Solar Eclipse

My husband and I had a great time watching the Solar Eclipse from our back yard.   Here are the pages I made from the photos I took.

I used the challenge from Challenge YOUrself 

My second page is for my challenge at Cookin' Up Challenges.  My challenge is to use only cardstock, clusters since the bees travel together in a swarm and boxes since many people make a box for bees to live in.

For my page I used a dark gray cardstock for my background and then shades of  gray for my "boxes" on my background.

A bee swarm is not dangerous! Honey bees sting in defense of their hive; when they are swarming, they are looking for a new home, not defending one they already have. They are focused on moving to their new location, and are unlikely to be distracted by passerby.

Additionally, before honey bees depart their natal hive, swarms overload on honey and nectar to provide them enough fuel to last them on their journey of finding a new home. This food also helps them to produce wax to begin building the new comb. Now, think back to the last time you ate a big meal. Did you enter a ‘food coma,’ meaning you were in a state of Zen after you finished eating? Just like the human body, bees tend to reduce their activity when swarming. 

“Bee box” is a commonly used term for the physical structure that houses a bee colony. A “colony” is a collective organism made up of a single bee family, consisting of one queen, drones and thousands of worker honeybees, while a “beehive” is the structure that houses them.

In the wild, many native bee species create their own homes, known as nests. Honeybees that are tended by humans are housed in manmade structures called beehives. The technical term used by beekeepers and bee scientists for what laymen call a “beehive” is a “hive body”.