The queen lives!   The colony will live on. The faltering hive, blended with a queen and her kin, is suddenly energized. She must be laying up a storm of eggs, for the girls are as busy as bees(excuse the trite expression) to bring in honey and pollen. Now they have a purpose in life. A…

So I did something daring today. I took a ridiculously successful, laying queen from one hive, and put her and some of her nursery babysitter bees into a hive that I deemed queen-less. I didn’t actually know this hive was queen-less, initially. I had been watching them for weeks as the weather warmed. They started…

I have made a conscious decision to keep politics out of my bee blog. I have succeeded. Mostly. But when I saw the story about Ted Cruz banning the musical tri-tone  (http://www.snopes.com/false-ted-cruz-tritone/) I lost my resolve. I changed my mind. In other words, I flipped out. I had a whole rant at the ready for…