Sticky Acres

I was outside, drinking red Kool-Aid, sorting the recycling, when I noticed that the air over the vegetable garden was full of bees. I didn’t know if it was a mating flight, a swarm, or a hive being robbed, so I ran inside and put on my bee gear so I could get a closer [...]

For the third day straight I smell like a Campfire Girl. For those of you too old too remember that aroma, I smell of burnt kindling and cookies. Every time I think we’ve got the Crotch Banger Bee situation worked out, I’ve got to drive back over to the trap-out, get all sweaty in my [...]

I was so pleased with how we handled the difficult trap out location at Karen’s and Jessi’s house yesterday. Then, today, while I was standing in the shower, (I get all my best ideas while in the shower) I realized that I’d installed the one way exit on the wall entrance of the Crotch Banger [...]

Jessi and Karen are tired of sharing their fruit salad with 10,000 buzzy pals every morning. Since they are nice, young ladies, they advertised in the neighborhood newsletter that they had a bee colony that needed to be relocated from the retaining wall supporting their terrace rather than calling an exterminator. I went over to [...]

I have many desires that I cannot explain. Like, my love of shoes for example. Or, my goal of joining Volvo’s Million Mile Club. Or, the fact that I’ve been pining for a Bee Gum since I read about them on one of the numerous bee sites I’ve been frequenting lately (and too often). I [...]

This just in off the Organic Beekeepers Yahoo group: [Organicbeekeepers] Bee Culture Posted by: “deknow” Sat Jan 9, 2010 7:21 am (PST) Hi Martha (and all), Things are looking up on all fronts. The journals (and prominent speakers) are, for the most part, giving more attention to chemical free, treatment free, organic, etc approaches. The [...]