Ecoabelleira

26/01/2022

Tu pequeño jardín es importante para las abejas. Llénalo de flores.

Many urban gardens rich in pollinator-friendly plants and provide food all year round, find Bristol researchers

06/04/2021

La ONG SEO-BirdLife ha presentado recientemente los resultados de uno de sus proyectos estrella: el programa LIFE Olivares Vivos, llevado a cabo junto a la Universidad de Jaén y el CSIC, “que ha venido a demostrar que el modelo de olivicultura sostenible que propugna funciona”. “En solo tres ...

03/04/2021

25/11/2020

En los últimos años, las abejas se han ganado un lugar en los medios, sobre todo por la reducción de sus poblaciones debido a la pérdida de hábitat, el uso de insecticidas y el cambio climático. ¿Pero sabes qué les debemos y qué pasaría realmente si desaparecen?

11/11/2020

Telling the bees...
“There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.

“Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.

“Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.

“Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.

“The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.

“The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.

“Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,

“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”

“In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,

“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.

“But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.

“Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.

“Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.

“The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.”

~ Excerpt from https://www.amusingplanet.com/.../the-adorable-custom-of...

Art: The Bee Friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924)

29/10/2020

La destrucción de la Naturaleza está en el origen de la pandemia.

La "explotación insostenible" de recursos que lleva a la alteración del clima y las extinciones masivas son el origen del surgimiento de nuevas enfermedades planetarias, concluye el análisis encargado por el Panel Intergubernamental de Biodiversidad de Naciones Unidas

19/10/2020

“All for one and one for all.”

03/06/2020

Este espectacular insecto das nosas fragas foi declarado “Especie do Ano na Reserva de Biosfera Mariñas Coruñesas e Terras do Mandeo“

03/06/2020