MY FRIEND JOHN WRITES I'm reading Don Quixote— “In the fissures of rocks and the hollows of trees diligent and clever bees established t...

The weather is finally turning cold (or cold-ish) and hard frost has come, weeks past its due date, zapping the remaining color from the fie...

The bees never miss a trick. You put something out on the hood of the car or carry a tool up to the field or lay a sweater on the lawn, and ...

I first came to love jewelweed as a kid at camp. Also known as "touch-me-not," the pods of this lovely, commonplace plant "ex...

“What we refer to as nature or the ‘environment’ or the wild world is our endangered habitat and home, and we are its problem species. Livin...

Some pretty cool crows .

Consumer-Product Diversity Now Exceeds Biodiversity WASHINGTON, DC-According to an EPA study conducted in conjunction with the U.N. Task For...

Sencha LOVES honeycomb!

Autumn has been gentle so far, with no hard frost as of yet and none predicted for the upcoming week. Though there's been significant di...

Interesting in light of our current concerns about Colony Collapse Disorder to happen on this description of "spring dwindling" in...

Nice article in today's New York Times about beekeeping , and the importance of breeding for genetic diversity instead of relying on che...

We, and the bees, are lucky. Autumn is being generous to us.

From A Thousand Answers to Beekeeping Questions by Dr. C.C. Miller, published 1931: Bees, Livelihood from.— I have been trying to decide o...

I'm gathering photographic evidence of a natural phenomenon never before described in the scientific literature: honeybees gathering dog...