A golden humming cloud of honeybees arrived unexpectedly one sunny June morning and moved into a knothole in the siding of the house. Three weeks later, Mr. E. helped these mysterious creatures into a comfy wooden box in his garden and began to live the lifelong dream of herding millions of stinging insects and collecting their sweet honey. Please enjoy the adventures of Mr. E's Mysterious Bees.





March 3, 2010

Honey Badger


I found a cool site called Scientific-Illustration while looking for some honey bee images. I have heard of these creatures but never saw pictures of them.

"The honey badger, consistent with its name, is known to raid honeybee hives. Not only is the badger after honey, but it also feeds on the honeybee larva. Naturally, the bees aren’t too pleased about the badger’s invasion, but have few options, with the badger being mostly resistant to their stings. While not immune to the stings, the badger’s thick skin and coarse, bristly hair offer protection from bee stings...read more here after the jump...

But be sure to come back and check out these amazing videos. It is interesting to see the difference in the tone we take now as compared to the 70's in nature shows. No more cute sound effects of bees stinging the nose. Now it is all about murderous and violent thugs in nature. I'd like to go back to the innocent "good old days".


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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 14, 2010 at 8:10 PM

    I love the old honey badger nature video. The bird/badger teamwork is so great! Thanks Eli.

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  2. EliMarch 15, 2010 at 8:36 PM

    sure thing. I really love finding out about all these cooperative animal species. and if there are cute sound effects it is all the better.

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