"Give a child a set of crayons and a blank sheet and ask them to sketch out a bee scene. It's likely you'll see them use the green crayon—just for the flower stems. In contrast,...

Inspired by the Jefferson County Fair’s 2024 dinosaur theme, here’s a little science note on the question of what dinosaurs might have to do with bees. Gorgosaurus (Image: D....

Western bumble bee Of all the native bees in our gardens, the bumble bees are perhaps the most easily recognized, cute and appealing (besides our own adorable honey bees, of course, which are not...

Most often, what you see, if you’re lucky enough to see it at all, is just the high point of the drama:  thousands of bees suddenly pouring out of your hive like a genie from a magic lamp…..and...

My 25-year-old smoker had just not been working all that well for a couple of years.  It is an older style from Mann Lake, and the bellows assembly is still available as a separate unit….so I...

Not that you haven’t enough to do in early autumn, wrapping up summer’s harvest and processing crops and honey – but sometime in late September or so, your schedule may slow down and you can...