I ask you, can we call a bee “cute”? I stand accused. I have used “cutesy” images of bees for my blog. It seems to appeal to something deep inside us. Something cuddly and accessible that even a child could love! But does that truly speak to the nature of bees, whether honeybees or native…

At the end of this past year, 2018, a small article showed up in the Opinion section of the New York Times. I was grateful a bee friend of mine caught it and sent it to me. Paul Stamets, a renown mycologist, had written briefly on his study of fungi as a way to reverse…

My first remembered dream of 2019 was of bees. I kid you not. I do dream, but haven’t been remembering them much of late. But this one was blessedly clear, imprinted in living color on my memory as I awoke. I was left with a peaceful, joyful feeling as the dream washed away in the…