Yes, Tim applied it to be able to identify her quickly...
www.beefolklore.ie Sharing folklore & photographs of things I like. Lover of nature, bees, animals & the wonderful world of myths & legends across Irish & international folk traditions. Eimear Chaomhánach, author of 'The Keeper of the Bees' #booksky💙📚
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Yes, Tim applied it to be able to identify her quickly...
There she is. Dressed in green. In all her glory. The Queen 👑 #InsectThursday 🐝 📍Tim Regan's bees in Killarney #Kerry 📸me #nature #photography #bees #honey #apiary #Ireland #autumn
Looking forward to this 🌿✨ #nature #booksky #writers #biodiversity #dublin #speirgorm #wildlife #citylife #hiddengems
There's no better place for #storytelling than JohnB's hometown✨ #Listowel International Storytelling Festival: 18-21 Sept💫 Delighted to be part of it🐝 🎟️https://kerrywritersmuseum.com/book-now/ #Folklore #Speirgorm #Festivals #Kerry #Art #Ireland @theobrienpress.bsky.social @kerrycoco.ie
#Shiny Blackberries 😋 #Blueskyartshow 📍Killarney, Co Kerry #Ireland 🌿🌱🌿 #Autumn #photography #nature #Eastcoastkin #foraging #wildfruits
The girl can dance! 💃 The worker bees' waggle dance, telling the others where pollen & nectar can be found Can you spot her? #InsectThursday #joy 💫 📽 #Killarney #Kerry #bees #nature #communication #hive #dancing
How lovely
How had I never seen crimson clover before? Just beautiful 🤎 #wildflowers #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #killarney #thekingdom #speirgorm #simplicity #beauty
I couldnt recommend it more Shannon...a little gem just a few km's from Killarney town. A breath of fresh air. (Tim's wife had homebaked scones too! 😋)
This is Tim Regan. He runs Killarney Bee Walks & Honey Tastings A lovely way to spend the day 🐝🐝🐝 #Kerry #tours #tasting #honey #nature #wildflowers #beekeeping #spéirghorm #ireland #thekingdom
A bumble with a gorgeous yellow rump, carrying yellow pollen baskets on a yellow Bird's-foot trefoil #sundayyellow #stunday ✨️💛💫 📍Kilarney, Co. Kerry #nature #photography #beauty #Ireland #macro
Lovely image
Wonderful!
Maybe some people still believe it to this day 😊🤔
I found another very similar rhyme (from UK also): Honeybees, honeybees Hear what I say Your master JA has gone away His wife now begs you to freely stay And make honey for ever and a day Honeybees, honeybees hear what I say
Yes, in folklore, there was the belief that newborn wasn't considered a human until they ingested food
The bees reaction to a smoker has ancient evolutionary origins #Bees associate smoke with their forest being on fire It prompts them to huddle up & eat honey in preparation for a potential flight & so they are less likely to sting 🐝 #forestfriday #scape #nature #photography 🌳Co. Wicklow
#bees #pollinators #ukwildlife #photography A few August 20th bees of previous years.
A bee working the heather in the Wicklow mountains last w/e 💜 In folklore it was said that bees sought out heather-laden areas, knowing that it made especially flavoursome honey ✨️🐝💫 #insectthursday #folklorethursday #nature #photography #hiking #spéirghorm #wildflowers #pollination #ireland
Nature taking its course... #InsectThursday 🕷🐝 #nature #photography #spider #bee #beedown #gardening #insects #spéirghorm
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Awe, it was *such* a pleasure meeting & speaking with you Sharon. Thank you for inviting me to be part of your wonderful podcast. I enjoyed every minute of it 🐝🐝
Lovely to be part of such a fab, folklore-filled window display @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social 📚💕 #dublin #mythologymonday #booksky #nature #IrishFolklore #customs #beliefs #myths #legends #gardening #spéirghorm #buylocal #bookchatweekly
A sea of purple...its a lovely time of year for heather alright
Gorgeous gorse surrounded by purple heather 💛💜 #SundayYellow #Stunday 📸me 📍Seefin, Co. Wicklow #hiking #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #wicklowmountains #naturesky #heatherhoney #bees
😄We've all been there...
'...there suck we, alchemical, nectar-slurred, pollen-furred, the world's mantra us, our blurry sound along the thousand scented miles to the hive...' ✍️Carol Ann Duffy's 'Hive' Happy #Worldhoneybeeday 💜🐝 📸me #nature #photography #blueskyartshow #bees #biodiversity #poetry #bookchatweekly
Her little sanctuary #caturday 💚
Bees & butterflies were believed to be intermediaries between this world and the otherworld They embodied the souls of the dead - becoming the celestial messengers of the gods #Folkyfriday 💫 📸me #nature #insects #photography #folklore #legend #celestial #lore
I know, you're so right. I hear that you can now buy a bag with 3 coins with bee reliefs on them to accomplish the same job!
Bees-in-a-bag was a prosperity #charm used in Devon 🐝 It involved capturing bees in a bag & hanging it in the best room in the house (In #Ireland this would be the front room!) This was said to bring health, happiness and sweet good fortune 🪄 #BookologyThursday #Folklore #Magic #Speirghorm
Pretty in pink 🌸 For #InsectThursday The last of my gladiolus to bloom 📸me #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #pollinators #gardening #bumblebees 🐝
I'm loving this In it, #MartinHayes shares that his Dad (also a fiddle-player) said that if a tune had tradition, it meant it had soul... That a tune is like a musically encoded feeling ✨💫✨ #TraditionalMusic #Ireland #Speirghorm #Trad #Booksky #Bookchatweekly #Writing #Memoir #Reading #Music
Ah, I was thinking of actual wallpaper rather than digital wallpaper, but yes, I might just do that! 😊
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If I could order this as wallpaper, I would #SundayYellow 💫✨️ 📸North Dublin #flowersonsunday #nature #ireland #augustblooms #bloomscrolling #hiking #stunday #photography
Bumble in camouflage in sea of yellow #SundayYellow #Stunday 💛 📸North Dublin #photography #nature #bloomscrolling #speirghorm
The #jagged leaf edge 💚 #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #shadows #photography #nature #speirghorm #mygarden
The 2 main reasons for swarming (of farmed bees or those kept in beehives) is the birth of a new queen or overcrowding
Ancient customs to prevent bees from swarming! Ringing the bees in #Ireland, brushing a cow's afterbirth on a hive 3 times in #Germany, spraying a hive with warm water/wine in #UK & in #Palestine rotating a loaf of bread on a table 3 times ensured the bees stayed put #FolkyFriday #Folklore #Food
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Lavender - catnip for bees #InsectThursday 💜 📸my garden, earlier this summer #nature #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #macro #pollinators
For one of the delicious things about folklore is the promise that it makes to us that just beyond the gate to the meadow, just beyond the first trees of the wood, lives wonder. For folklore is never less than an enrichment of inner lives. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore
I find that the Irish language often describes a word's meaning more accurately, for me personally "Folklore" in Irish is "Béaloideas" "Béal" is mouth & "oideas" is teaching or education = teaching via the oral tradition💫💛 #storytelling #language #Irish #spéirghorm #culture #folklore #gaeilge
Amazing!
Bluey purple & bumbles #Gardenshour 💜
This is Anthony Freeman, a beekeeper in Dublin 8 Single handedly, he has created this beautiful, serene urban sanctuary in what was a derelict sight Pure joy chatting with him at #TheLibertiesFestival #Speirghorm #Community #Environment #Bee8 #Folklore #GreenSpaces @thelibertiescp.bsky.social
Wonderful
Cosy 💙 A bumble working a Delphinium for #InsectThursday Folklore says the colour blue makes bees more industrious! #nature #photography #gardening #flowers #julyblooms #bloomscrolling #spéirghorm #bees #pollinators #folklore
In ancient times #honey was daubed on the bride's lips & placed on the door of newly-weds' home for good luck #Honeymoon comes from the ancient ritual of drinking mead for a moon cycle after marriage And honey has literally become a synonym for a beloved 💕🍯 #LegendaryWednesday #Folklore #Weddings
Eimear Chaomhánach, a beekeeper’s daughter and a student of folklore, will be in conversation with Anthony Freeman this Saturday, 26th July at The Liberties Festival, discussing her book ‘The Keeper of the Bees - Bees and Beekeeping in Irish Folklore.’ Tickets are now available!
On her way in... The yellow petal of the Gladiolus 🏵🐝🏵 #SundayYellow #Stunday 📸me #photography #nature #gardenblooms #july #bloomscrolling #gardening #bees #pollinators
Lady Augusta Gregory was a keen #folklorist She collected an anecdote saying "Aristotle of the books was very wise, but the bees got the best of him in the end!"🐝 She later wrote a play 'Aristotle's Bellows' based on Irish folklore & mythology #FolkyFriday #Writers #Spéirghorm #Art #JBYeats
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A sky to get lost in #Scape Friday ☁️Dollymount Strand, #Dublin 📷me #photography #nature #skyscape #clouds #spéirghorm
With a little rain, fuchsia serves up shelter, water & nectar ✨️ #InsectThursday 🐝🐝🐝 #nature #photography #gardening #pollinators #bees #bloomscrolling
Ireland's Brehon Laws were an ancient code of lawful behaviour & crops, land & animals featured Bees had a subset: Bechbretha (Bee Laws) One such law said that if bees fed from flowers on neighbours land, this neighbour was due a share of the honey yield🍯🌿 #LegendaryWednesday #agriculture #law
Happy to be part of The Liberties Festival in the 💙 of #DublinCity Speaking with #Bee8's Anthony Freeman amongst his bees, gorgeous garden & sculptures: 26Jul, 6:30, FreeBEE 🐝 thelibertiesfestival.com @libertiesdublin.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social #Speirgorm #Festivals #Booksky #Nature
I haven’t shared Doucet’e early #1900s bee dress in a while and it is perfect bee weather so here it is. The white background highlights the unusual embroidery darting about the surface of the gown, each striped insect alighting on different parts of the dress #madparis #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
🌼 ✨️🔆✨️ 🌼 #SundayYellow #Stunday #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #flowerpower #pollinators #gardening 🌱 📸me
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You would be surprised! I know of lots of friends who begged & borrowed a statue night before their wedding day
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Virgil's Fourth Georgic was devoted to beekeeping In #verse he describes roles in the hive: 'others pack the honeyed excellence Close, with pure nectar plumping every cell; And some by lot are warders of the gate, And scan the clouds in turn...' 🐝 #BookwormSat #Bookchatweekly #AncientRome #bees
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Sand sandwich #summerdaze #blueskyartshow #summervibes #italy #photography #seascape 📸me
Im going down that rabbit hole 👌
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So reliable! 😆 I didn't hear of it being employed for communions I have to say!
That_is_gas @aidanobrien.bsky.social😅 Thanks for sharing
So true!
A popular Irish custom, carried out to this day, is leaving a Child of Prague statue outdoors under a bush the night before a wedding to ensure good weather If the statue's head breaks off it heightens the odds of sunny weather! 💫🔆 #FolkyFriday #weatherlore #folklore #speirgorm #tradition #Ireland
Bee related weather-lore for #FolkyFriday 🔆🐝 "When bees to distance wing their flight Days are warm and skies are bright But when their flight ends near their home Stormy weather is sure to come" ✍️Richard Inwards, 1893 #proverbs #folklore #nature #bees #photography #bloomscrolling #gardening 📷me
Picnic crash 💥 #insectthursday #pollinators #nature #flowers #clover #photography #bloomscrolling 📸me
Folklore offers wonderful narratives as to the origin of bees on earth 💫 Egyptian mythology describes bees being created from the tears of Sun God Ra Ra's right eye signified the #sun, his left the #moon & when he wept, his tears transformed into bees 🌔🌓🌖 #LegendaryWednesday #astrology #folklore
Just in time for #Wildflowerhour ✨️🌟✨️ #bloomscrolling #nature #joy #photography #stunday 📸me, Italy
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Branching #sideways ✨️ #BlueskyArtShow #Eastcoastkin #nature #photography #trees 📸me, Dublin
Great to see/learn those words in Welsh. Mêl and medd are pretty similiar... Thank you 🐝
Very true! 🐝 My garden is for the pollinators also! 🌸🌼🌻
A monk named Modomnoc is said to have introduced bees to Ireland in the 6th century, #travelling by boat from Wales Native Irish words about bees emerged at this time such as beach (bee), mil (honey) & míodh (mead) 🐝 #FolkloreThursday #Legend #Speirgorm #InsectThursday #IrishLanguage #Nature 📷me
Might this be recorded, live-streamed or shared online (via youtube etc) afterwards? It sounds wonderful
Wonderful, thanks for sharing! 🐝
Warfare is a common theme in legends about Gobnait - a fierce warrior & patroness of the bees My favourite is folklore describing Gobnait transforming her bees into soldiers to combat her enemy & protect her people 💪💫🐝 #LegendaryWednesday #Folklore #Legend #Speirgorm #Ireland #art #sculpture
Imagine having a stroll in a giant callistemon bottlebrush 🤩🤯❤️ #stunday #nature #photography #bees #pollination #naturesky #bloomscrolling 📸me, Skerries, Dublin
"Skerries Wild Bee Festival" North County Dublin today allowed me completely nerd-out on #pollinators up close! 🔍 Gorgeous location of the old Skerries Mills 🌻🍃🌻 #solitarybees #hoverflies #mimics #nativeflowers #nature #speirgorm #summersolstice #ireland
Beauty to be found in the most narrow of gaps 💫 #blueskyartshow #narrow #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #joy
Purple with a backdrop of gorgeous green + a special winged visitor this AM 💜💚 #insectthursday #gardening #lavender #bloomscrolling #nature #relief #photography 📷me
Goddess Artemis, queen of nature & mistress of the beasts, is often intertwined with bees On her tunic are animal heads, flowers & 7 bees, one taking pride of place by her feet 🐝 A thing of beauty #goddess #archaeology #history #sculpture #art #mythologymonday 📷me, MANN #Naples
Lemon trees belong in fairytales 💫✨️🍋 #stunday #sundayyellow #mellowyellow #nature #photography #citrus #goodness 💛 📷me #Italia
The calmness of evening light #Scape Friday #nature #photography #seascape #skyscape #sunset #eastcoastkin 📷me #Italia
Orange crush for #InsectThursday 🧡 #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #joy #photography #pollination 📷me
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A wonderful mosaic of #Neptune brilliantly preserved Neptune was the great Roman mythical God of the Sea 🌊🌊🌊 📍Ruins of Paestum, Salerno (500-450BC) 📷me #Italy #WorldOceanDay #Sea #MythologyMonday #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Architecture #History #Art #Photography
My Dad uses the phrase "we're in clover" to mean "we're all good" This bee sipping from a clover cup pic is for him on #FathersDay as we're not together today 💛🐝💛 #stunday #nature #photography #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #sayings #thekeeperofthebees #Da 📍taken this AM, Agropoli #Italy
Regal 💚💛
Great capture
This is a very beautiful & moving read Diary of a Young Naturalist by @naturalistdara.bsky.social #booksky #bookrecommendation #naturewriting #conservationist #activist #wildlife #escape #speirgorm
The vibrance of a bee in flight 💜 #BlueskyArtShow #Vibrant #EastCoastKin #nature #photography #thelittlethings #energy 📷 me
Hope sunshine is on its way to you