European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T h s t a r a n d s t r i p e f e a t u to t Ion the sergeant handles keeps Clear As dad handles s sgt and Gerhard a Bee smoker helps take sting out of Sac airman gained title father of the through interest in Honey producing insects bees keep sgt Busy during of duty hours by Paul staff writer a director of the american hotter Institute once declared it should tie of Buknis that with the world in the Chang ing it is someone must be con looking out for honeys someone is doing so in Ai de Guadara and Moron de a spaniards Call him Al padre de Las Obejas the father of the americans at 16th air forces Moron air base Call him Boenisch the both nationalities rely on 37yearold s sgt Gerhard Boenisch to Vamoose cousins from Homes and the 3973d installations Squadron refrigeration specialist is More than de of fated to its Sweet work for a beekeeper since he was 8 years Boenisch just puts a netting Over his Sticks an Arm into the usually catches Hie Queen and holds her loosely in a flit the other bees follow the Queen and rendezvous on the sergeant then he finds the bees a Home in one of his As Boenisch walked to the wooden boxes at the rear of his Home in Alcaria de Gua he said they can All be he stuck his unloved hands into a hive and hundreds of bees frolicked on his he Shook his arms and jarred his friends you dont fool with he they can kill sometimes i use a Bee smoker to quiet them its sort of a Bellows contraption filled with powdered Gunny turned to his lagging companions and said the bees smell it when they know youre if youre you give off it certain odor that they can detect july 1958 dont eur go near bees if got wine on your  eat you if youve got whisky on your youre not going anywhere near the bees and you might just As Well come that also True if youve been taking if youre afraid of just walk it they get around dont hit at they cant stand to be hit if a Bee stings its still but it will die in 20 to 30 they say that the sting will Hurt As Long As the bees the Best thing to do is to put a paste of baking soda and water on the it pulls out the i hardier Ever get bit if i i hardly notice if one Bee apparently didst hear him and bit stung under the right went on working Tat though the Bee had kissed he put nothing on it and said till go away in a couple of one time in the states he was getting bees out of a and got really Bee his body got a venom Tattoo and his left wrist swelled up As Large As hts left he took a Bath in soda by he next morning i didst feel it was All the san who has served 14 years in the air Force and in Spain since the bees have the tames bees Are the Golden the Queen will do anything in the world not to the meanest Are the  fight you from the time you walk in until you walk out according to there Are about bees in an average size swarm weigh ing eight the function of the Queen is that she mates once in her which averages seven she Doos nothing but Lay eggs and is fed by the she lays about to eggs daily for nine months a the Colony has thousands of sexually undeveloped workers and a few Hundred males called the drones Are worthless and the one that gets a Chance to mate with the Queen is kicked out sometimes you get a Lazy Queen that one that Doest produce enough the Best tiling to do is Pinch her head and get a Young Queen to replace Busy bees Ore important to he and his preserve at least 400 on Pound jars of Honey each they had a profitable business in the and at one Lime maintained almost too Boenisch now Lias 22 boxes and expects to get about 33 pounds each year from it requires at least trips to the Flowers to make one Pound of All this is important to him that the Bee gets the nectar of Flowers into its Honey sack converts it by enzymes into glucose and fructose sugars puts the fluid into open Wax cells of Honey Combs after evaporation to proper it is sealed cleans and de the stars and stripes funds the hive the Queen and a must constantly Check the Boxen be cause Bee diseases can easily Lead to a epidemic in the some diseases can spread to 100 hives three Boenisch is especially on guard for signs of rheumatic rheumatism and foul Brood in the foul Brood he describes As having a smell like an old glue to get the Sweet Boenisch opens a Box and takes off the Combs Seal with a the comb is placed in a Metal extractor and the Honey drips to the then it is strained through White pasteurized at 180 degrees temperature and jarred and sealed at room a Light Amber color is most Boenisch the Darker the color dictates that the beekeeper didst extract in it Means the bees have walked Over the comb a lot of you know that bees Honey Are Good for a lot of things that nil my wife had sugar diabetes Ami the doctor recommended Honey for the diabetes and Bee venom for they helped her alot fixed her right Boenisch said that his 9yearold helps me some with the and that his plays around the Yard with the bees and they hardly Ever bother each his three Patricia Ala and apparently prefer playing with