{"id":1256,"date":"2017-06-08T04:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2017-06-08T04:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:36:59","slug":"bees-natures-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/bees-natures-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees&#8230;.Nature&#8217;s Artists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Greetings and Salutations;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bees are interesting creatures. \u00a0 They sometimes do amazing things, \u00a0all driven by nothing but instance. \u00a0 We, who are their Guardians, \u00a0 are, at times, \u00a0amazed by what they do. \u00a0 For example&#8230;I am sure y&#8217;all have seen the classic pictures of frames of bees and honey from a Langstroth hive. \u00a0 It looks amusingly neat, \u00a0with row after row of comb, \u00a0filled with honey, pollen and brood \u00a0 lined up on the supporting frames. \u00a0 Even a wild swarm will, \u00a0when it takes residence in a safe cave, \u00a0will build comb hanging down from the ceiling in more or less parallel sheets. \u00a0 However, \u00a0this is not always the case. \u00a0 Sometimes, \u00a0if a hive is poorly maintained, \u00a0 or the cave is too irregular for those neat walls of comb, \u00a0then, \u00a0the bees will create what is called &#8220;Wild Comb&#8221;. \u00a0 They will build a twisting sheet of comb \u00a0where ever they can, \u00a0in order to make the cells necessary for storage and reproduction. \u00a0 Sometimes, \u00a0these efforts create lovely, almost sculpted, sheets of comb. \u00a0 Recently, \u00a0I ran across a picture of one of these examples of wild comb on the Net, \u00a0and thought I would pass it along \u00a0here in the blog.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1258 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wild-comb-2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wild-comb-2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wild-comb-2-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wild-comb-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is worthy, \u00a0I think, \u00a0of being mounted on a stand, \u00a0and admired as an art piece \u00a0just as the work of Matisse, \u00a0or some other sculptors&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In these days of Darkness&#8230;it is a good thing to find even a small example of beauty and glowing life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God Help Us All.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bee Man Dave<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>=-=-=-=-=<br \/>\n<i>Powered by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogilo.gnufolks.org\/\">Blogilo<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations; Bees are interesting creatures. \u00a0 They sometimes do amazing things, \u00a0all driven by nothing but instance. \u00a0&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2017\/06\/08\/bees-natures-artists\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[439,3,16,440],"tags":[707,704,705,413,706],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-beekeeping-2","category-ruminations","category-sculpture-art-2","tag-artistry","tag-bees","tag-honey-comb","tag-sculpture","tag-wild-comb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}