(Image courtesy of SolidPerfume.com) Apartment Therapy (ever heard of them? A great read!) has an interesting article up today about becoming a backyard beekeeper. As food prices rise and people get more interested in sustainable food sources and living-off-the-land, beekeeping is going to become more and more popular in suburbs and cities. Beekeeping is actually [...]
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Where there is a shortage, there is crime. Isn’t that always the way? In the wake of the latest colony collapse disorder that is haunting beekeepers and getting entomology departments grants left and right has a new effect–the rise in bee colony theft. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “As the price of pollination soars, each [...]
This is a neat group–it shows the process bees go through to make a hive. Love it! –Source
So I’m lying in bed, recouperating from my surgery, and I turn on Discovery, right into Dirty Jobs, season two, when he is in Cupertino, CA (near my house! Woo!) with The Bee Man. They remove a huge (and I mean ginormous!) bee hive from a wall of a parsonage. Check it out! source
