Reprinted here with kind permission from the author, is an essay I relished and am delighted to to share. Thanks, Sam, for bringing this gem...

Spring has definitely arrived in Upstate NY USDA Zone 4. There aren't enough exclamation points in all of human history to adequately pu...

One of my favorite blog discoveries of late is Birdchick: The Birdwatching Adventures of Sharon Stiteler. If you're at all interested i...

They say bee stings are more painful in the fall, and without having the slightest ideas why that might be, I'm beginning to think it...

Ever wonder what a bee sting feels like in comparison, say, to a paper wasp or yellow jacket sting? If so, behold the wittily nuanced descri...

1. The dead bee I picked up wasn’t dead. 2. I bothered the bees before a thunderstorm. 3. My swarm-catching technique could use some refinin...

The Wall Street Journal has just published an informative article on "bee gardens" and native pollinators (which the honeybee isn...

This is the story of how not to hive a swarm of bees. Last week, on the Summer Solstice, the bees from both Hive Orange and Green Hive took...

Not a very good swarm-catcher, but a swarm-catcher nonetheless. (Not sure if I succeeded in catching them, or simply waylaying them en route...