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What's It Like to Be a Honeybee? (Ep. 3)
By Nivien Saleh / May 10, 2020 February 15, 2021
What an amazing little creature the honeybee is. It provides us with essential goods and services – honey, wax, and pollination – and is even more social than we humans are.
Curious to find out how a honeybee society runs itself, I reached out to Carlisle Vandervoort, a movie producer and beekeeper from Houston's Heights neighborhood. Carlisle told me about the delights of beekeeping, mile-high drone comets, queen bee servitude, and the profound gratitude these small insects inspire.
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Houston and Nature Episode 03, "What's It Like to Be a Honeybee?" Episode Transcript
Nivien Saleh
How much fun is the life of a honeybee?
Hi, I am Nivien Saleh with Houston and Nature. Today's show is about the European honeybee apis mellifera. I suspect you have eaten honey before.
In that case you have been in intimate contact with the honeybee and its digestive juices. In this episode we'll take a look at the bee , and if you ask me, it is just fascinating.
My guest is Carlisle Vandervoort, a beekeeper from the Heights in Houston. You may have seen a movie she recently produced - on Molly Ivins, the iconic party-hard and tell-it-like-it-is journalist from Houston who achieved national fame in the 1980s and 1990s.
I got to ask Carlisle all my bee questions, and she gave me splendid answers, which I'm sharing with you. If you enjoy them, please tell a friend about this podcast.
Hi Carlisle, you're known for producing the award winning movie, 'Raise Hell, The Life and Times of Molly Ivins.' But you also do beekeeping.
The Joy of Honeybee Beekeeping
Carlisle Vandervoort
Beekeeping is one of those things that keeps me grounded in the world and brings me incredible joy and delight. And making a documentary is a long, laborious process. Being able to go out and see my bees and be with my bees would certainly revive my occasional flagging spirits around the film.
So in a way, you could say your honeybees helped you produce the movie by by supporting you emotionally.
My honeybees help me do everything because they're always supporting me emotionally.
How many honeybees did you have at the time of the movie?
The film was seven years in the making, at various points, I was managing 12 hives to three hives to five hives. I had a beekeeping partner for our little hobby business, Kevin Topek, and I learned much about my beekeeping from him. We would manage beehives for people. So let's say that you wanted to have a hive, but you weren't ready to tackle it. So Kevin and I would manage your beehive for you. We would put the bees in. We would be doing hive checks and then it would come time to process the honey. We would take out the frames and we would bring them to my art studio. And we would process the honey there and then bring it back to you.
So you've been in beekeeping for a long time. You've done it professionally. When did you get started?
I think maybe 10 or 12 years ago I started keeping bees. When I was graduated from art school out in California and got my graduate degree, I was invited to Portland, Oregon, to be on a show. And so the art show's theme was landscape. And it was held in this really beautiful old abandoned tire factory. I'd heard rumored that there was an artist that had done a project with beehives and I was really intrigued by that. So I found her and was really intrigued with her project. She put a hive in on a table and she had skirted the hive. So imagine a funnel, an upside down funnel. The skinny part was going out to the vent in the top of the room. She put a camera in, and a mike underneath the tenting. You could sit outside of the tent and watch the video and listen to what was going on. And I just sat down and I went into a really deep meditation. When I came out of that meditation, I literally felt my heart burst open and this huge smile crossed my face, and I heard internally, "You're going to have bees." So that was when I was 40. And I got bees, I think, when I was about 52.
You heard the voice that you will have bees at 40 and then you waited 12 years to do it.
Well, what happened was I moved back to Houston and I lived in an apartment, continued to make art, bought a piece of property in the Heights and I built a house, and I knew it was time to start keeping bees then. So I called up this guy that I wanted to bid on doing my permaculture garden.
Kevin ....
Kevin. So we connected that way. And then I mentioned to him, I wanted to start keeping bees, and his whole face lit up. He said, "Listen, I used to keep bees in the 80s. I learned from my old Italian neighbor down the street, and I would love to start keeping bees. Let's give your garden a couple of years to grow and settle. And then if you still want to do it, call me, and we'll connect." And that's what happened. Two years passed. I called him and I said, I'm ready to go.
Kevin Topek specializes in permaculture. I imagine that he helped you prepare your garden by telling you what plants to plant.
Yes, absolutely. He planted my garden. It was fantastic. We kept some things that were here and we just did a lot of work to build the soil so things could grow.
And then you had hives. Tell me about that experience.
I invited friends to come join me. So we were in my art studio. There were a variety of people from business people to art curators and kids. Some were really openhearted. And others were somewhat jaded. But to a person, I watched them take a serrated knife, and slice off the top roof of the of the frame packed full of honey and help run the spinner, which is what throws the honey out. And I watched them. They got more and more joyful. They became little kids and they were eating the honey and they were tasting the pollen and they we re getting so excited. As an artist, I always wanted my work to be able to shift people from the mundane to the sublime, even if it was just for two or three minutes. The moment I watched these people harvest honey, I went, "OK, this is it. Here is my service to the world."
The Honeybee Queen and the Drone Comet
The honeycomb your friends were spinning is THE central building block of the beehive. A hive is a dark cavity with a small entrance, and if you were to open this cavity you'd find combs hanging down vertically. Each comb consists of hundreds of hexagonal cells that the bees fill with food – like honey – or brood, which are their eggs.
And what's cool is that bees build the comb using the wax that comes out of their glands. It's the same as if a human started to sweat putty and used that that to build a pantry or a nursery for a baby. That's pretty cool!
What's also cool is that a beehive is one humongous family. There can be up to 80,000 family members. The queen is the mother of them all. Her male offspring are the drones, and her female offspring are the worker bees.
Which brings me to a question: If all bees in the hive come from the queen, where does the queen come from?
The worker bees. If the bees decide that a new queen needs to be born, they will pick several regular worker bee cells and start extra feeding it. And it starts growing and it looks like a peanut shell. the first queen out of there .... is the queen. And she goes around to the other peanut shells. if there's developing queens in there she stings them through the shell.
She kills the other nascent queens. And then what happens?
She's fed a little bit more. She's got a couple more days. Right. And then she takes her nuptial flight to the DCA. The DCA is the "drone congregating area." That is what it's known as, the DCA. It could be half a mile up in the atmosphere. She emits her pheromones. And so drones then know to fly to her. While she's up in the DCA, she has her way with 12 to 20 drones.
What I've read is that when she goes on that flight, she has sex with multiple drones and the sperm of these drones then get deposited in a special bladder.
And she stores them there for the rest of her life. And she draws on the sperm in that bladder as she lays eggs, as she needs the sperm.
Correct. Then she returns to the hive. She settles in and she starts laying eggs and she never leaves. The queen, she can lay up to more than fifteen hundred eggs a day.
That is enormous.
Is that not amazing? The queen inspects the cells that she's going to lay in for cleanliness and the size. And if she finds it acceptable, she places a minuscule spurt of glue that she makes on the bottom. And then she deposits an egg into it that stands straight up. And then the nurse bees then feed the egg royal jelly for three days.
My understanding is that the queen is aided by the nurse bees into putting her body into the egg chamber. So she cannot she cannot really lay the egg all by herself. They help her navigate into the cell. Is that correct?
They do. She has attendants that clean her and groom her and feed her and direct her. Absolutely.
OK, so she lays her eggs.
She lays her eggs. That's all she does until she dies. Queens ....they can live about five years, but after a couple of years, the egg laying drops off significantly. Sometimes beekeepers decide that they're going to put a new queen in if they feel like they're not getting enough honey production, and so they will go in and they'll find the queen and they'll take her out and kill her and they'll put in a new queen.
When a queen lays an egg that has been fertilized by a sperm she got from the DCA, it will produce a female bee – either a worker or a queen bee. When she lays an egg that has not been fertilized, it will produce a male bee or drone. How does the queen decide what kind of egg to lay?
It's the nurse bees who are telling her: "Lay a fertilized egg, lay an unfertilized egg. We need more drones. We have enough drones." When the order has been put in from the nurse bees, then she can make that decision and she can do the chemistry within her own body.
That's fascinating, isn't it? She has this bladder of sperm that she can use to fertilize eggs, but she uses them only when she is told by the nurse bees...
... to use it.
They Honeybee Drone
And that then influences the amount of drones versus worker bees that are in the hive.
Yes. Maybe 10 percent of the bees in a hive are drone bees. The queen starts laying drone eggs in the spring and into the summer. The drone's existence is focused on the procreative. The drone may go and visit several DCA areas per day because it's a certain season, right? And so he flies for about a half hour. And if he hasn't found one, he'll fly back to the hive, he'll refuel, he'll rest, and he'll go back out again.
And then they get shooed out. They get exited, ushered out of the hive by the workers when there's illness or when there's a nectar or food shortage and also at the onset of winter, because they eat more and they take up more room because they're bigger. And in winter, there is less food in the pantry, basically.
And the ultimate interest of the bees is the survival of the hive. So whatever it takes to make the hive survive, they will do.
I'm learning something really interesting and new here. I thought drones just hang out at the hive and eat and eat and eat. And at some point, they head out and look for a queen. But what you're saying is they do that every single day.
There's a period that they do that. Don't forget, the virgin queen is up there in the air spraying pheromones. And bees have the best sense of smell of all the living creatures. So they smell that. That's when they go off and start looking for the DCAs. The drone will then zero in on the virgin queen, her pheromone, they zero in on that. It's called a drones comet. Because there might be 25,000 drones. And they surround the queen. And about 12 to 20 drones manage to mate with the queen and then they die. What happens is the drone grasps her with his claspers from behind. He has an endophallus. So that's on the outside. So he inverts that and he ejaculates into her. She carries him higher, higher, higher towards the sun. And once he ejaculates, he then ruptures himself and he falls to the ground. But the phallus is still in her pumping semen into her. And then what happens is the next drone, mounts her. And he unhooks the previous drone's phallus. And the process repeats.
That is one of the things that I've found just so fascinating. So you have these male bees, the drones, that look for the queen bee, and then they mate with her and then they die. You would think, who would ever do that? Why would you want to mate with somebody just to die afterwards? And yet it happens. Somehow the survival of the hive, which can go to the detriment of the individuals in the hive, is built into their tiny little brains and it drives them.
I'm not sure there are individuals in the hive. There's a beautiful German beekeeper named Michael Thiele, and he talks of ... it's a German concept of the Bien - B-I-E-N - and it's the superorganism of each hive. It's just this collective consciousness. They're not individual egos in a hive fighting to be a nurse bee or one of the queen's attendant or.... Well, I'm a drone, but I don't want to die early, so I'm not going to go, mate. It's not like that. It's really an amazing thing.
Through observation it's been suggested that the hive is a happier and more productive hive when the drones are around. Their duties, besides impregnating the queen, are: they act as guards. They're brood warmers - they hang out in the nursery and because the bodies are bigger, they're warmer and they can cool the hive also because their bodies are bigger. they can flap their wings and start cooling the hive down internally.
I come from Germany, as you know, where honeybees are much more iconic than they are here in the United States. In the United States, I believe, it's more the bumblebee that everybody associates with a bee. But in Germany, it's the honeybee. And the drone has a reputation of being just lazy and they just consume honey and aren't really very useful other than spreading the seed, which in itself is an important function. Right. But what you're saying is, there's really a lot more to the drones.
Absolutely. That idea that the drones take up space, eat all the honey and just lay around is is an old idea in beekeeping. And I do need to say that my style of beekeeping is a pesticide free .... I keep bees not for honey production, but as pollinators. So, honey is not really the main thing why I'm interested in keeping bees. Plus they're magnificent creatures. In the beekeeping circles that I hang out in, we all view the drones as having their own ... service. They're doing a variety of services within the hive.
Okay, good! So we have the mechanics of a male bee, the life of a queen bee...
Worker bees - should talk a little bit about that?
The Worker Bee
Well. Worker bees... They're definitely the workhorse of the beehive and they have various jobs as they mature, get older. So they're nurse bees. Then they become field bees. They're guard bees. They create cells for the brood chamber. You know, they might be making the cells from the wax from their bodies. They also create the cells to store honey in and pollen in. Some are queen attendants. So. There are many, many jobs, and they take care of the colony as a collective, they're the driving force behind that, the life of the hive. They make decisions collectively and they will decide as a body of worker bees. They decide to either support, supersede or depose the queen, swarm, abscond or build drones cells.
We have this notion of a bee hive being run by a queen. In popular parlance, you often hear, oh, she's a queen bee, right? Like, she's so high and mighty and on such a high horse, but really in a bee hive, the queen is not the kind of queen that we imagine a queen to be. The decisions are not made by her. They are made by the workers. And when I read this, it overthrew a lot of these conceptions that I had in my head. In a way, that's a really valuable exercise. You know, every once in a while to evaluate your assumptions and realize that in many ways you've been wrong.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I had all those preconceptions, all those same conceptions that you did. So my mind is just getting blown and continues to be amazed by what I learn about them. Bees, they have a really complex way of communicating. They communicate through touching each other, feeding each other, grooming each other, and then the comb in the hive .... If you think of the comb in the hive as a drum skin, then the bees, they touch it. They walk on it. They communicate through it. So the bees at the far end of the hive can know what's going on all through the hive by just the vibrations that are being laid into the comb itself.
Isn't that awesome? That that was really mind blowing to me.
How do worker bees communicate by feeding each other?
When the field bees come in and they've got their pollen baskets, other bees come up to them and take out the pollen from the pollen baskets. If he field bees are filled with nectar, they go and they deposit that nectar. And other bees take that off to the storage cells.
Aaah, that's right, I read about it and forgot! When a forager bee collects nectar, she puts it in her stomach and when she gets back to the hive, she regurgitates the nectar into another bee's mouth, and this way the nectar gets partially digested before it gets stored in the honeycomb. And I guess this is a form of communication by feeding, because one bee learns about the quality of plant that the other bee has visited.
Also, don't forget the queen's attendants groom and touch her and they feed her. And so when they're touching or feeding her, they're also telling her, here's where the nursery needs more, we need more drone cells or we need more worker bee cells.
My understanding is, first off, the queen, even if she wanted to, she she can't feed herself. She does not have the mouth parts to digest food herself.
So she has to be fed by worker bees who have to predigest food for the queen. As the food gets exchanged, I think pheromones from the queen bee get distributed through the hive, right. So through food that attendants take from the queen and distribute among other workers in the hive they are communicating the health of the queen, right?
Correct. Yes.
Bees communicate where food is located through what's known as the waggle dance.
The waggle dance is when the forager bees go out, find food, find nectar and pollen and come back. And then draw a map that translates as: Go three three blocks down south and then make a hard right turn and go half a block. And there you are, to, a great nectar treasure. It is a drawing that they do through dance. It communicates latitude and longitude.
And where the nectar is in relation to the sun. Right?
And you have to remember: Bees cannot see the waggle dance which unfolds inside the hive, because it's totally dark in there.
It's totally dark.
But they feel the bee who is dancing and therefore they know what the dance looks like.
Wow, when you think of it, the communication among bees is amazingly complex.
You said that worker bees take on a variety of tasks. The interesting thing is that they go through a sequence of responsibilities. So they do certain things when they are very young and other things when they are older. How does that work?
Well, once she's a newborn, she might become a nurse bee to other newborns, to her sisters. She might be working in food storage. And at some point, she gets big enough as she reaches her full size and strength. And then she goes out to be a field bee. The field bees work themselves to death. They live in the height of the summer, in the height of the harvest, four to six weeks. They can last two to three months if it's winter and they're not out foraging.
So the worker bee hatches after about three weeks and then she lives for six weeks to two months. First she lives inside the hive as a nurse bee or as a builder of comb. And then she gradually moves toward the outside. In that last stage of her life she is a forager who collects honey. And so the bees that you can see in the flowers, those are the forager bees. And that is that's the last part of their lives.
And what's so cool is that from the hive survival standpoint, this sequence makes perfect sense, because outside the hive, it's much more dangerous than inside. And so you want to protect your investment that you have placed in raising a tiny little bee as long as you can, until you have to send your investment out to gather honey. So it makes sense to send the worker bee into the dangerous world when she nears the latter part of her lifespan. If she gets killed by a bird, then maybe two days will be cut off from her life as opposed to two weeks.
What I find curious is that the life span among bees are so different. A worker bee lives at most two months, and a queen, even though she has exactly the same genetics as a worker bee, can live two years.
I do want to say the queen can last to five years. It's typically for beekeepers that are about the honey, they will typically replace the queen at two to three years because after two years, her egg product.... production falls off significantly.
That has to do with if one is a bee keeper versus if there's honeybees that have formed a feral hive. Right. Because if you're a beekeeper and you're all about the honey, then you might want to replace your queen every two years. In a hive that's in the tree stump or the abandoned barbecue pit, that might not be a bother to them. They may not feel the need or detect the need to replace the queen for three years.
Because they're not about honey production.
Yeah. They're about the propagation of the hive. But at some point the worker bees realize that that the egg laying is going slow and...
Absolutely. And that's part of what the worker bees do. And the queen attendants, I mean, they have gotten yeah.... they're with the queen and they certainly know when the egg production has dropped off. Yeah.
The Hive Splits in Two
When a hive becomes too small a place and the bees decide they need to establish another hive, how does that happen?
They somehow decide it's time to swarm and break the colony in two, right. They don't feed the existing queen as much, and they make her move around a lot so she gets thinner. And they start sending scouts, and they might send scouts out a week in advance, because I've talked to beekeepers about this. For a week you might see your bees just pouring out of the hive and hanging for 30 minutes around your hive and then all going back into the hive. So at some point they understand that the "go" button has been pushed. They gather the old queen. The bees fill themselves with honey in their storage units and pollen; the amount of bees that are going to swarm leaves.
And what we need to say maybe to make this a little clearer, is that the process of swarming is a process of breaking a hive into two. So by the time the existing queen swarms with part of the hive, she has laid eggs to raise new queens. And just as the newest queen is about to hatch and to kill her competitors, the old queen with part of the hive will go on the swarm so that the new queen has room to expand, and the existing colony that's the other half with the older queen that is now swarming, will find a new location where they also can expand.
So I have read that this swarming is an example of worker decision making. The decision where to go is not made by the queen. It is the scouts that go to various places. Then they come back to the rest of the bees and say, this is a place we think we like. And then more bees go there and check it out and signal whether they agree or not. And then once there is widespread agreement with that location, that decision is made to go there. So it is a decision that is made by the worker bees.
Correct. Absolutely.
A Life of Service
If you were born as a bee and you had a choice, if you wanted to be a drone or a worker bee or a queen bee, which would you choose and why?
I would be a worker bee because I like a variety of tasks. And I would I would be doing different things until I die. And that is an appealing thing. I would be continuing to learn new things.
Honestly, me too. I mean, the worker bee has such a shorter life span than a queen bee. But can you imagine spending your life laying egg after egg after egg? I mean, this is not a life of a queen. This is a life of drudgery and monotony, hmm?
Says the conversation between two people who've chosen not to have children.
And you totally put a human values on it. Life of drudgery and monotony. I mean, yes, I would look at that that way also. But this is so ... You know, again, from my personal viewpoint, each bee - drone, worker, or queen - fulfills their dharma, why they're incarnated, the service that they're to be doing, and the queen fully is there for the survival of the species. And and she's just willing to do it.
Each - both workers and drones and the queen - serve. They serve the hive. They're not about competing with each other or saying, I want to be the leader, I want to be the queen. They play the roles they're assigned. And the hive, survives.
Thrives.
Honeybee Nectar and Pollen
Bees, when you see them on a flower, they have these little clumps on their hind legs. Is that honey?
No, that's pollen. When they're going from flower to flower, they're taking nectar in and storing that and then they're putting pollen on the sides in their pollen baskets. And then when they go back to the hive, one of the bees will help them get the pollen out of their pollen baskets, and the bees will then regurgitate the nectar into particular cells. And other bees will work with that. And it becomes honey.
What is the relevance of nectar and pollen? Would you say that one is the carbs, the energy and the other one is the protein?
Yes. I would say that the nectar is the carb and the pollen is the protein. And combined, they make something called bee bread, which is fed to newly hatched bees.
So essentially, they take the nectar, and they maybe process it with enzymes that are in their stomachs, then they regurgitate it, they put it into the comb, into the cells where they evaporate the water. And then eventually, at the time when it reaches a certain ratio of water they cap it, and that's then the honey.
How to Find the Good Honey
Now we know the basics of what honey is, but when you go to the store, you can find all kinds of honey. You can find raw honey, local honey. And then you can find the honey in the little bear. You know, like there's like a little plastic bear.
Okay. If you want to find the real deal, then I encourage everyone to go to the farmer's market, because the real deal … raw honey is honey that has not been heated. So it's called Raw. Because when you heat honey for like a recipe and things, it affects the quality of the honey. So it's not anti-microbial. It's not antifungal anymore. It loses the medicinal power of the honey.
So so what we can buy in the little bear bottle, what is that?
In the little honey bear bottle, it could be honey from a guy with two thousand hives in South Dakota. It could also be honey that's been imported from China, and they've added sugar water to it. They added corn syrup to it. That's why I rarely buy .... I don't .... In fact, I don't. I do not buy honey in honey bear jars anymore, because I don't trust it. For a long time, the Chinese, until they were caught, were doctoring their honey with corn syrup and selling that as 100 percent honey. That's why I go to get my honey, if I'm gonna buy honey, from the farmer's market or I know a local beekeeper, and I will get honey from them.
Yes. Yeah.
You say farmers market, do you have specific places in Houston?
Well, the farmers market on Saturday mornings at Buffalo Speedway and Westheimer, the Urban Harvest Farmers Market, there are two different beekeepers there. And I trust them both. I would be happy to get honey from them.
The Honeybee and Colony Collapse Disorder
What you just what you just said about being careful with honey ... I have read something similar in the book by Les Crowder, who is a top bar beekeeper, and he wrote the book "Top Bar Beekeeping." He does not talk about corn syrup or any of that sort. But he tried to explain the colony collapse disorder. So a few years ago, there was this massive dying of honeybees. And it was thought that it might have been a mite infestation. The varroe mite. Is that how you pronounce it?
Varroa.
The varroa mite. He said there are so many other things that make these bees sick, including pesticides. And the problem is that pesticides and insecticides lodge themselves in the beeswax. So if you have a large scale honey production where they are trying to sell as much honey as they can, they will use the same comb, the wax structures that the bees have built over and over and over again. In addition, they will hang miticide - a substance to kill mites like the varroa mite - into the hive. And often they won't take it out. So instead of taking it out of the hive and then putting a new one in, they just put additional miticide in there. And so you have this abundance of miticides in the hives, which ends up killing the bees. And of course, you know, if you get the honey from those honeycombs, then probably a lot of that stuff's in the honey, too, huh?
Minute particles. Yeah, absolutely. Think of a miticide as a strip, think of a fly strip in the kitchen. Right. And how nasty that looks after flies have died on it. That's what a miticide strip is in a beehive.
Thank you for saying that. That is indeed one of the questions I did have. Honey bees are not only important for making honey, which is what we love so much, but they are more important even as pollinators.
They are they are our biggest pollinators. One of the problems with colony collapse disorder is thousands of our pollinators were wiped out. If we lose our honeybees, we will not have any fruit trees or vegetables like squash get pollinated. No bees, no pollination, none of those products in a matter of time.
There are many, many bee species in the world, and 90 percent of them are solitary, unlike our honeybee. Those could not jump in to do the pollination, right? We do need honeybees for that.
Those populations of those bees aren't big enough. Their hive structures aren't big enough to support the number of bees that we need for pollination.
Plus a lot of agriculture is mono crop. So you have this giant orchard of almond trees. Or this giant field of ...
Soy.
You need them pollinated once a year and then perhaps for the rest of the year you don't have flowers there, but at that moment you need them pollinated. So you need massive pollination at one time. And that's where you can ship in honeybees in a hive, put them there, let them pollinate it, and then take the hives and transport them somewhere else. Right. So you can't have solitary bees. It's just way too much for them to handle at one time.
So we do need honeybees.
Oh, my gosh. We so need honeybees. As the U.S. got more and more populated after the Second World War there was a shift in the attitude towards beekeeping. The bees stopped being kept for honey. And they started being kept as farm animals that could be leased out as pollinators. And so there are beekeepers that have 2,000 hives that will drive their bees to the almond fields in California. The bees that survive almost working themselves to death, are then trucked up into Washington State and Oregon to pollinate pear and apple trees. And then those that survive are trucked back to North Dakota, they might be trucked somewhere for blueberries or they're brought back to the south to overwinter. I love apples. It's challenging. I rarely eat almonds anymore because I know what a hit the bee populations take after being in the almond fields. I'm not ready to give up apples yet. But I just heard my inner voice one day say you got to rethink eating almonds.
I don't quite understand, the bees pollinate the almonds, and why do they take a hit from that? Because they're being transported?
One, they're being trucked all over the country and they're working themselves to death. I mean, they're in those almond fields for four to six weeks, and they're constantly working, and then they're being fed sugar water to keep their energy going. They don't even have time to even feed within the hive what's going to be good for them. And then the ones that manage to survive get loaded up on semi tractor trailers again and are hauled north. The bees are just getting moved around too much. Because of the being moved around so much, being worked, worked so much, they're generationally weaker.
So colony collapse disorder should affect bees that are being moved around a lot, a lot more than ...
Yeah. That's one of the things that we think. It weakens their genetics by being moved around so much. Neonicotides, which is in Roundup and that sort of pesticides, those weaken the bees' immune system also. Which means that they're just a setup for mite infestation.
So you stress them a lot. You don't let them eat what is healthy for them, which is pollen plus honey.
And as a result, they are more susceptible to infestations of the mites, plus the constant miticites that are being hung that also weaken the bees.
Yes. Plus, they're they're only feeding on mono-crops. Whether it's almonds or pears or apples, it's still: they're not getting a wide variety in their diet.
Their diet is just monotone.
It's like if we ate white bread all day long.
Good new insights. What would you like the listeners of this podcast to take away from the episode?
A Working Monastery
For me, keeping bees is a completely joyful experience. So if you're thinking about getting bees, it is so much fun. Yes, you're going to get stung. That's OK unless you're allergic. It is joyful. It is fun. Think of it. You're looking at a working monastery.
How are they working monastery?
Well, they're single-minded. There's no ego. They're devoted towards the species carrying forward. They all work together. They're not out partying. I mean, the queen has her one nuptial flight, and that's it, man. And she's back in there and she's doing her job.
So it feels like a monastery to me in that way.
What are things that listeners can do in small ways to honor and support honeybees?
If they can't keep bees, but they have the yards, they can plant bee-friendly plants and nurseries are so hip to what plants are great for butterflies and bees. So you can plant plants for bees. You can consider stop using Roundup on your weeds because the roundup and the insecticides are not good for the bees. You can support your local beekeepers by buying honey at farmer's markets. And if you live in an apartment, you can still buy honey. Or, you know, if you have a balcony, plant some herbs on your balcony. African blue basil is an herb that bees love. It's a variety of basil. And you can get it at nurseries. And they love it. And you can use it in your cooking.
Thank you so much, Carlisle, for all these fantastic insights.
You're you're welcome, Nivien. it's been fun.
This is it for today, but I want to leave you with a final thought. It's something that occurred to me yesterday: Honeybees embody non violence. True, if you disturb their hive, you will get stung. But they are not predators, which means they live without harming other animals. In fact, they live without harming plants. Whatever nectar they take from flowers is freely given as a thank you for their pollination services. So if non violence impresses you, consider the honeybees your hero.
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| name = Fiofío oliváceo
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
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| image = Olivaceous elaenia (cropped).jpg
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| image_caption = Fiofío oliváceo (Elaenia mesoleuca) en Río Grande, Río Grande del Sur, Brasil.
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Aves
| ordo = Passeriformes
| familia = Tyrannidae
| subfamilia = Elaeniinae
| tribus = Elaeniini
| genus = Elaenia
| species = E. mesoleuca| species_authority = (Deppe, 1830)
| synonyms = Muscicapa mesoleuca (protónimo)
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El fiofío oliváceo o fio-fio olivo (Elaenia mesoleuca'''), es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Tyrannidae, perteneciente al numeroso género Elaenia. Es nativo del centro oriental de América del Sur.

 Distribución y hábitat
Se distribuye en el sureste de Brasil (desde el sur de Goiás y sur de Bahía al sur hasta Río Grande del Sur), este de Paraguay, hasta el noreste de Argentina y Uruguay.

Esta especie es considerada en general poco común en sus hábitats naturales: el interior de bosques húmedos y montanos de la Mata Atlántica, desde el nivel del mar hasta los 2000 m de altitud; aparentemente algunas aves se mueven hacia el norte en bosques en galería del centro de Brasil, en la temporada no reproductiva, pero este movimiento es incierto.

 Sistemática
 Descripción original
La especie E. mesoleuca fue descrita por primera vez por el contador Wilhelm Deppe —con base en descripciones de su hermano, el naturalista alemán Ferdinand Deppe— en 1830 bajo el nombre científico Muscicapa mesoleuca; la localidad tipo dada fue: «México», pero el holotipo está etiquetado «Montevideo, Uruguay».

 Etimología
El nombre genérico femenino «Elaenia» deriva del griego «ελαινεος elaineos» que significa 'de aceite de oliva', 'oleaginosa'; y el nombre de la especie «mesoleuca», se compone de las palabras del griego «mesos» que significa 'mitad', 'medio', y «leukos» que significa 'blanco'.

 Taxonomía
Varios autores disputan relatos de hibridación con Elaenia parvirostris'' en el sur de Brasil (Río Grande del Sur). Es monotípica.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Videos, fotos y sonidos de Elaenia mesoleuca en eBird.
 Sonidos y mapa de distribución de Elaenia mesoleuca en xeno-canto.
 Fotos y sonidos de  tuque Elaenia mesoleuca en Wikiaves.

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Taxones descritos por Wilhelm Deppe
Animales descritos en 1830

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Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has warned of a grave threat to the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. He made the disclosure after 10 prisoners were transferred to hospital following a dramatic deterioration in their health condition.
According to letters sent by Ambassador Mansour sent to the UN's Secretary General, the Chairman of the Security Council and President of the General Assembly, the lives of a large number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for the last 59 to 67 days are now seriously endangered.
The Ambassador highlighted the case of striking prisoners, Bilal Diab and Thae'r Hlahalah, who have been on hunger strike since 29 February. Both have suffered substantial loss of weight and a sharp drop in blood pressure.
In a related matter, Ambassador Mansour explained that the situation across the occupied Palestinian territories is witnessing a dangerous decline as a result of the provocations and illegal actions of the occupation authorities. He pointed to the arrest of more than 2,000 Palestinians by the occupying forces since last October, including a number of ex-detainees.
Ambassador Mansour urged the Security Council to hold the Israeli occupation authorities accountable for their inhuman treatment of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
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I imagine a lot of people relate to this issue, I see it come up a lot with my clients as well as people in my own personal life.
As I explain the article, love isn't enough in my opinion. Relationships need to not be based entirely on emotion, but also practicalities. After all, you're after someone to support your life, and visa-versa.
Yes, many people would argue otherwise – that love can overcome anything and everything – but others would argue that the practicalities are more important than love. For example, the Indian culture favours arranged marriage based on family ties, social standing (i.e. practicalities), over love, and has an incredibly lower divorce rate than here in Australia or the USA. The Western World has had a questionable concept of love drilled into us from the media and movies.
If you're in different stages of your life, regardless of how much you love each other, the practicalities of the relationship are not going to work. And there is only so long that the love will make up for it.
I am in no way downplaying love – love is awesome – it's when love overshadows the realities of the relationship that problems arise.
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Norwegian Norge. a kingdom in N Europe, in the W part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 124,555 sq. mi. (322,597 sq. km). Capital: Oslo.
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a kingdom in NW Europe, occupying the W part of the Scandinavian peninsula: first united in the Viking age (800–1050); under the rule of Denmark (1523–1814) and Sweden (1814–1905); became an independent monarchy in 1905. Its coastline is deeply indented by fjords and fringed with islands, rising inland to plateaus and mountains. Norway has a large fishing fleet and its merchant navy is among the world's largest. Official language: Norwegian. Official religion: Evangelical Lutheran. Currency: krone. Capital: Oslo. Pop: 4 722 701 (2013 est). Area: 323 878 sq km (125 050 sq miles)Norwegian name: Norge
Word Origin and History for norway
Old English Norweg, Norþweg from Old Norse Norvegr "north way, a way leading to the north" (see north + way); contrasted with suthrvegar "south way," i.e. Germany, and austrvegr "east way," the Baltic lands.
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Constitutional monarchy in northern Europe, located in western Scandinavia. Its capital and largest city is Oslo.
Norway was occupied by German troops in World War II.
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Psychological Music
I have a LOT of music. I buy a lot, borrow some, obtain others (hey, would you pass up a 4GB download of every "Now" album.. yeah I know, I should've too). The one thing I've always had a problem with is tracking my short-term listening habits.
I tend to buy music in spurts. I'll purchase several albums at one time and listen to them when I get a chance, which is where my problem begins. Because I don't ever sit down to listen to music, it's always on in the background) then it can take a while for an album to wheedle it's way into my affections.
I guess I should learn my lesson and cut back on my musical purchases but there is still that part of me that wonders if I'm about to miss the next big thing (when, in reality, I ALWAYS miss it.. ).
Anyway, what usually happens is that one or two albums instantly take root in my brain and remain there for some time. I generally have 5 or 6 albums on rotation but even then some albums slip through the cracks and fall into the depths of my music library (I AM trying to cut back though, I know that 106GB of music isn't really practical to manage… ahem).
However, having recently purchased a 250GB external hard drive (a Western Digital passport) and backing up all my music there I decided to take it into work as I had a quiet couple of days ahead. Rather than copy the music to my PC, I left it on there and decided to create a new iTunes library. It took about 20 mins to scan it all and then I had a pristine library to browse.
And you know what? All of a sudden I'm actually browsing it rather than relying on various smart lists to filter the new from the old. Without any metadata bogging me down I'm suddenly free to go and find whatever music I stumble across. Yes, I know I could've done that before but I guess not having any way to manipulate the tracks, or at least not having my usual methods available to me (smartlists for recently added and recently played) I've ended up just randomly scrolling through the library and picking whatever takes my fancy.
It's been hugely liberating. So much so I'm almost considering doing the same at home.
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Lyle said:
It's the only way to do it, IMHO. I far prefer to choose what I want to listen to, rather than letting iTunes, RealPlayer or whatever choose for me.
But then, as has been observed on many occasions, I'm a bit of a control freak like that.
techcommdood said:
Only 106 GB? 😉
I'm at 200 GB and still going. I'd burned hundreds of MP3 CDs, and now that I have a big enough hard drive, I'm still loading them all back in!
mum said:
In the good old days it was really liberating to only be able to afford to buy 1 '78' or '45' (-i.e. 2 tunes, one on each side) once a fortnight, or if you were flush once a week. It did mean that you were usually up to date with the 'Hit Parade' and could sing all the words of all the songs as you played them ad infinitum till you bought the next one! Cataloguing was done by hand in a jotter you had bought in Woolie's or if you were gallous, knicked from school. Such uncomplicated days!!
K said:
And those of us with a paltry 50Gb or so of music are grateful that you have left said harddrive plugged in whilst you Budapest it up 🙂
Have found myself listening to Elbow and Yo La Tengo, both of whom I would never have listened to otherwise, so thanks 😀
Cheerful One said:
I've always done that, apart from making huge play lists of certain artists for when I want to listen to them only, or when I am sitting on trains which is the ideal time to make play lists.
The biggest change for me with iTunes was that for a while I would listen to a lot of random tracks, but after a year or so of that I went back to choosing and listening to complete albums.
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Traders will likely be in a wait-and-see frame of mind this week as they look to some kind of progress from American politicians towards a vital budget compromise that would pull the economy away from a so-called fiscal cliff.
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They will also be anxious to see how American retailers fared over the weekend as the holiday retail season got into gear, and the first indication of how the Canadian financial sector performed over the last quarter.
North American stock markets racked up solid gains last week on optimism that American lawmakers can put aside steep ideological differences and come together on a compromise to avoid steep spending cuts and tax increases which would be triggered by the first of the year.
Traders were also encouraged by millions of Americans flocking to shopping malls Thursday night and Friday to scoop up bargains.
The TSX gained 2.82 per cent after falling 2.6 per cent the previous week while the Dow industrials were up 3.34 per cent after losing almost two per cent.
Also supporting markets was a sharp runup in Research In Motion shares (TSX:RIM)(NASDAQ:RIMM). The stock surged $2.38 or 25.8 per cent to 11.61 during the week, with gains concentrated last Thursday after a National Bank Financial analyst upped his share price target. That move came amid rising optimism about RIM's new BlackBerry 10 operating system, which will be unveiled at a Jan. 30 event along with its new line of smartphones. It's viewed as a make or break product launch for Research In Motion.
Negotiations over avoiding the fiscal cliff will likely dominate market sentiment since failure to avoid those tax hikes and spending cuts would represent such a shock to the economy that it would likely go back into recession.
"The markets gave a pass last week because of the (Thanksgiving) holiday and because President Obama was overseas," said Colin Cieszynski, market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.
"Now, they're going to want to see them getting back to work and see signs they are actually working towards a deal and they can get something done by the end of the year. The posturing had better not last long, the markets are going to be right on them I think."
Markets had tumbled in the seven sessions after the Nov. 6 election as the results of the contest left the political status quo largely intact, raising worries that Republicans and Democrats wouldn't be willing to compromise.
But sentiment took a positive turn as the initial meetings between the two sides Nov. 16 showed politicians in a more conciliatory mood.
Meanwhile, Royal Bank (TSX:RY) kicks off a string of earnings by the big Canadian banks. It's reporting on Thursday.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect Royal to turn in $1.26 per share of adjusted earnings on $7.4 billion of revenue for the three months ended Oct. 31.
Generally, analysts don't have huge expectations for this quarter amid a slowing Canadian economy and, more particularly, a cooling off of the real estate market, which would impact the money banks make from mortgages.
"On the mortgage side you could start to see a bit of a slowdown, even if it doesn't show up in the numbers people will be looking to see if there are any comments on it for going forward," said Cieszynski.
"Some of the earnings may get trimmed a bit as we go forward."
And he doesn't expect the banks to dole out any extra money to shareholders since the big five Canadian banks raised their dividends last quarter.
The rest of the big banks report next week.
Also capturing traders' attention will be the launch of public trading of Canada's oldest company, Hudson's Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Its return to the public stock market values the retail company at $17 a share, or about $2 billion in total. HBC says it plans to sell a total 21 million shares — about one-fifth of the company's stock — raising about $365 million through an initial public offering.
An IPO is a rare and risky move during this volatile time for stock markets, so eyes will be watching to see whether traders believe the company is worth the $17 per share it is asking.
In early trading last week, on a so-called "if and when issued basis," HBC shares ended the week at $16.85 per share.
On the economic front, the major event of the week is the September reading on gross domestic product. Statistics Canada is expected to report the economy grew by 0.1 per cent during the month. Such a reading would translate into the economy growing by 0.9 per cent at an annual rate during the third quarter.
"A sharp deterioration in net exports, slicing more than two (percentage) points from growth, and emerging weakness in housing are expected to weigh on GDP," said BMO Capital Markets senior economist Benjamin Reitzes.
In the U.S., investors will look to October durable goods, the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index and the Conference Board's latest take on consumer confidence on Tuesday.
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What is the lifespan of a piano?
Sounds true but really unfair considering the cost of a fine grand piano but even more so the sentimental bonding of the family piano where we took our first steps.
This piano is no longer useful and it either has to be recycled or reconstructed from scratch.
Soundboard replacement every 40 years.
According to piano markets, the instrument devaluates 20 to 30% every five years, more for concert use, less for private.
Pianos are two souls in one body: The action and the musical instrument – it is like a car and an engine. Both these systems wear in time due to moisture variations, use, microorganisms and time itself. All these affect both systems although the action is more susceptible to wear by use and the piano sound by moisture variations and time. In other words, more care and stable conditions delay piano aging but it will still diminish in performance even if it is safeguarded and locked in a sterile, insulated environment.
To a large extent, pianos are self-destructive instruments. Their own stresses are enormous and they cause plastic deformation on soundboard cells (loss of crown, down bearing and elasticity), stretching of strings (loss of elasticity and breaking point increase), string termination points deformation, warping of keys and shanks, hammer resilience loss, friction variations and all these without even touching a piano!
The elegant rich piano sound springs out of the dynamic balance of forces F1, F2 and F3. The soundboard is like a compressed membrane pressing upwards (F2) and the string pressing downwards through the bridge at an angle α (F1). We accurately evaluate these measurements and we monitor them in time.
This is evident on the sound of the old piano: dry, short, with a lot of attack and zero swell. Sometimes we may still have sustain and a small but pleasant volume but only traces that remind us of the original glory of the new piano.


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Maricao is known as "El Pueblo de las Indieras" (town of indian settlements). Maricao was founded on April 10, 1874 by Bernardo Collado, Julián Ayala, Francisco M. Sojo Napoleón Pietri and Leoncio S. Martínez.
Maricao Church
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Q: SQL inner join, order by timestamp in two tables How do I order inner join output from the timestamp in two different tables?
| id |      event |                  timestamp |
------------------------------------------------
|  1 |     passed |        2019-06-05 11:55:44 |
|  1 |     failed |        2019-06-09 08:19:35 |

| id |      event |                  timestamp |
------------------------------------------------
|  1 | email_sent |        2019-06-05 11:56:44 |
|  1 | email_sent |        2019-06-09 08:20:35 |

Desired Result:
| id |      event |                  timestamp |
------------------------------------------------
|  1 |     passed |        2019-06-05 11:55:44 |
|  1 | email_sent |        2019-06-05 11:56:44 |
|  1 |     failed |        2019-06-09 08:19:35 |
|  1 | email_sent |        2019-06-09 08:20:35 |

This is what I have so far, however it orders TableA by the timestamp and then TableB by the timestamp, instead of ordering by all timestamps at once:
SELECT TableA.*, TableB.* FROM TableA
        INNER JOIN TableB ON TableA.id=TableB.id
        WHERE TableA.id='1' ORDER BY TableA.timestamp, TableB.timestamp

A: You want union all:
select id, event, timestamp
from tablea
union all
select id, event, timestamp
from tableb
order by timestamp;

You can add where id = 1 to each subquery, if you want to filter the rows.

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package fommil.sjs

import org.scalatest._
import spray.json._
import shapeless._
import java.util.UUID

// Example domain models used in the tests. Note that the domain model
// and formatters are defined in sibling packages.
package examples {
  sealed trait SimpleTrait
  case class Foo(s: String) extends SimpleTrait
  case class Bar() extends SimpleTrait
  case object Baz extends SimpleTrait
  case class Faz(o: Option[String]) extends SimpleTrait

  sealed trait SubTrait extends SimpleTrait
  case object Fuzz extends SubTrait

  sealed trait Spiel
  case object Buzz extends Spiel

  case class Schpugel(v: String) // I asked my wife to make up a word
  case class Smim(v: String) // I should stop asking my wife to make up words

  sealed trait StringEnum {
    def label: String
  }
  case class Flooma(label: String) extends StringEnum // to be fair, that was mine
  case class Blam(label: String) extends StringEnum

  sealed trait Cloda
  case class Plooba(thing: String) extends Cloda // *sigh*

  object Quack
  case class Huey(duck: Quack.type, witch: Option[Quack.type])
  case class Dewey(duck: Quack.type, witch: Option[Quack.type])
  case class Louie(duck: Quack.type, witch: Option[Quack.type])

  // I love monkeys, you got a problem with that?
  sealed trait Primates
  sealed trait Strepsirrhini extends Primates
  sealed trait Haplorhini extends Primates
  sealed trait Tarsiiformes extends Haplorhini
  case object Tarsiidae extends Tarsiiformes
  sealed trait Simiiformes extends Haplorhini
  sealed trait Platyrrhini extends Simiiformes
  case object Callitrichidae extends Platyrrhini
  case object Cebidae extends Platyrrhini
  case object Aotidae extends Platyrrhini
  case object Pitheciidae extends Platyrrhini
  case object Atelidae extends Platyrrhini
  sealed trait Catarrhini extends Simiiformes
  sealed trait Cercopithecoidea extends Catarrhini
  case object Cercopithecidae extends Cercopithecoidea
  sealed trait Hominoidea extends Catarrhini
  case object Hylobatidae extends Hominoidea
  case class Hominidae(id: UUID) extends Hominoidea

}
object ExamplesFormats extends DefaultJsonProtocol with FamilyFormats {
  import examples._

  // wtf?? why is this needed, why does it even work? Miles??
  implicit val symbolFormat = SymbolJsonFormat

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // Example of "explicit implicit" for performance
  implicit val SimpleTraitFormat: RootJsonFormat[SimpleTrait] = cachedImplicit

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // user-defined hinting
  implicit object SubTraitHint extends FlatCoproductHint[SubTrait]("hint")
  implicit object SpielHint extends NestedCoproductHint[Spiel]

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // user-defined field naming rules
  implicit object ClodaHint extends FlatCoproductHint[Cloda]("TYPE") {
    override def fieldName(orig: String): String = orig.toUpperCase
  }
  implicit object PloobaHint extends ProductHint[Plooba] {
    override def fieldName[K <: Symbol](k: K): String = k.name.toUpperCase
  }

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // user-defined /missing value rules
  implicit object HueyHint extends ProductHint[Huey] {
    override def nulls = AlwaysJsNull
  }
  implicit object DeweyHint extends ProductHint[Dewey] {
    override def nulls = JsNullNotNone
  }
  implicit object LouieHint extends ProductHint[Louie] {
    override def nulls = NeverJsNull
  }
  implicit object QuackFormat extends JsonFormat[Quack.type] {
    // needed something that would serialise to JsNull for testing
    def read(j: JsValue): Quack.type = j match {
      case JsNull => Quack
      case other => deserializationError(s"unexpected $other")
    }
    def write(q: Quack.type): JsValue = JsNull
  }

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // user-defined JsonFormat
  implicit object SchpugelFormat extends JsonFormat[Schpugel] {
    def read(j: JsValue): Schpugel = j match {
      case JsString(v) => Schpugel(v)
      case other => deserializationError(s"unexpected $other")
    }
    def write(s: Schpugel): JsValue = JsString(s.v)
  }

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // user-defined RootJsonFormat
  implicit object SmimFormat extends RootJsonFormat[Smim] {
    def read(j: JsValue): Smim = j match {
      case JsObject(els) if els.contains("smim") =>
        els("smim") match {
          case JsString(v) => Smim(v)
          case other => deserializationError(s"unexpected $other")
        }
      case other => deserializationError(s"unexpected $other")
    }
    def write(s: Smim): JsValue = JsObject("smim" -> JsString(s.v))
  }

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // non-trivial user-defined JsonFormat
  implicit def stringEnumFormat[T <: StringEnum](
    implicit
    g: Generic.Aux[T, String :: HNil],
    tpe: Typeable[T]
  ): JsonFormat[T] = new JsonFormat[T] {
    def read(json: JsValue): T = json match {
      case JsString(value) => g.from(value :: HNil)
      case _ => deserializationError("expected JsString, got " + json)
    }
    def write(obj: T): JsValue = JsString(obj.label)
  }
}

class FamilyFormatsSpec extends FlatSpec with Matchers
    with SprayJsonTestSupport {
  import examples._
  import ExamplesFormats._

  "FamilyFormats" should "support case objects" in {
    roundtrip(Baz, "{}")
  }

  it should "support symbols, provided by base spray-json" in {
    // any use of Symbol seems to need the hack above. Known caveat.
    roundtrip('foo, """"foo"""")
  }

  it should "support case classes" in {
    roundtrip(Foo("foo"), """{"s":"foo"}""")
    roundtrip(Bar(), "{}")
  }

  it should "support optional parameters on case classes" in {
    roundtrip(Faz(Some("meh")), """{"o":"meh"}""") // note uses optionFormat, not familyFormat
    roundtrip(Faz(None), "{}") // should be omitted, not "null"
  }

  it should "fail when missing required fields" in {
    intercept[DeserializationException] {
      """{}""".parseJson.convertTo[Foo]
    }
  }

  it should "support simple sealed families" in {
    roundtrip(Foo("foo"): SimpleTrait, """{"type":"Foo","s":"foo"}""")
    roundtrip(Bar(): SimpleTrait, """{"type":"Bar"}""")
    roundtrip(Baz: SimpleTrait, """{"type":"Baz"}""")
    roundtrip(Fuzz: SimpleTrait, """{"type":"Fuzz"}""")
  }

  it should "fail when missing required coproduct disambiguators" in {
    intercept[DeserializationException] {
      """{"s":"foo"}""".parseJson.convertTo[SimpleTrait]
    }
  }

  it should "support custom coproduct keys" in {
    roundtrip(Fuzz: SubTrait, """{"hint":"Fuzz"}""")
    roundtrip(Buzz: Spiel, """{"Buzz":{}}""")
  }

  it should "support custom coproduct field naming rules" in {
    roundtrip(Plooba("poo"): Cloda, """{"TYPE":"PLOOBA","THING":"poo"}""")
  }

  it should "support custom product field naming rules" in {
    roundtrip(Plooba("poo"), """{"THING":"poo"}""")
  }

  it should "support custom missing value rules" in {
    roundtrip(Huey(Quack, None), """{"duck":null,"witch":null}""")
    roundtrip(Dewey(Quack, None), """{"duck":null}""")
    roundtrip(Louie(Quack, None), """{}""")

    val json = """{"duck":null,"witch":null}""".parseJson
    json.convertTo[Huey] shouldBe Huey(Quack, None)
    json.convertTo[Dewey] shouldBe Dewey(Quack, Some(Quack))
    json.convertTo[Louie] shouldBe Louie(Quack, None)
  }

  it should "fail when missing required (null) values" in {
    val noduck = """{"witch":null}""".parseJson
    val nowitch = """{"duck":null}""".parseJson

    intercept[DeserializationException] {
      noduck.convertTo[Huey]
    }
    intercept[DeserializationException] {
      noduck.convertTo[Dewey]
    }
    noduck.convertTo[Louie] shouldBe Louie(Quack, None)

    intercept[DeserializationException] {
      nowitch.convertTo[Huey]
    }
    nowitch.convertTo[Dewey] shouldBe Dewey(Quack, None)
    nowitch.convertTo[Louie] shouldBe Louie(Quack, None)
  }

  it should "prefer user customisable JsonFormats" in {
    roundtrip(Schpugel("foo"), """"foo"""")
  }

  it should "prefer user customisable RootJsonFormats" in {
    roundtrip(Smim("foo"), """{"smim":"foo"}""")
  }

  it should "prefer non-trivial user customisable JsonFormats" in {
    roundtrip(Flooma("aha"), """"aha"""")

    // This might surprise you: the user's custom formatter for the
    // classes in this family is a `JsonFormat` (not a
    // `RootJsonFormat`), so when we serialise the trait, it is forced
    // to fall back to the derived product rule, not the custom one,
    // because it expects a `RootJsonFormat`. Funky.

    // WORKAROUND: https://github.com/fommil/spray-json-shapeless/issues/5
    //roundtrip(Flooma("aha"): StringEnum, """{"type":"Flooma","label":"aha"}""")
  }

  it should "fail to compile when a member of the family cannot be serialised" in {
    // this is an example of when this library can be very
    // frustrating. The compiler error when an implicit cannot be
    // created is always the least specific type. Here we're missing a
    // formatter for UUIDs but the compiler warns about Primates. If
    // we narrow it down to Hominidae it also errors... but finding
    // these problems is a human driven search game.

    shapeless.test.illTyped(
      """roundtrip(Hominidae(UUID.randomUUID): Primates)""",
      ".*could not find implicit value for evidence parameter of type spray.json.JsonFormat\\[fommil.sjs.examples.Primates\\].*"
    )

    shapeless.test.illTyped(
      """roundtrip(Hominidae(UUID.randomUUID))""",
      ".*could not find implicit value for evidence parameter of type spray.json.JsonFormat\\[fommil.sjs.examples.Hominidae\\].*"
    )
  }

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////
  // non-trivial AST (in separate file)
  it should "support an example ADT" in {
    import ExampleAst._

    roundtrip(SpecialToken: TokenTree, """{"type":"SpecialToken"}""")

    val fieldTerm = FieldTerm("thing is ten", DatabaseField("THING"), "10")
    roundtrip(fieldTerm: TokenTree, """{"type":"FieldTerm","text":"thing is ten","field":{"column":"THING"},"value":"10"}""")

    val and = AndCondition(fieldTerm, fieldTerm, "wibble")
    roundtrip(and: TokenTree, """{"type":"AndCondition","left":{"type":"FieldTerm","text":"thing is ten","field":{"column":"THING"},"value":"10"},"right":{"type":"FieldTerm","text":"thing is ten","field":{"column":"THING"},"value":"10"},"text":"wibble"}""")
  }
}

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Snacking my way into the weekend with these Dark Chocolate Cherry Energy Bites. Nut-free, with sunflower seeds and quinoa flakes, these bites are super chocolatey and incredibly easy to make!
And perhaps what's more exciting is that February brings with it lots of food-related celebrations like the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day. The month of savoury snacks and sweet treats is here!
To be honest, if it wasn't for my husband, I probably wouldn't know it was this Sunday. I "watch" the Super Bowl every year with him, but I'm in it for the food and the show. Sadly, I continue to know next to nothing about football!
But snacks? I know my snacks! For certain, I'll be whipping up this hummus for Sunday's festivities, and maybe even this vegetarian chili (which will double as my lunch for the week!). And for a healthier treat, I'll have a batch of these Dark Chocolate Cherry Energy Bites ready to go.
If you've been following along for a while, you may have noticed I have a slight obsession with energy bites. While I have a few different recipes on the blog, chocolate hazelnut bites are probably my favourite, followed closely by these baked pineapple coconut bites.
But all of my energy bites contain nuts and nut butters, and with so many people experiencing nut allergies these days, I felt inspired to create a recipe that was nut-free. And that's how these Dark Chocolate Cherry Energy Bites came to be!
All you need is a food processor and some key ingredients like medjool dates, dried tart cherries, sunflower seeds, sunflower seed butter, quinoa flakes and cocoa.
These bites aren't overly sweet, but the hint of cocoa and the tart cherries totally remind me of a black forest cake. And they include lots of clean eating ingredients, so they make a great mid-day snack or post-supper treat.
If you make these Dark Chocolate Cherry Energy Bites be sure to leave a comment below and let me know what you think! Or take a photo and post it to Instagram. Just be sure to tag @crumbtopbaking so I see it!
Made with sunflower seeds, quinoa flakes, seed butter, dates and cocoa, these Dark Chocolate Cherry Energy Bites are nut-free, chocolatey and super easy to make!
In a small dish, combine the chopped dates with the hot water and vanilla and let soak for 20-30 minutes.
Add the date mixture (including the liquid) to a food processor, along with all the other ingredients, except the chocolate chips. Process on high until well combined but with some chunks of seeds and cherries remaining. This should only take a minute or two. You may need to stop the processor a few times to scrape down the sides or break apart the mixture. Add the chocolate chips and pulse for a few seconds. Roll the mixture into 12-14 balls. You can eat them right away or place them in the fridge to firm up a bit!
The energy bite mixture will be sticky, so you may need to rinse your hands with warm water a few times while rolling them.
Ooooh! So many tasty ingredients in one little ball. I need these in my life!
Thanks Jo! There is definitely a lot packed into this bowl! Happy weekend!
Ah, I will have to try this recipe. I have bought a package of dates and my midwife told me that I was supposed to eat 5 a day. Energy bites seems more appealing than eating straight dates! Plus, dark chocolate. Who can say no to that?!?
Oh my!!! These sound spectacular!
And I am definitely going to check out your Pineapple Coconut Bites as well, those flavors are some of my favorites!
Thanks Redawna! Hope you get a chance to check out the pineapple coconut bites too! Happy weekend!
These dark chocolate cherry energy bites look awesome! I've been thinking I need to make something like this for snacks while at work. I am the same way about football, I really don't know much about the sport, but my boyfriend doesn't really follow it either so I'm able to get away with it! Hahah. Have a great weekend!
I make energy bites all the time for a quick snack during the week. They make a great after supper treat too! Glad I'm not the only one that doesn't follow along with football! Have a great day Vanessa!
I love the classic combination of chocolate and cherries! These look absolutely delicious!
Thanks Marissa! I love the combo too! Happy weekend!
Oh goodness. I want that entire bowl!
Thanks Lily! It's definitely easy enough to eat more than one!
Yummy! These energy bites seem like a perfect breakfast idea to get me go through the day, Leanne. Can I use agave syrup instead of a maple one?
Thanks Agness! I've never used agave syrup before, but if it has the same consistency as maple syrup it should work as a substitute. Let me know if you try it!
I'm a huge fan of energy bites too Michelle! I hope you like the combo. If you make them, be sure to let me know what you think. Thanks for stopping by!
I'm definitely watching the Super Bowl today and just hope it's a good game! Last year's was a sleeper. These energy bites are right up my alley — I love the chocolate-cherry combination!
Thanks Marcie! I totally agree. Chocolate cherry is a great combo! Hope you enjoy the game and the rest of your Sunday!
Oh yum! Definitely making these for Valentine's Day!
Thanks Helene! Hope you like them!
So, I watched the last 20 minutes of the Superbowl! Haha, enough to see the excitement of the winner I suppose. I love that you made these bites nut-free! I make a lot of energy bites as well, but always with nuts too, and then I can't pack them in my son's pre-school lunch! I'll definitely be giving these a go!! Pinned!
The Super Bowl was on but I can't say I was watching it closely! But I did enjoy all the snacks! Thanks for pinning this one Katherine. I love that they are nut-free too! Hope you get a chance to make them. They're definitely perfect for school lunches!
I don't freakin' understand football, like, at all. And, what's up with all the starting and stopping? The half time show was pretty good, but seemed like the sound was off a bit. Anywho – I love energy bites and this is such a classic combo! Have a wonderful week, Leanne!
Thanks Dawn! These energy bites are a staple in our house these days! And I totally agree about football. I don't understand much about the game, but I enjoyed the half-time show! Have a great week!
Hi Leanne, I love the combination of dark cocoa andtart cherries, and am a huge fan of black forest cake. Just recently I did some reseach on quinoa and was utterly floored at how amazing this seed is or grain if you want is. Your flavors of the dates and the sunflower seed sound divine and I can only imagine the dance with your tastebuds that goes on when you pop one of these in your mouth. This is a great healthier snack, great to keep the energy alive for cheers, sudden leaps in the air, screams of shear delight, as your favorite team hits the end zone, lol.
Thanks Loreto! I love the cocoa and tart cherry combo too. And isn't quinoa the best?! I add it to so many baked goods and savoury dishes. So versatile and filling. Hope you have a great week!
This is absolutely on my todo list. I was actually searching for a good nut free energy bites. I know my daughter will love the chocolate flavor.
Thanks! I hope you get a chance to make them Hee Jee! And be sure to let me know if your daughter likes them!
Thanks Puja! I hope you like them. Have a great week!
I'm thinking ahead to spring too Leanne! These little bites look like they'd hit the spot after a workout or as a little afternoon pick me up. Love the chocolate cherry combo!
Thanks Mary Ann. These are definitely a nice post-workout snack. Not too sweet but filling! Happy Wednesday!
Ooooooh momma! I love date based energy bites but I've never made them with cherries! Brillant idea! Your photos are awesome and this recipe looks and sounds utterly fantastic!
Thank you! I love all things dates, so they're a must for me in most energy bites! The tart cherries in these bites definitely add a little something different. Have a great weekend Christina!
We are definitely closer to the start of spring than the beginning of winter, so I'm all for the positive outlook!!! And the spring veggies! These bites look delicious!! I could always use more energy, especially when it comes in a tasty treat like this! Yess!! Cheers, girl!
Love your positive attitude Cheyanne! So happy we are closer to spring than the beginning of winter! Happy weekend!
I LOVE football, but I get just as excited for Super Bowl snacks as I do for the game :). These little bites of yumminess would have been perfect on Sunday but they'll be just as delicious this weekend when I'm mourning the end of football season instead of actually watching a game, haha!
i love chocolate + cherries (cherry garcia ice cream is one of my favorite flavors!) together, so i bet i'd love these too (: and haha i think i saw a combined minute of the superbowl between the peaks i got while out for lunch at a poke place and playing games at an arcade.


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