Hello Beekeepers, Tom Seeley of Cornell will be featured on Science Friday this week. You may remember that one of his doctoral students, Juliana Rangel (now at NCSU), spoke with us about swarming at an OCBA meeting this year. Tune in!
It was great to see bees flying yesterday!
Lewis
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Science Friday, Tom Seeley, Carl Flatow, May Berenbaum – Happy Holidays!
This Friday, December 24, the eve of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of L. L. Langstroth, the Public Radio program Science Friday, with host Ira Flatow, has two guests - Dr. Tom Seeley from Cornell University, author of the recently published book Honey Bee Democracy (see a sample chapter on Bee Culture’s web page) and May Berenbaum, author of Honey, I’m Homemade (Bee Culture’s Book Review at the end of this message), on the second hour of the show, both discussing the role L. L. played in modern beekeeping.
But for the 10 best honey bee videos you’ve ever seen, check out these, with Carl Flatow (of L. L. Langstroth Postage Stamp fame), Tom Seeley, and a swarm of honey bees...from the swarm leaving to setting up a new home right here. I have NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, seen this detail in a video series).
Please, pass this along to anybody and everybody you know who will learn from and enjoy this information on bees, swarms, and beekeepers. And who can check out either the original show, or the archives later this week.
Thanks to both Ira and Carl Flatow....Science at its best.
Bee Culture’s Book Review of May Berenbaum’s book published in the December issue of Bee Culture...
Honey, I’m Homemade. Sweet treats from the beehive across the centuries and around the world. Edited by May Berenbaum. 184 pages, 6.5” x 8”. B & W. Soft cover. ISBN 9780252077449. $21.95 Published by Univ Of IL Press.
May Berenbaum is a prestigious researcher and scientist at Univ IL. She is the Swanlund Professor of Entomology there, and has written a score of other books about insects and people. She is also involved with CCD research and other projects. I’ve had the good fortune to meet and talk with her on a few occasions. This book is a collection of recipes gathered from the historic files of Univ IL Vern Milum, the IL State Beekeepers historic records, very special family friends and other places, that have been updated, modernized, or left as is, and include cookies, bard, breads, muffins, desserts, pies and puddings, cakes and more. Profits from the sale of the book are to be donated to help maintain the Univ of IL Pollinatarium, a science center devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators.
At the beginning are 20 some pages on honey bee lore, honey information, and pollination science and wisdom by the Editor, and at the end there is information on honey festivals, and a great reference section. In between, there’s all these recipes, a couple hundred by my reckoning. Some ethnic, some familiar, some to me unknown, some good, some better. It’s a fun stroll through May’s good choices. If you are looking for a good honey cookbook, this is one to look at twice. And the money you spend helps a lot more than just the beekeepers who collect the honey you use.
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