Bzzzzz! In the big podcast today, we're following a beekeeper on his rounds. Learn all the beekeeping vocab you didn't know you were dying to know in Spanish, in this lesson on apiculture.
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La pregunta del día es: ¿Te gusta la miel y como la comes?
A mi me gusta mucho la miel, cuando me duele la garganta tomo miel con limón. También me gusta la miel con yogur. ¡Que rico! Dicen que si tomas una cucharada de miel en la mañana, te da mucha energía.
Do you like honey and how do you eat it?
I really like honey, when I have a sore throat I drink honey with lime. I also like it with yogurt. Yum! They say that if you have a spoon of honey in the morning it gives you a lot of energy.
Que quiero decir:
I eat honey only rarely. I don't like it much. I liked it more when I was a kid.
Hola Spanishpod team-Thank you for this topic! I have been a bee keeper for 2 years and I really enjoy it. Lily, you are correct about the types of bees in the hive. The queen's job is to lay eggs...the worker bees are also female and they do all the work and some of the jobs are very interesting. Besides collecting pollen, the hive has "guard bees" who guard the entrance to the hive and will only let in members of the hive...however, if a stranger shows up with pollen on her legs, she will be let in. Another job they have is "undertaker bees". The undertaker bees clean out the dead bees from the hive and move them far from the entrance. I have a bee graveyard near my front door and the hive is in the back. there are so many interesting facts about bees including how they communicate with each other to expalin where the flowers are...The drones are the males and they don't do much besides hang around and eat. A new queen will take a maiden flight and emit a hormone to attract drones to mate with her. The drones die after mating...poor things!
One funny story was when my friend brought an observation hive to a pre school for show & tell. The kids had a lot of good questions, but his all time favorite was when one of the children wanted to know if the queen had a crown!!
Thanks and keep up the good work!
PS honey bees are very gentle!
mztish, muy interesante tu historia sobre las abejas. No me gusta mucho la miel; de vez en cuando la pongo en una taza de té cuando estoy resfriado.
una media abeja, filosoficamente deba, ipso facto, media no sea
pero puede, un abeja, se dice ser o no ser un abeja entero
si media de la abeja no sea debido a una lesión anciana
denied :-( be and bee doint match in spanish. however, is it just me or is there something deliciously esoteric about wordplay that only works in translation.
Mi esposo hacía apicultura en nuestro jardine durante muchos años. Desafortunadamente tuvo que terminar ese pasatiempos porque empezó la epoca de los infermidades de las abejas. El no podia maintenarse con todos los medicamentes que se nececitaban las abejas. No era divertido nada mas para el.
A mi, es una lastima que no pueda dar nuestra miel como regalos nada mas.
Para celebrar el nuevo año en las culturas Judeos, se hace un pastel de miel. Que gusto es!
mztish
Entonces son las abejas hembras las que hacen todo el trabajo! Increíble, no solo la reina, pero las demás son las que organizan todo el panal.
Las abejas que son las que cuidan, las que hacen guardias esas son hembras o machos?
nancynann
Que lastima que no pudo seguir con su hobby. La miel es muy buena para la salud. Me hubiera gustado probar el pastel de miel.
Hola Lili
Si las hembras hacen TODO-ellas son las guardias tambien! Los machos solo comen y si tienen suerte (mas o menos) se parean...y despues se mueren!
ps: me gusta mucho tu foto!!
¿qué forma del verbo es "picasen" ?
en la sección de expansion se dice "Te doy esta crema por si te picasen"
no debería ser: ¿"Te doy esta crema por si te picen" ?
gracias!
kikuyu
es el imperferfcto de subjuntivo(v2)
i give you this cream for if they may bite
the biting is only potential not a sure thing
si supieras que las abejas iban a picarte deberías ponerte ropa gorda y olvidarte de la crema
donperigo,
Gracias, siempre me confunde cuando una frase en el presente refiere al pasado o en este caso algo que "pudiera ser"
thanks, I often get confused when a sentence is spoken in the present tense but refers to something in the past or in this particular case something that could be.
I also have to admit that I often forget to conjugate that alternate form of the imperfect subjunctive in my head, because I'm a bit lazy.