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To: SheepWhisperer

There is a weird Romanian bee keeper at my market who charges a king’s ransom for honey. ($25 for 8 oz, last time I priced it. And it’s local, not Manukan.) I was talking to him one day and a bee landed on his finger and he was “petting” it.


1,604 posted on 01/03/2023 7:35:58 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: ponygirl

BeeWhisperer!


1,605 posted on 01/03/2023 7:40:07 AM PST by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: ponygirl
There is a weird Romanian bee keeper at my market who charges a king’s ransom for honey. ($25 for 8 oz, last time I priced it. And it’s local, not Manukan.) I was talking to him one day and a bee landed on his finger and he was “petting” it.

The bee must be in on it.

1,607 posted on 01/03/2023 7:52:07 AM PST by Keflavik76 (Don't want to be a brick in Babylons wall.)
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To: ponygirl
There is a weird Romanian bee keeper at my market who charges a king’s ransom for honey. ($25 for 8 oz, last time I priced it. And it’s local, not Manukan.) I was talking to him one day and a bee landed on his finger and he was “petting” it.

My great uncle, Calvin (a beekeeper) used to do that. #memories
1,611 posted on 01/03/2023 7:53:54 AM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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re: honey

I charged $12 for a pint, $24 for a quart.
I had Italian honeybees, but there are other strains, some a bit more aggressive and some less so. They are generally defensive when the hive is opened but out flying around mine were very docile.

When I would extract honey from the frames, there would usually be a few strays that I didn’t manage to remove before bringing the frames inside, and I could let them walk onto my hand and then I could release them outside.

I miss it.


1,614 posted on 01/03/2023 8:16:32 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Abortion is just a new spin on human sacrifice by worshipers of self and selfishness. )
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