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Early Insects in Upstate New York
March 15 in the Finger Lakes: Bees swarm on my compost pile, on the broccoli flowers opening there – apparently some of the only flowers they could find. Yesterday: I swat a mosquito on my arm. Kids...
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The Costs Of Keeping Bees
My son is developing a passion for bees. Last summer, he started asking me questions about how people keep hives of bees, and at about the same time, he started capturing bees with his bare hands. He...
View ArticleHigh Fructose Corn Syrup Is More Than Just Sweet
Last year in the spring, I asked a question: What makes brown syrup more healthy than high fructose corn syrup? This morning I found one answer. A new study shows that as high fructose corn syrup gets...
View ArticleOne Bumblebee
Where I live in central Maine it’s been an unusual year. We’ve had a slow start due to cold, but even so I haven’t seen more than one bumblebee in my garden. Just one bumblebee, and no honeybees at...
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What’s Missing From These Photographs
Bees. Except for a small number of bumblebees, my garden, usually buzzing at this time of year, is devoid of pollinators. I use no pesticides.
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Honeybee Class Warfare
It’s Labor Day, but I just can’t bear to reiterate the awful facts about economic inequality in the United States. I could tell you about the insights from the latest article from the Journal of...
View ArticleEngineering Bees
This month’s National Geographic magazine includes an article about “How To Build A Better Bee”. It summarizes efforts by agribusiness researchers to protect dwindling honeybee populations in North...
View ArticleNo, Jill Stein Is Not The Scary Leftist Wacko Democrats Say She Is
Hey, did you hear that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an anti-vaccine nut who buys into weird conspiracy theories about pesticides? Chances are that you have heard this story, because...
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