Bees – Spaghetti Code Arcade

January 4, 2023

I am reading the bees in your backyard

A guide to north America’s bees by Josephy Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril. I don’t think I will be able to remember a fraction of the wild bees I am reading about but, its always interesting to read another book about bees.

To date I have read over 20 books about bees. I am pretty sure I am at least over 20 books about bees. In one of those books about bees I remember reading that there are over 4,000 published books about bees.

So if I read 100 books about bees a year it would only take me 40 years to read all the bee books. And by that time I am sure there would be a lot more books published about bees.

For me 100 bee books would mean that I would have to read nothing but books about bees for the next 40 years. That would be reading about only bees for a lot of years. That is if I could find all the books written about bees.

February 8, 2022

Maybe one day I want to have honey bee hives

I like honey. Even though I have not eaten much honey. I am pretty sure I like it. I think it would be nice to sit ans watch the honey bees.

But, for me it would probably be more exciting to make make houses for wild bees. At least one of the books about bees had how to build houses for wild bees. I don’t think they are that hard to build.

And it would be interesting to see and learn about all types of bees not only honey bees.

So I hope one day to build houses for wild bees. I guess that is what they are called. Anyway I want to build places for them to nest.

January 20, 2022January 19, 2022

The great sunflower project

This is the year 2022 that I hope to plant sunflowers and participate in The great sunflower project. I have know about it for years.

In past years I have grown sunflowers where I know the genus and species of the sunflower but, I never participated in the project.

So this year I hope to cross participating in the sunflower project off the imaginary list of things I want to do.

September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

I want to read python

programs having to do with honey bees and other bees. I looked up python and bees on github awhile ago and found some programs that had to do with bees And I was surprised.

I don’t know what program that I could make about bees for python. Maybe I could make a video game with a bee for the protagonist. I will think about it.

November 15, 2019November 14, 2019

I hope to take a lot of photograhs of

bees. Until I read California bees and blooms I never thought about taking pictures of bees. I would need to take pictures of bees to be able to draw them. Its a funny thing about bees. They don’t want to stay on a flower even if you don’t want to ask them. Strange.

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019

Bees and plants

I like bees and plants. When I was younger I was not much into bees or plants. Then I got into plants and now I am also into bees. I had never given bees much thought. I never knew that there were over 20, 000 species of bees in the world.

For years the only type of bees I thought existed in was honey bees and bumble bees. I was so wrong. And I am glad I was. Maybe if I write about bees and plants it will help me remember more of what i read.

I knew bees collects nectar and pollen. I was surprised to learn that bees also collected propolis. Which if I remember right is a sticky substance that the bees collect from certain plants. Its used to seal up their hive.

And I don’t think I thought about bees needing water either. The do need water. Once I learned that I always keep forgetting that fact.

I never even considered how long bees might live. With honey bees they can live about 6 weeks during the busy season. And several months in winter. If you had asked me how long bees lived before I knew anything about bees I wonder how long I would have said bees lives. Would I have said years.

Its also surprised me that worker honey bees are female. The males are called drones, and the queen bee lays the eggs. It took me awhile before i could remember the words worker, drone and queen.

I have never kept honey bee hives. I do hope to one day. I hope I will be up to it.