Butterfly Tattoos for Women

  Delicate and also fragile as they are, these beautiful creatures are the emblems for fashion statement these days that probably the main reason why tattoo artists thought of having this as a tattoo design. Mariah Carey is recognized for this symbol. She has got the butterfly symbol in almost all of her things. She has a butterfly ring, pendant, jewelry, pen, notebook, and she even recorded a song named butterfly. It's maybe the combination of colors that they posses or just the fact that they are so adorable. I actually don't care, what amazes me is that butterflies are really lovely that they manage to get in to the tattoo world. Butterfly designs sells like hotcakes especially to women tattoo fanatics.Tattoos which have butterfly designs in it will definitely make women get all over it and would not even think twice of having it. However, they will find it difficult to choose when given various butterfly designs.

  So let me offer the most searched for butterfly designs to help you decide.Butterfly Designs and their meaningsTribal Butterfly Body Art : these types of models are motivated through local tribes mostly coming from Ireland and Scotland as well as tribes coming from Borneo who've made butterfly tattoos their lucky bracelets.Butterfly Fairy Designs -- since they have wings such as the butterflies, fairies are usually associated with them, exactly why tattoo designers attended on top of this kind of style. Butterfly Celtic Tattoos - mostly sported by people who had life changing moments. Celts believed that butterflies represents rebirth as well as restoration because of it's alteration from an ugly caterpillar with a gorgeous creature.These types of butterfly tattoo designs are available in black and white as well as the multicolored colored types. Favorite places on the human body to get tattooed on are on the arm, neck, and lower back.

  I think it's a great idea to get a butterfly tattoo if you would like yours to be distinctive and unique. It has different colors which can make it possible for you to play your imaginations with colors and blend them together. It can also be an original way to express your personality. It is like playing with fashion and art. Butterfly body art are not only seen designed for women's tattoos but it can be a tattoo design for guys too! Some consider risks of this inked around the back of their necks although I wouldn't actually advise that due to the fact that butterfly tattoos needs a large amount of colors (if you choose to get the excellent ones) and it is way painful on that part. No matter what design you want to have, I'm sure that it will turn out superbly, that is if you get a really good style along with a really good tattoo artist.

Butterflies In The Bedroom

  Kids and nature. Kids seem to love most things that nature throws at them. And that includes little bugs running around the house and flying in the windows. When I was a kid I loved nature. And butterflies were part of that love. Along with my sisters and brother we caught caterpillars. Put them in a box to watch them hatch into butterflies.

  Our favorites were the Monarch butterflies as they were the most beautiful.Back in those days, when I was a kid, we had to actually go out and look for caterpillars and butterflies, the pet shops never stocked them. Now the modern generation have it so easy, they can buy them on the internet and the postman delivers them. None of this walking around the park looking for the trees the butterflies like so you can get the caterpillars.

  Also we had our butterflies in a shoebox with a few holes in the lid and sides to give them some air. Now you can buy a readymade butterfly enclosure like a big butterfly net that keeps your butterflies safe and sound. The internet has changed life as we know it. But kids are still the same, they are still fascinated by what nature can do. And nothing is more fascinating that watching a caterpillar turn into a butterfly.On the market there are two main butterfly habitats, both made by the same place. The best habitat and also the most expensive is the "Butterfly Pavilion." Here you order10 caterpillars and the home guarantees six to be perfect specimens. Most customers got all 10 alive through the post therefore ending up with 10 butterflies. The pavilion is around 2 foot high so it is quite large and you can either hang it up or put it on a table or the floor.

  It is made from quite heavy see through cloth mesh. It is actually an amazingly simple design, wire support in a cylinder shape so it can either hang up or stand up, and it is complete with zippered entry so you can get in and out. You also receive a very informative booklet that contains lots of butterfly facts. As well as instructions on how to put it all together and how to keep your caterpillars and butterflies alive.First you buy the butterfly pavilion then you have to order the caterpillars. The caterpillars are pretty hardy so most survive the trip by US mail. They come in two cups complete with food. Read the instructions before opening these cups.

  The caterpillars are supposed to stay in the cups so they can turn into chrysalides by hanging from the top of the cup.Everything is supplied but you have to supply your own sugar water, which somehow manages to drip all over the place and cause a mess. But people being people they love to add food so most drop in apple slices or run around outside looking for leaves to feed the caterpillars which grow amazing fast. After you receive the caterpillars they take about a week to grow big enough to pupate into chrysalis. Then the waiting game starts again while you wait for the butterflies to hatch. That takes about a week to 10 days. You now have a pavilion full of butterflies. The instructions recommend you let them go free as long as the weather is over 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Because of this weather thing some people have kept their butterflies and have ended up with 2 or 3 generations in the one pavilion. So you can keep using the pavilion but you have to find your own food.

  It is amazing what people can dream up nowadays. In my day were messing around with shoeboxes and it never occurred to anybody to make up a little butterfly cage like what you can buy nowadays. Nature has come a long way since I was a kid. It also bring out a smaller version called the Butterfly Garden which is about half the size of the Pavilion and comes with only six caterpillars. Everything else is basically the same right down to the instruction manual.Nature will always fascinate children so it is these little educational toys that can make a difference in how we bring up our children and how much they will learn. As the cities have gotten bigger nature usually comes to us on the TV but these new generation nature toys are a welcome addition to our homes.

Attracting Butterflies Through Landscaping

  Butterflies are amongst the most beautiful creatures in the world. So bright of hue, so beautiful and such a delight to watch. But today a wide variety or species of butterflies has become extinct because there is a threat to their living space and their food supply by human beings.Making a butterfly garden is one way to protect and increase their numbers. Butterfly garden landscaping is a method by which plants are grown to attract butterflies. These are those plants that attract different varieties of butterflies. If the landscaping is done properly it can prove to be a paradise for butterflies and insect wildlife.In order to start with butterfly garden landscaping one must first find a sunny spot present in the garden. Butterflies require the heat of the sun to strengthen their wing muscles to fly efficiently. Usually one can see butterflies stretching their wings out on a sunny day, warming up to fly.

  It is very essential to put the garden up in an area where strong winds do not blow. Butterflies avoid areas with strong winds because they can't fly too well.The other thing to be kept in mind while landscaping a butterfly garden is to choose the right plants. There are four very important factors that need to be given heed to. The first thing is that the plants and the flowers that they bear must be scented and brightly colored. Butterflies get attracted to fragrances and bright colors.The second important thing is that the plants must produce enough nectar since a butterfly's staple food is nectar. Plants that produce nectar are easy to grow nowadays. Plant as many varieties of nectar producing flowers as possible as this helps attract butterflies belonging to a variety of species and certain species are very particular about the nectar that they consume.The third thing to be kept in mind is to choose plants that flower and bloom during different seasons, as this will help in keeping the garden colorful throughout the year and help to attract butterflies. This also ensures a constant supply of nectar for the various species of butterflies.

  Lastly, the garden must also have a lot of host plants that will help the butterflies to lay eggs on. Leafy plants are considered to be the best host plants as they produce shelter and ample food and nourishment for the larvae and the caterpillars.Providing an area that has a rocky ledge is a very good idea and is very effective in the landscaping of a butterfly garden. Butterflies usually rest on rocks to laze in the sun.It is not advisable to use pesticides or insecticides in the garden, as these chemicals will prove toxic for the butterflies and this will hamper the ideal environment for them.Plant plants that are native to the place as these plants will naturally develop a resistance to disease and pests that are common, there by reducing the need to use pesticides. Introduce creatures like ants, earthworms or beetles. These insects will help in eating up other insects that live on flowers. Allow nature to take its own course.If the landscaping of a butterfly garden is done effectively, the gardener will be rewarded with the view of these beautiful and lovely creatures. But the most important fact is that these creatures will be given a chance to grow and survive and enjoy their own life.

Why bee extermination is not a solution

  Most people's knee-jerk reaction is bee extermination when their homes are invaded by a swarm of bees. This generally negative reaction towards bees appears a product of some misperceptions fostered in the mass media, particular those in thriller movies depicting bees as villains out to decimate one town or another. While it is true that people and bees, in general, do not make for an ideal mix, these insects bring more benefits than damage to humans.Bees are useful to man in helping the preservation of the ecological balance. Most importantly, they pollinate flowers of food crops that are estimated to consist of one-third of our food supply.

  With the extinction threat on certain species of bees, some plant species will be likewise be threatened with extinction, like the case of the yellow-faced Hawaiian bee which is important in the pollination of plants in the Hawaii islands.Some bee species, particularly the European variety, are also direct food sources with the honey that they produce. Good for the health, honey is not the only benefit that could be directly obtained from bees. These useful insects also produce beeswax, where thousands of eggs of a colony's queen bee are deposited for hatching and where honey is stored in each egg chamber for the bee larvae's nourishment. The beeswax deposits from bee colonies are collected for use in cosmetics and in the pharmaceuticals industry. Beeswax can also be used as a raw material for candles.With the many benefits that bees bring, bee extermination is clearly not the solution if these insects stray into homes or populated areas. Extermination, in the first place, usually entails the use of pesticides which could do collateral damage to homes in particular and the environment in general.

  What then is the best approach when a colony of bees settles into a home or within a homeowners' property? One immediate measure is to immediately isolate the bees' invaded area if possible, and leave the insects alone and ensure that they are not antagonized.Then the homeowner or caretaker can call some professional beekeepers or commercial outfits specializing in bee rescue and removal. Many of these professional help are listed in the phone directory or maintain websites with their direct phone lines to facilitate easy and instant communication. The ideal bee professional rescuers to call are those who employ natural techniques in their trade. They are those who may use non-toxic smoke but never pesticides as it has been mentioned earlier, bee extermination is not the solution. What these guys usually do is relocate the bees to a habitat more appropriate for these insects, such as a fruit orchard or forests away from human habitation. Of course, it would be virtually impossible for these bee rescuers to capture the bees one by one. These professionals in bee rescue usually trap the queen and some of her colony workers in a box with holes. The other members of the bee colony follow inside the box after some time and the whole gang is then moved to an area where they are unlikely to be a disturbance but a boon to humans.

Solving The Mystery Of The Disappearing Honey Bee 02

  New pesticides are another possible explanation for Colony Collapse Disorder. A new class of insecticides, called neonicotinoids, have been found to be highly toxic to various insects, including bees. In fact, research has found that the level of the insecticide found in pollen has had a delirious effect on honeybees. A team of scientists led by the National Institute of Beekeeping in Bologna, Italy, found that polluted pollen may be one of the main causes of honeybee colony collapse. Bees fed with 500 or 1 000 ppb (parts per billion) of insecticide in sucrose solutions failed to return to the hive and disappeared altogether, while bees that had imbibed 100 ppb solutions were delayed by twenty four hours in their return. Signs of colony collapse disorder were first reported in the United States in 2004, the same year American beekeepers started importing bees from Australia. It has subsequently been discovered by Hebrew University researchers that these Australian bees were carrying a virus.

  The virus identified in the otherwise healthy Australian bees has been named Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) after the researchers responsible for the discovery. Although worker bees in Colony Collapse Disorder vanish, bees infected with the IAPV virus die close to the hive. Scientists used genetic analyses of bees collected over the past three years and found that IAPV was present in bees that had come from Colony Collapse Disorder bee hives 96 percent of the time. Scientific research continues concerning the disappearing honey bee and IAPV.According to the United States Department of Agriculture, "The number of managed honey bee colonies has dropped from 5 million in the 1940s to only 2.5 million today. At the same time, the need for bee hives to supply pollination services has continued to climb.

  This means honey bee colonies are trucked farther and more often than ever before". Consider that the beekeeper of today, who is involved in crop pollination, must transport their bee colonies from one state to another several times each season. Therefore, tens of billions of bees are transported across the United States, in the backs of trucks, to pollinate crops every year. Researchers have suggested that this process is putting a high, abnormal level of stress on bees. This frequent change of hive location is known to stress and weaken bee colonies and it increases the threat of parasites and diseases among bees used in commercial pollination elsewhere in the country.It should be noted that nobody in the organic beekeeping world is reporting Colony Collapse Disorder as a problem.

  Most people think beekeeping is all natural, but in commercial operations the bees are used for pollinating profit without much government oversight. So, it may be safe to assume that the current process of commercial beekeeping for industrial agriculture may well be creating the conditions of stress necessary for CCD to occur. Mites, pesticides, virus, and stress are the four areas of primary focus among researchers trying to solve the mystery of the disappearing honey bee. It is fast becoming a scientific race against time to find a solution to a problem that threatens United States agriculture and the national and international food supply. Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees were to disappear, man would follow only a few years later. Indeed, researchers need to find a solution to this worldwide bee problem very soon to insure that his theory is not put to a test.

Permanently Remove Bees From Your Home

  On a Summer day I was enjoying my deck at my residence when I noticed some trouble buzzing around a support post. No, it couldn't be. Yes, it is. Bees! Bees are living in the cornice of my patio and I had no idea until now. I am very aware of everything that happens at my home and I was very amazed to learn that I had a colossal bee infestation on the rear of my residence.This bee nest is the worst kind because it cannot be seen. Bees are moving in and out through a crack between the brick and the molding and have made a nest in a very well protected area. Since the nest is not visible, I have no idea what size of bee infestation that I have.At first, I noticed a ginormous swarm of bees from the time of lunch to mid evening. A swarm so huge that I cant sit outside anymore from fear of getting a bee sting. I don't even know what kind of bee has infested my home. I go to my computer and search for bee information. What I find is pretty good. I have honey bees.

  This type of bee is not the aggressive Africanized bee that has come to North America in recent years.Secondly, I searched for bee keepers, exterminators, animal services and fire department. Far from expected, no one will bother with bees except bee keepers. Keepers are not ultra expensive neither cheap. Every price I was given seemed unfairly high. Many I contacted didn't return my calls or email. With my experience unfolding rapidly, I decided to buy bee killer and spray it in the hole of the nest at night when the bees are not active. Not much good came from the bug spray.After using several containers of spray, I begun to understand that I have a serious problem and unless I forfeit much money, I can't convince anyone to help me. Public services even sighed in hopelessness and said to call a bee specialist. I applied borax powder and spread it at the opening of the bee hive, but that didn't work either.Next, I initiated a serious search on the web for a solution. There should be something I can do without having to spend an unacceptable amount of money to clean my house of a pest that numbers in the thousands. Each one with a little stinger on it. After much time of internet searching and trying other insignificant solutions, I found something that I never thought about.A bug zapper is the last idea I would expect to kill a bee colony. I read several reviews and saw favorable feedback. The best part is that I didn't need to get one. I already had a bug zapper.

 I over looked it a few days prior when I was looking for a bee solution. I placed the electronic bug killing fryer next to the bee hive passage and plugged it in. Immediately, I see smoke, sparks and hear frying sounds. Bees are dying.After several days of this [method|application|favorable discovery}, I quickly realized that I have too many bees that I need something in symphony or the extermination could take too long time. From previous internet browsing, I remembered seeing videos of bee professionals using vacuum cleaners to collect problem bees. I sprang to get my garage vacuum cleaner and mounted the hose up the brick support positioning the end at the bee hive opening. I plugged in the vacuum cleaner and the results were fantastic. A few hours of vacuum cleaner use far exceeded the bug zapper. I highly recommend using the two methods together to fight a serious infestion which is what I had. All other recommendations I found applauds removing the bee combs once the bees are not active. I will try my luck and not remove the hive but I will fill the bee hive holes with insulation to prevent more bees entering the eve area of my house to make another hive.I am compelled to announce this information with the rest of the free world because I think it is a pity that home owners cant get help with this kind problem without wasting lots of money. The methods I listed above do work, but be careful as to not receive bee stings.

How Do Beekeepers Collect Bee Pollen

  Although beekeepers generate the majority of their income from sales of honey, most supplement this income with alternative bee-connected activities. The sale of bee byproducts like bee pollen is one method of supplementing income. It's marketed as a high-price health food product, and can command sensible costs, whether the beekeeper sells the pollen as unbranded raw granules at his own native facility, through native grocers and health food retailers in his community, or to dealers who process the bee pollen into capsules or alternative branded health food merchandise, distributing the capsules nationally or globally.

  Bees, of course, have a reason for collecting pollen, and beekeepers who sell pollen must be positive to gather the pollen without disrupting the life of their hive. Bee pollen is the male seed of flowering plants, needed for plant fertilization. Some pollen is air borne, however the pollen that bees collect comes from a selection of plant blossoms. Bees collect pollen to feed to their young back at the hive, but a lot of of the pollen is scraped off their legs as they fly from blossom to blossom, therefore accomplishing the crucial task of pollination.Beekeepers, then, should watch out to not "steal" an excessive amount of pollen from the employee bees who collect it; the bee larvae back at the hive, once all, should be fed thus that the bee colony will continue to thrive. Beekeepers thus devise a drawer in the underside of the hive called a "pollen trap." These drawers slide in and out and have a wire mesh bottom, allowing for full air circulation.

  A replacement entryway to the hive is then cut out, such that worker bees exiting and getting into the hive must tolerate the pollen entice first. If the bees are aware of using another entryway, that older manner is closed off, and it might take some weeks for the bees to find out the new route.As bees fly through the pollen trap, some pollen naturally falls off their legs, falling onto the wire mesh at the bottom of the trap. Most pollen traps are designed such that bees should then taste a slim house to urge to the brood box, the half of the hive where larvae are raised. Passing through this slim space, about one-third of the pollen on their legs will disregard onto the wire mesh.Although collecting bee pollen in a very accountable manner does not jeopardize the nutritional needs of the colony's larvae, worker bees could have to work a small amount harder to produce food, as they are losing a third of their collected pollen with every trip.

  Bee pollen traps work best with sturdy, healthy hives, with an abundance of worker bees.It's important for beekeepers to collect pollen from the traps every single day. its raw form is an extraordinarily perishable product. It desires to be refrigerated immediately once collection, and will conjointly be frozen for long-term storage. Some beekeepers dehydrate bee pollen at their own facilities before selling it to the general public; dehydration has no negative effects on the nutritional worth of bee pollen. Dehydrated bee pollen does not need refrigeration, however if you purchase raw granules from your native beekeeper, be certain to refrigerate the granules at home and consume them comparatively quickly; or, freeze some yourself if you purchase a lot of than you'll be able to use within the short term.