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Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

April 10, 2018 by Erin Vincent 2 Comments

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Life on the farm is very different from the hustle and bustle of Atlanta! Beekeeping, for example, isn’t something that we saw much of…if any…in our old town. I’m sure it was there. We just didn’t know anyone that did it. Here on the farm uncle Joe and his uncle Johnny have honey bees! They have taken my son and I under their wing and are teaching us everything they know.

Check out one of our beekeeping adventures along with some of our favorite children’s books about honey bees!

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

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Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books for Kids

Our son has learned all about safety precautions when working with the bees. He has his own protective gear to wear and has even learned to use the smoker! Uncle Joe always opens the hives first to make sure the ladies are nice and calm before he lets my son and me in on the fun. Besides safety, we have learned how and why bees make honey and about their growth and life cycles. This is hands-on science at it’s best, folks!

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

Our Beekeeping Adventure

Did you know that sometimes the honey bee queen isn’t performing up to the standards that the hive needs and that causes them to perform a Supersedure? This is where the hive replaces the old queen with her daughter.

Sounds like something out of medieval times if you ask me.

Game of Thrones anyone?

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

 

Our Beekeeping Adventure

A Supersedure is not to be confused with a Swarm.

Swarming is the process by which a new honey bee colony is formed when the old queen bee

leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees. The new queen remains with what’s left

of the workers to carry on the original colony.

We were able to experience one of these swarms first-hand last week! Our son discovered

the swarm in a peachtree near the barn.

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

Our Beekeeping Adventure

Did you know that bees dance to communicate with each other?

We were able to watch their dancing up close and personal. It was quite fascinating!

Uncle Joe said they were communicating about the location of their new hive. Once

a new location is discovered the swarm will leave for its new home. As a beekeeper,

you want to capture the swarm before it leaves. If you can do this, then you’ve just

gained a new hive.

And then, they suddenly took to the skies!

There we were looking up at thousands of bees! My husband got video of their flight.

Unfortunately, the beekeepers were not ready. At the end of the video, you can hear

the startup of a weed eater. Uncle Joe tried to use the sound to disrupt the

communications of the queen bee with the worker bees, sometimes this works,

but no success this time. They flew off across the pasture fields to a new location

unknown to us. It was quite thrilling!

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books
Bees in flight!

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

Though one swarm was lost, we actually added another 6 hives to the farm the following day.

Our Favorite Bee Picture Books

Here are some of our favorite bee picture books to go along with our bee adventure.

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

Check out our favorite bee resources over at our post Harvesting Honey with Kids Unit Study!

Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books

What are your favorite bee books for kids?

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About Erin Vincent

Erin is a writer, blogger, and homeschooler to two intense kids. She loves nature, farm life, good books, knitting, new pens, and hot coffee. Erin is a contributing writer for Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Her work has also been featured on Simple Homeschool and Book Shark.

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  1. Lee @ Dragon'sEyeView says

    April 17, 2018 at 6:13 am

    I grew up in a beekeeping family — it was a lot of work for my dad along with a lot of awesome honey for us and gifts! Every once in awhile one of my kids will start researching if we can keep bees…thanks for sharing you list of books. Pollinators are necessary!!

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