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Category Archives: Hive and Colony care
“Many Drops Can Turn A Mill…”
Greetings and Salutations; Yesterday, for reasons yet unknown, a young man entered a bar, armed with several guns and started shooting. Several patrons, who had gathered for some fellowship and an adult beverage are dead…their lives snuffed out in a … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Family, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Improving Life, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil, Vaccinations
Tagged altruism, ethics, lgbtq+, murder, stewardship, The Other
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Crazy Cat Person – Dealing with many Litter Boxes
Greetings and Salutations! Sometimes it seems as if I have more cats than bees…and since I have NO desire to either end up on the 11:00 news, because my house has been condemned thanks to the waste products from the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General, Heath, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations
Tagged cats, cleaning, litter boxes
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Is this the End?
Just a little bit ago, one of the folks I see on my timeline posted a link, to a Forbes.com article titled “Sorry, Global Warming Alarmists. The Earth Is Cooling” It was posted without comment, so, I am not sure … Continue reading
An Update On The Bee World
Greetings and Salutations; The world of the Bees continues to be complicated. The issue of bee deaths is a problem still, as the scientists are still trying to understand how the colonies work, and what the environment stresses do … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, General Thoughts, Hive and Colony care, Questionable decisions
Tagged ccd, colony collapse, Forbes, NeoNics
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Where have all the bee-girls gone? Long time passing…
Greetings and Salutations; Sigh….the world of the beekeeper is full of odd moments these days. The problems with bees being killed off by environmental pressures continues, and hives across the land are being exterminated. The stupidity of … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Cosmology, Ethics, Heath, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions
Tagged ccd, endangered species, Honey Bees, micro-robots
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Saving the Bees….And Butterflies…
Greetings and Salutations; The bees in America have a lot of stresses that are causing them to die off. Needless to say, this is a Bad Thing, because something like 30% of the crops in America … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations, Uncategorized
Tagged butterflies, flowers, habitat, neonicinidoid pesticides
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Hope For the Bees!
Greetings and Salutations; Well, in these dark days of political insanity, bigotry and hate, there is at least ONE small ray of sunshine. NPR has an interesting story about the discovery of a mushroom that may help bees … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations
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Bees and Pesticides…Good Stewardship?
Greetings and Salutations; The destruction of bee colonies by Nicotinoid based pesticides not only continues, but is spreading through the entire ecosystem of insects. This article about it is short, but worth reading. Time after … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Ethics, Hive and Colony care, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions
Tagged colony collapse, Earth, food chain, stewardship
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Time slips away at the speed of thought, it seems.
Greetings and Salutations; I realized the other day that it has been six months since I added anything to this collection of ramblings. It seems, though, that it was just yesterday. So….What shall I … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Ethics, Food, Heath, Hive and Colony care, Nuttiness
Tagged Enlist Duo, EPA, GMO, pesticide
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looking at the ravages of winter and neglect.
Greetings and Salutations; Well, for the first time in far too long, I hiked into the apiary, to see what was happening there. My thought, as I looked around, was that at least it is … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations
Tagged beekeeping, colony collapse, hives, neglect
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