It comes around every year. Drone Warfare. It’s ugly. The male bees, named drones, larger than…

You nurture a hive through the winter, tending it like a baby. Then one day, due…

The queen lives!   The colony will live on. The faltering hive, blended with a queen and…

So I did something daring today. I took a ridiculously successful, laying queen from one hive,…

I have made a conscious decision to keep politics out of my bee blog. I have…

  I’m quite sure you don’t love your weeds. But critters have a different experience of…

My Mennonite ancestors taught me to plunge my hands in the good earth. It was that…

Last weekend was the New Mexico Organics Conference. Celebrating 25 years, they noted that the market…

Recently our Universe of New Mexico Astronomy department was notably part of an international team that…

Bees are the ultimate life affirming of critters. Their buzzy, busy ways, communication patterns and how…