[Assam] This reminds me of your bees Chandan Da

[Manoj Das]

That's some Micro\Nano thinking :)

On 1/31/11, uttam borthakur <uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> 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
>
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