Bee-love

[By Zachary Huang]

 

When missing you

I taste a bit of honey

It is still sweet, as usual

The promise you made

For thousands of years

 

I can hear

Your humming

Your wings dancing

With flowers faintly scented

 

Closing my eyes

I can feel you from the sky ascent

Like an angel

From God

 

My head becomes light

I don’t know if I am smitten

Or just because

my blood sugar is high

 

It should be your beauty

And your hidden stinger

Both,

Give me that shiver

 

2019.8.20, 00:51

Maybe I have been seeing Beebee Tree (Korean Dogwood) recently. There were bees in my head last night. So poem.

科	Rutacaeae芸香科
属	Tetradium吴茱萸属
种	T.  danielii朝鲜吴茱萸
俗名	贼仔树属Evodia, bee tree, beebee tree
ZBAS*:	10

These North Korean Evodia (Tetradium danielii, Rutaaceae) are native to China and now also in North America. But some states have designated it as an invasive plant. Many bee-keepers plant this tree. Is a good source of noodles. Strangely, the tree first opens male flowers, with pollen + honey, which turns into female flowers in about 10 days, and then bears fruit. The fruit is purple. Thousands of bees buzzed when the flowers bloomed, it was spectacular. Students from hometown said that Hunan also started planting this kind of plant (at least one genus), and the seeds can produce oil. In Yueyang and Minjiang, Hunan.

1. There are many bees when male flowers are in full bloom. About 7.26 to 8.1. Flowering.

2. Bees collect honey as they collect powder

3. You can see the pollen in the pollen basket.

4. At about 8.13, it became a female flower.

5. You see the ovary inside the petals, the stigma above

6. Now bees can only concentrate on collecting nectar.