Queen's Bees Are Told She Is Dead and King Charles Is Their New Master

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https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/queens-bees-are-told-shes-dead-king-charles-is-new-master-3333118

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[andy1867]

I hope he "phrased" it properly...your problem with a beehive is...If the queen BEE dies, the worker bees start building new chambers in the hive and they have to find a NEW queen BEE!!
now if yer "Royal keeper of bees"...simply tipped up and said
"The queens died"
be bloody turmoil within the hive!
The actual QUEEN BEE..will be sorta sat in her chamber thinkin' "What the bloody hell is going on"...A worker bee will see her and think its a ghost..and the honey will turn to crap!!!

[mpriestnall]

Bees will probably stay. I'm sure Charles speaks their language for one thing.

[Ms Diddles]

I wonder if anyone has broken it to the swans yet.

[andy1867]

I wonder if anyone has broken it to the swans yet.

Presume they PENned summat...along with a Cygneture

[Ms Diddles]

Presume they PENned summat...along with a Cygneture

As long as they kept them informed and didn't remain mute!!

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I don’t know if his is a joke but…

[mpriestnall]

I don’t know if his is a joke but…

Good find. A joke surely?

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Something ironic about the death of a Protestant monarch results in us 'going Catholic '...

[Pcdunn]

I learned about the custom of "telling the bees" in a book by Rudyard Kipling called "Puck of Pook's Hill". It was such a quaint, sentimental custom that it has stuck with me forever.

[mpriestnall]

I learned about the custom of "telling the bees" in a book by Rudyard Kipling called "Puck of Pook's Hill". It was such a quaint, sentimental custom that it has stuck with me forever.

Quaint and sentimental is a nice way of putting it. Your post made want to look further into it.

Some more info here for those whose interested:

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/the-adorable-custom-of-telling-bees.html

https://daily.jstor.org/telling-the-bees/

[Pcdunn]

Thanks for the article links; they were very interesting!

Here's "The Bee-Boy's Song" by Kipling, published in 1922.

https://www.bartleby.com/364/337.html

The notion of bees needing to know things is very cool.

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An interesting and funny video from a mortician explaining the tradition. This woman has a very strange sense of humor (not surprising) and her videos are very informative with regards to all things death. Check them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfcjeo_J7w

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Someone wrote, it’s an opportunity for the nation to come together

[John Savage]

Should we not all wait until Wednesday?