Searching for bees

I spent part of the day today searching for bees with Professor Tadauchi, Entomology Department Chairman at Kyushu University. We visited two shrines and a park, examining large old trees, looking for a large hollow tree that might have a native Japanese honeybee colony inside. Today was a very warm Spring day, so was an ideal day to be looking. We did not see a single honeybee during our visits. There were none on the flowers and we found no colonies. We visited the Kashii Shrine and the Shikanoshima Shrine, and there were very large old trees at these shrines, but no evidence of bees. It is a lot more difficult than I imagined it would be to find native honeybees here.

Finally, at the end of the day after much looking, I saw a single worker bee (Japanese honeybee) visit a Rhododendron blossom in front of the library at the Hakozaki Campus. They say that failure is the seed of success. One thing that failure does (at least sometimes) is to engender a stronger desire to succeed. It can be a motivator. One thing for sure is that to succeed, one needs to be prepared to take advantage of opportunities that appear. If you are not prepared to take appropriate action when the opportunity presents itself, then you can still fail even with a golden opportunity right in front of you.

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One Response to Searching for bees

  1. anwestover says:

    Most success can be attributed to nothing more than persistence. Which is a function of effort and desire.

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