[Assam] This reminds me of your bees Chandan Da

[uttam borthakur]

Dear Chandan Da,
 
I enjoyed your instructive piece thoroughly. Thanks. Especially "Yesterday the weather turned a tad warmer, to about 40 deg F ( 4.4 deg C), and I saw a few bees getting out of their hives to go bathroom. It is yet another danger for bees in cold winter environments, not being able to go out to go move their bowels for extended periods of time ( they don't like to soil their hives by going inside). If that happens their intestines get all compacted with excreta and liable to die.

*** Just finished reading a book on some amazing new discoveries about bees, written by Thomas D. Seeley, a Cornell U. prof., called Honey-bee Democracy. The book is touted to become a classic. If people could learn to behave like bees, we would have a far superior 
civilization."

Thanks once again
 
 
 
 
>He has asked all party members to become worker bees and turn Assam into a hive full of the golden honey.

*** Now isn't that a lovely call :-)? Unfortunately there are some tricky issues involved in the process.
When one is unaware of those issues, it is unlikely PKM will be a beekeeper producing any honey.

*** Speaking of bees, I have been doing some serious reading , finally, on the intricacies of bee-keeping, bee behavior,
etc. It is a fantastic world out there, and so much to learn. So far my two hives seem to be doing OK. Yesterday the weather turned
a tad warmer, to about 40 deg F ( 4.4 deg C), and I saw a few bees getting out of their hives to go bathroom. It is yet another
danger for bees in cold winter environments, not being able to go out to go move their bowels for extended periods of time 
( they don't like to soil their hives by going inside). If that happens their intestines get all compacted with excreta and liable
to die.

*** Just finished reading a book on some amazing new discoveries about bees, written by Thomas D. Seeley, a Cornell U. prof., called
Honey-bee Democracy. The book is touted to become a classic. If people could learn to behave like bees, we would have a far superior 
civilization.




On Jan 29, 2011, at 11:07 AM, uttam borthakur wrote:

> Today I listened to the live telecast of Sri Prafulla Kumar Mahanta's speech at AGP's Xongkolpo Divax at Khanapara. He has asked all party members to become worker bees and turn Assam into a hive full of the golden honey. So, we shall now see, the part played by labour from transition from human to bee within a short time (before election) contrary to what the bearded English industrialist Engels wrote about part played by labour
> in transition from ape to man.
> 
> 
> Uttam Kumar Borthakur



Uttam Kumar Borthakur