I’ve recently heard and seen many music videos, cartoons, and movies use honey bees in scenes, lyrics, or drawings. My favorite song that uses honey bees is “Honey Bee” by Blake Shelton….
I also really enjoyed the song
Parents: They mean more than anything
NEWS: MOMMY MOLLY IS STILL PREGNANT!!!
Everything in my tank is going wonderfully. My water is clearing up after I changed the filter and changed the water a little TOO much in one afternoon. Doing both in one day was a little to much for my water and left my tank cloudy. I can’t do another water change for a week, but I can add water to the tank because my water line seems to be receding (partially because of the breeding box sharing the water with the tank).The plants in my tank are starting to look really great… alive and green because of photosynthesis. The problem, though, is that photosynthesis is working TOO much, SO WHILE the tank is getting clearer but the amount of algae in my tank is growing.
Also my Mommy Molly was due to “pop” earlier this week, so any time she could have another batch of babies. Her previous twelve babies are to move into my mom’s 55 gallon tank this weekend so they have more room to grow and then we can sell them to The House of Tropicals.
Now, that Mommy Molly is in the breeding box or as I am calling it the, “nesting box” the male molly doesn’t have anyone to harass. Fortunately,Mommy should be out soon and he will get to harass her some more. I’ve decided on how to deal with the two male mickey mouse platties I have in my tank: I am going to return one, get two females, and also purchase another female molly so that the females can tag team and get a break every now and then.
I am really starting to get excited about my fish, and my tank in general. I’ll have to add pictures once I get them uploaded. SORRY!
From Avaaz.org:
Dear friends across Europe,
In less than 36 hours, European countries will vote on plans to ban bee killing pesticides, but Bayer and other chemical giants are out in full forcetrying to protect their profits from needed safety regulation. Our governments are buckling under the pressure -- let’s counteract the corporate bullying with a flood of messages to our Agriculture Ministers to save the bees!
Is it worth it? Probably not…
Teen love. I guess that’s life.
(I set this memoir to post on Saturday and it never did. WordPress and I have issues sometimes.)
So… you might be wondering why I’m the bee’s knees and it’s because I am so excited about one of my 4H projects this year which is… BEES!
I’ve been doing a lot of research and reading about bees. They have turned out to be really cool since they have lots of little details that you might not know at first, but once I’d gotten the chance to research them I saw them with a new perspective.
Some Bees in the hive collect nectar, others collect pollen!
In 2006, beekeepers were reporting that bees were leaving their honey, pollen and brood in the hives and disappearing, which is weird because usually bees are very protective of their hive; for example the reason bees stings you is because you were a threat to its food/honey, or its babies/brood. The bees’ disappearance has been labeled Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Scientists don’t have any hard facts as to why the bees are leaving. There aren’t any signs of the bees being unhealthy until they disappearance.
I was so drawn to doing a bee project this year because I want to study environmental science in college, and bees are a huge reason that our crops grow. They cross-pollinate the different fields and if their species become extinct, then our country’s food will start to diminish.
I was able to start my project before the bees even reached our house. My uncle “happily” agreed to help me construct a top bar bee hive from a plan in one of our family’s D.I.Y. books, but when we got down to it my uncle had to make a lot of changes to the size of the wood. We are almost done building the hive after a lot of runs to Lowe’s. My mother and I have just started to attend Howard County’s Short Class on Beekeeping, and we’re also planning on joining the Anne Arundel County Beekeeper’s Association so that we can be surrounded with valuable information about beekeeping.
If my project goes as planned I will have two hives (one top bar and one Langstroth hive), and my mother and I will buy Russian bees from North Carolina (ROAD TRIP!). The first year we probably won’t get any honey, but in the second year we should be able to harvest.
I will keep you updated on whats happening! 
