Who Doesn't Love the Honey Bee

During a break from the report that I am writing, I went out and cleaned the top feeder and refilled it with a gallon of Sugar syrup. I have been reading a few books on beekeeping and have determined like many hobbies you can read a book on the topic but until you do it and make some mistakes that things really dont sink in. Planbee by Susan Brackney is a decent book.

Overall the bees look good and appear to be recovering from my attempt to starve them.

A few trivial bee facts to close out the post.
1. Some historical records suggest Alexanfer the Great was buried in a honey filled coffin.
2. A worker bee will dance a figure eight pattern to tell other bees about the location of a good nectar source.
3. Honey at a basic middle school boy level is basically bee vomit - actually the bee has a special stomach that nectar is stored in for transit.
4.Honeycombs are not level, rather they point up by 13 degrees. This upward tilt keeps the honey from flowing out of the comb.
5. On averge it takes about 10 minutes for a foraging bee to amass a full load of pollen and three times as long to acquire a full load of nectar.
6. The average Americans consume 1.31 pounds of honey a year.
7. A tablespoon of honey has 64 calories.
8. Bee hives (and hornets) were used as weapons in both the American Revolution, Civil War, and in Vietnam.

Weather - hot and humid. Huge Thunderstorm on Tuesday.