Buzzing about bees
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Pam Burton gets a little depressed during cold winter months.
Yet, when one of those fluky 50-degree days happens in mid-February, she looks out her window, smiling when she sees bees flying around.
"It gives me stamina to push through 'til spring," says Burton, 45, who lives in Gloucester, Va.
The mysterious world of bees stung Burton's interest when she looked up the word "apiculture," checking its meaning and spelling, after hearing about the NASA Langley Apiculture Club. Curious, she attended meetings and read up on beekeeping for about a year. Then she bought her first 3-pound "package" of bees, which typically arrive by mail from commercial apiaries, mostly in the South.
That Langley club now is called the Colonial Beekeepers Association, with about 110 members, about 35 of them women.
Burton, club treasurer, keeps a "race" of the apis melliera honey bee species known as Italian, basically a Western European bee. There were no honey bees in North America before colonists brought them here.
"Italians are good-tempered and build up their numbers quickly in spring, so they tend to be good honey producers," she said.
Once Burton gets a Carniolan queen bee in the mail, she will start her third hive; her two hives contain about 80,000 bees.
In Newport News, Va., just across the river from Gloucester, Susan Lawlor wanted bees to help pollinate the vegetables she likes to grow. She keeps bees from local sources in a hive that's a starter colony of sorts, about half the size of a full-strength hive.
"I moved five years ago to a neighborhood with yards and gardens and noticed an almost complete absence of bees," she said.
"Vegetables in the garden weren't growing because the blossoms weren't getting pollinated. So I started looking into what was involved in beekeeping, how much time and space it would take and found it can be done on a very small scale in almost any location. I decided to give it a try."
To get started, she spent about $500 for protective clothing, hive boxes, frames and tools. Ongoing expenses include buying sugar to make supplemental food and jars for the honey she extracts.
"I'm planning to expand to two full hives but that's really all I have room for."
Lawlor, 54, also is a member of the Colonial Beekeepers Association, which offers free classes, as well as the Virginia State Beekeeping Association.
"Joining a local beekeeping association is essential," she said. "Beekeeping is an art as much as it is a science and being able to observe and ask questions is extremely helpful.
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Bees work the honeycombs in hives at the home of Peter Ostrowski, president of the Colonial Beekeepers Association. (Photos courtesy Peter Ostrowski/Newport News Daily Press/MCT) Bees work the honeycombs in hives at the home of Peter Ostrowski,
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Culture is manifested in a number of ways; one is through the customs and traditions of a group of people or a country. For example, the customs and tradition of a Catholic country would most likely have a Catholic orientation that reflects the influence of religion on that culture. Another very good example on how culture is manifested is through clothing, because the clothing of a certain group of people can say a lot about their culture. However, given that cultures are now easily “transferred” from one place to another, clearly distinguishing one culture from another through clothing has become a little more difficult. But in the past, the way people dressed was highly reflective of their own specific culture and other aspects of their way of life. This was especially true in colonial America. During colonial times, clothes did more than serve its basic function because the clothes that people wore during those times were also considered as distinguishing marks that reflected their status in life. This was especially true for women, who were then considered as “second class” citizens because they had to wear very uncomfortable clothes that include long-sleeved dresses that were very tight at the waist. In addition to this, women also had to wear corsets, which at times were too tight that it sometimes caused injury to the woman wearing it, and they also had to wear petticoats, which were very heavy and uncomfortable to “carry” around. As can be expected, the clothes of the men were more comfortable, as they only had to contend with wearing pants up to their knees, overcoats, linen shirts, knee socks and heavy shoes. In addition to these, the only addition to the wardrobe is a powder white wig. Apart from showing their gender, the clothes during those times also showed the status of the one wearing it, which was reflected in the type of material used for the clothes.
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