syrinx

Let's Dance... like a bumblebee flying between the mexican hats

tags: wildflowers music bees color sound breeze buzzing

beekeepers disappearing, too according to local news article from the land of orange blossom honey. Video addition to the story at the link.

This picture fell out of the Adbusters magazine I picked up for some travel reading:
'Tis the Season to transcend the season:

tags: bees honey beekeepers adbusters buynothingday

bee-aster

Just a couple of these little bees working the asters... not sure whether they're actually honeybees or perhaps one of the solitary bees.

tags: wildflowers bees asters

Bees are still dying for a number of different reasons.
Gina Covina writing for Terrain,, points to malnutrition as a side effect of industrial agriculture, with the almond industry in California as a specific factor.

on the bright side, I have seen some honeybees recently in the garden - just today, (25 October) observed one pollinating the newly opened asters.

tags: bees apiculture

Bob's bookshelf - selected recent readings or audiobook listenings of potential interest

Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World - by Susan Brind Morrow.
Listened to the audio CD recently. Part memoir, part etymology, and part
history of (mostly) the Finger Lakes region of New York and its transition
from an indigenous population to the dominant North American European culture,
from diverse species to relatively few predator species besides people, and
touches lightly (first published 1998) on the coming crisis in bee population.

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