Hello fellow beekeepers and sweet honey lovers.
Bytheway,
does anyone have to mention that honey is sweet or honey obviously means sweet?
Who knows? Me and You!
Beekeeping has been around for centuries, lots of stories
told about bees and tons of honey eaten. In our community and Uganda, we have a
beliefs associated with bees and we are going to look at one of the commonest.
A bee buzzing around a member of family
This is so common and widely known by people in various
communities of Uganda that whenever a bee buzzes around a family member for
several minutes usually for 30minutes it indicates that a special visitor is coming
to that home for a visit. Often the visitor a long time no see person!
And this sign of a buzzing bee sometimes can last for two
days before the visitor come. I cannot verify the validity of this belief
though because it is not common and sometimes it is just a coincidence that a
bee buzzes and a visitor come after.
Usually bees’ buzzes around people’s fingers while at home
and working with water and this indicates that the bees are looking for water.
At home when I see bees coming to me while I am washing utensils or washing
clothes especially during the dry season, I just know that the trough where I
put water for my bees is empty; therefore I just get water and fill it. But
when bees are looking for water, they come in numbers of more than two bees at
a time. And if it is signaling for a visitor, it is usually one and buzzes
around the head and hears!
Bees are indeed wonderful insects – see one come to you to
deliver a message that I am coming very soon to visit you.
Bees keep buzzing.
