Happy Harvest Blog
Proved: honeybees can sting and NOT die
She would pause and tug and rub with her feet, and then run some more. She made somewhere around three dozen revolutions around her stinger. I couldn't believe I was watching a bee unscrew herself from the top of my foot.
Ant attack!
I had noticed they were rather testy lately, quite irritable when I go to close their door at night. They had briskly seen me off a few times and I was even stung. I thought that was odd because they used to be so mild. Now I get it.
The bees are thriving
H.W. has been watching them every day, and reporting that the bees HATE the "door" (the entrance limiting stick). We've been having warm days, and the inbound flights start bottlenecking at the entrance mid-morning. Then he pulls out the stick and "the bees BOIL out!". It takes a few minutes to rebalance, like traffic after an accident is cleared. Then the bees come shooting in and out like a time lapse video of La Guardia at 16x
Bee sculpture
Thing is, the bees have not recycled all the wax. The rest of it, they have made into sculpture. They aren't using this comb for anything, and it's intricately molded and shaped - changed to resemble some fantastic art-deco architecture. Amazing!
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
