Category Archives: Movies
A Century of Honey Songs
It’s Sunday morning, just a week before Christmas. I’m hoping that your bee work is done and you have some time to listen to a few tunes from honey-throated singers and sticky-fingered musicians. Our first gift to you is Flight … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged music, tupelo honey, Ulee's Gold, Winnie the Pooh
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Hate Nation’s Bees
I’m pretty fussy about the shows I catch. Unless they include bees – then I’ll watch almost anything. The folks over at the London School of Economics beekeeping site mentioned a British dystopian thriller, Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, Save the Bees
Tagged Black Mirror, dystopia, Hate Nation, murderous bees, Robobees
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Good News: No Killer Bees at the Olympics
Whatever happened to the Killer Bees? Killer Bees – more accurately, hybrids of European and African honey bees – were supposed to destroy the world, or at least kill a lot of people trying. They started out in Brazil, not … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Culture, or lack thereof, Diseases and Pests, History, Humour, Killer Bees, Movies, Stings, Swarms
Tagged Africanized honey bees, Brazil, Killer Bees, Olympics, The Swarm
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The Wonders of Beekeeping
I’m wondering if anyone reading this blog has seen a movie called The Wonders. It’s a beekeeping movie. Sort of. From what I’ve read about the film (and seen in the trailers) it appears to be an Italian Ulee’s Gold … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, Outreach
Tagged beekeeping in Italy, Italy, The Wonders, Ulee's Gold
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Bee Rustlers on the Rise
In the old days, cowboys occasionally stole cows. Horse thieves were sometimes hanged. Not always, though. Back in Val Marie, Saskatchewan, a cattle town that I lived in for ten years, there was a fellow named Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial Beekeeping, Movies, People, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged bee theft, Drurer, Quebec, Val Marie, Will James
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Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday
Today, January 6, is the fictional characters’ birthday. He would 162 years old, had he bothered to live so lived. In celebration of the great fictional detective’s fictional birthday, here’s a repeat of the piece I wrote to honour Sherlock … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, People
Tagged Ian McKellen, Mr Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Ulee's Gold
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Beekeeping Promo Flashback
This video goes back about 15 years, but a friend asked me about the 6 minutes of local fame I experienced on the Dave Kelly morning show, so I looked up the film. The quality of the tape (and my … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Comb Honey, Culture, or lack thereof, Honey, Movies, Outreach
Tagged Calgary, Calgary Bee Club, Dave Kelly
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Mr Holme’s Bees
Sherlock Holmes is more than an ordinary beekeeper – as you’ll find out in this summer’s new movie, Mr Holmes. I watched it at a Calgary theatre with my wife this evening. I’m glad we went. We don’t get out … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, People
Tagged Ian McKellen, Mr Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Ulee's Gold
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Burt’s Bee Buzz
Arguably, the most famous beekeeper in all history was an unlikely hippie living off the land in Maine’s remote woodlands. Burt Shavitz died this weekend. He was living the good life, a reclusive member of the back-to-nature, granola-chewing crowd. In … Continue reading
Posted in Hive Products, Movies, People
Tagged Burt Shavitz, Burt's Bees, lip balm, Maine, Roxanne Quimby
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Bee People
I previewed a new beekeeping movie, something a little different. I have to give Bee People a mixed review. I’ll walk through some of what I liked, do my thumbs down bit, then try to wrap up with some overall … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, Save the Bees
Tagged Bee People Movie
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