Bees - Honey Bee Stamps, Beekeeping, Apiculture

Poland
Beneficial Insects
April 30, 2021
This stamp set depicts Buff Mining Bee (Andrena nigroaenea), Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes), Giant Furrow Bee (Halictus quadricinctus), European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), White-lipped Blood Bee (Sphecodes albilabris), Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum).

Uruguay
MERCOSUR – Beneficial Insects
July 29, 2021
The stamp depicts bumble bee with red clover.

beehive from Czech Republic
'Beehive with motif of figure of a woman
Beehive with motif of St. Joseph with the infant Jesus
Beehive with motif of chimney sweep

A parcel "stiffener" in my latest stamp swap from US

Nice one Rod! - good that you didn't remove tapes, that made me to read the trivia on honey . Great to know that honey never goes bad - recently I found a jar of honey, shows 3 years out from the used-by date...

Here I found one which is not featured here yet.

Spain
1962

Bees, check
Honey Bee stamps or better yet stamps on honey bees, check
About beekeeping, check
About apiculture, check


Thus this illustration seems on point of the thread topic:













In the USA this was (and still is) how you often get your queens, you ordered them mail order.

Aha! great one, Parcelpostguy.
The box must be vibrated or making noise: dzzzzzzzzz dzzzzzzzzz, and "special handling" mark suggests not to shake the box too badly..?

This one is from recent "pollinators" series, and of course a bee is one of them.

GB
1 October 2020 / Brilliant Bugs: Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) / illustration: Richard Lewington



I am surprised that many variety of insects are involved in pollination. http://www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/ex...?issue=22923

I have made a "Bee Hotel" in my backgarden
Australian native bees are so tiny,
they can nest inside drink straws.

Are they that tiny as drink straws? I designed and made bee houses for an auction house years ago, using their old catalogue pages rolled (snap below ).

I wasn't sure what the activity of this stamp below, but now I know that they are harvesting honey - thanks to the Ukraine sheet on page 6!

Ukraine
2 July 1994 / Agricultural Scenes / design: Yu.Lohvyn

Cover and top part of patent specification for Nelson C. Mitchell's adjustable bee-hive patented on March 9, 1875.



1958 National Wildlife Federation seal mounted in their annual supplement. To put this in historical perspective the accompanying text mentions DDT four years before Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was published.

Mozamique postcard stationery 1985

I remember reading an article says this little mount under the tree, bottom middle of this stamp is a beehive - but cannot recall where or which URL...

Would you agree this is beehive?

GB
28 August 1961 / Centenary of Post Office Savings Bank: Growth of Savings / design: M. Goaman

Bees, designed by the Belgian artist Andre Buzin and issued by Belgium on August 30, 1997. Stamps were issued in a mini sheet inside booklet, both were posted by Penguins in page 4 of this thread:






Arrived on this cover sent from Belgium:

Moldova
International Year of Plant Health
August 8, 2020
The stamp shows a honey bee collecting pollen.

Monaco
Bee Hives on the Roof of the Museum of Stamps and Coins
June 23, 2022
The stamp depicts the beehives installed on the roof terrace of the Museum of Philately and Coinage.