As President of the Enderis Park Bird Watching Club, I very much enjoy the fascinating birding programs that the Program Committee assembles for the club's bi-monthly meetings. The topics covered are and have been very diverse and wide-ranging. (If you'd like to see a listing of all of them, visit this link HERE) But June 5Th, 2008's program was all together new territory for a "bird" watching club; The Birds and the Bees.
Steven Fronk - Bee Man
Now one might conjure up all sorts of (PG and up) ratings for one such program, but I assure you, it is unnecessary. The focus of the evening was on the actual "insect," the bee. Honey Bees to bee more exact. EPBWC member, Steven Fronk himself a beekeeper, brought many of the tools of the trade to the Enderis Park Fieldhouse (Our usual meeting place) for show and tell. The attendees assembled were totally enthralled with the facts and figures of bee-keeping, and Steve was a real "honey" and unbee-lievable story teller as he guided the group through the lifecyle of honey bees and their marvelous product. He also brought in a DVD from NOVA on the life of bees called "Tales from the Hive" and shared it, after his talk.
The highlight of the evening was samples of his bee's work...golden honey! Steve also had a small gift jar of the sweet nectar for each attendee, from his bee-utiful bees, and an extra special honey gift box for the president (me). I could fill this blog with all sorts of facts and figures regarding the keeping of bees, but lets face it...you know how to "Google" too and why not? I will leave you this one nugget of gleaned information to remember; bees need to visit about 2 million flowers to make just 1 pound of honey! AMAZING!!
Mr. Thunander raises a toast to the bee!
No comments:
Post a Comment