reported gangbuster profits on Friday driven by the spike in global oil prices unleashed by the US - Iran war. Exxon raked in $14.5 billion in profit during the second quarter more than doubling… 1/2

The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · 4d ago

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 15. Bumblebee queens determine the sex of young produced. Initially producing female workers, later in the nest’s life they choose to produce males and future queens. ‘Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them’ - Mark Twain #bees #bumblebees

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 15. Bumblebee queens determine the sex of young produced. Initially producing female workers, later in the nest’s life they choose to produce males and future queens. ‘Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them’ - Mark Twain #bees #bumblebees

Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. Dream bees not billionaires, wildflowers not wildfires, nature not nazis, generosity not genocides… #bee #goodnight #dream

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be kind. Be gentle. Be true. Be like #bees Hang on a second…it’s Friday? I was last here Monday. What happened to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday? Oh…Infantino sold them to private investors. But the days of the week… 1/2

The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · 5d ago

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 14. It is often thought that hummingbirds have the highest metabolic rate (energy used per unit of time) of all animals however the metabolic rate of #bumblebees is 75% higher. ‘I love not man less, but Nature more’ - Byron #bees #nature #Friday

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 14. It is often thought that hummingbirds have the highest metabolic rate (energy used per unit of time) of all animals however the metabolic rate of #bumblebees is 75% higher. ‘I love not man less, but Nature more’ - Byron #bees #nature #Friday

Bee ‘Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day…’ ‘Night folks. Catch a falling dream and put in your pocket, never let it fade away… #bee #goodnight #dream

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 13. Bees have five eyes. Two compound eyes on the side of the head and three simple eyes in between. ‘Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher’ - Wordsworth #bees #nature #solitarybees #science #education #worldbeesanctuary

Here’s a #MondayMorningMinute with #nature here on #WorldBeeSanctuary. Take a moment. #pause Go do some #good. Have the best week you can. If you’re not having a good week - tell someone. And if someone tells you - Listen. Really #listen. #mentalhealth #wellbeing #summer #life #health #monday

Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. Dream beyond the hateful rantings of demented old men… #bee #goodnight #dream

Is it after the watershed? The watershed… What a quaint idea given the times we live in and the calibre of people in charge… Anyhow… Scratch the surface of the environmental space we operate in and you’ll find it’s filled with good intentions, bad actors, big egos… 1/3 substack.com/@necessaryst...

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#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 12. Some plants make their pollen hard to get. #bumblebees and some #solitarybees release this pollen by vibrating their flight muscles. This is BUZZ POLLINATION. Honey bees can’t do this. ‘The earth laughs in flowers’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson #bees

If anybody’s looking for me I’ll be low in the long grass with the BFT… Strictly on a need to know basis though!🤫 Wild Flower Hour. #wildflowerhour #BirdsFootTrefoil #wildflowers #July #summer #nature #worldbeesanctuary

Just a quick snapshot of bumblebee life. Nothing more. Nothing less. Nature at her purest here on World Bee Sanctuary during the week. No AI. No CGI. No deceit. No lies. No egos. No kings. #bumblebees #wildflowers #fieldscabious #meadows #summer #nature #wildlife #worldbeesanctuary #bees

People often enquire about the landscape around us here at World Bee Sanctuary. Well…if you send a drone up directly above us and do a 360° (which we did) this is what you get… Farmland and commercial forestry. Absolutely nothing of permanence for #nature. #wicklow #ireland #worldbeesanctuary

And for those of you who like the wider view…but no matter how you look at it, it’s still a fact, that keeping ever more hives of honey bees is detrimental to endangered native wild bees…so don’t. Or do…but realise and own your impact! (For the slow to take a hint: Don’t is the better option). #bees

The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 11. Keeping honey bees does NOT help our declining native wild bee populations. In fact keeping honey bees means more bees competing for ever more precious forage. ‘Bees are for life not just for honey.’ - The Bee Guy #bees #honeybees #nature

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 11. Keeping honey bees does NOT help our declining native wild bee populations. In fact keeping honey bees means more bees competing for ever more precious forage. ‘Bees are for life not just for honey.’ - The Bee Guy #bees #honeybees #nature

It’s #Friday folks! Have the best #weekend you can. You know the drill: Be #kind Be #gentle Be #true Be like #bees But realise, if your public representative is a millionaire/billionaire and you are not then he/she may well be public but they’re sure as hell not representative!

The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 10. Some bee species carry #pollen collected from #flowers back to their nest or hive in pollen baskets - #corbiculae - located on their hind legs. ‘Everything in excess is opposed to nature.’ - Hippocrates #bees #bumblebees #nature #pollinators

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 10. Some bee species carry #pollen collected from #flowers back to their nest or hive in pollen baskets - #corbiculae - located on their hind legs. ‘Everything in excess is opposed to nature.’ - Hippocrates #bees #bumblebees #nature #pollinators

Bee Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep. Dreams lend possibility to impossible circumstance. #bee #goodnight #dream

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 9. Bees are a #vegan evolution of wasps - feeding on #nectar and #pollen collected from #flowers rather than on prey. ‘Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson #bees #nature #worldbeesanctuary

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 8. Only about 10% of bee species are social. The other 90% are solitary #bees. They live in individual nests, don’t have a queen and don’t make honey. ‘The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude’ - Voltaire #nature #worldbeesanctuary #education

Sorry so late…I was busy! What? What? Oh leave me alone (on a beach!😂). 😊🌊🐝 #thebeachguy #escape #bees

The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 7. Bumblebee queens sit on their eggs to keep them warm. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Andersen #bees #nature #summer #bumblebees #clover #worldbeesanctuary #education #science

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 7. Bumblebee queens sit on their eggs to keep them warm. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Andersen #bees #nature #summer #bumblebees #clover #worldbeesanctuary #education #science

Late? For sure! But not as late as an Argentinian tackle! What? What? Okay, okay let’s go to VAR… And yes from this angle the second bumblebee does nothing wrong…had every right to go for that landing…on-flower decision stands… The beautiful game? Not any more. Nope. Not by a long shot! 😂😔🐝⚽️

The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 6. Male bumblebees can’t sting. (No stinger). They’re primarily here to do the wild thing! ‘Let me tell you about the birds and the #bees And the flowers and the trees And the moon up above And a thing called love’ - Herb Newman #nature #bumblebees