The Hive and the Honey Bee, by LL Langstroth, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Let's once again be lulled to sleep by the hum of beautiful, busy bees, learn all about the workings of the queen bee, and hear every permutation of the word "fecund" possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some |
| 0:17.2 | sleep. |
| 0:19.4 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to two new members of our |
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| 1:23.0 | Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:28.0 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:31.0 | Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. Tonight we're returning to a work written by a man known |
| 1:49.8 | as the father of American beekeeping. The hive and the the |
| 1:54.0 | Hive and the Honeybee, a beekeeper's manual by Reverend L. L. L. Langstrath. |
| 2:01.0 | First published in 1853 by Hopkins Bridgman and Company, Northampton, Massachusetts. |
| 2:10.0 | Let's pick up right where we left off. |
| 2:15.0 | Chapter 3. The Queen or Mother Bee, the drones and the workers, with various highly important facts in their natural history. |
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