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The things I learn while writing this blog! In case you didn’t know—and I didn’t—the word “lounge” is a collective noun for a group of lizards. This is akin to a school of fish, a flock of sheep, or a pod of whales. That’s just one of the things I learned after Helen, a [...] After Monday’s post on yellowjackets I learned a lot about wasps. A representative of the Rescue Corporation–the people who make those plastic yellowjacket traps that I love–sent a positive i.d. on my nest: Vespula vulgaris. These are known as common wasps or, in North America, yellowjackets. Dave at Georgia Wildlife Services, Inc. wrote to [...] Now that I’ve had a couple of days to recoup, the bee yard is looking better. As a matter of fact, yesterday I was reminded of one of the reasons I really like beekeeping: it gets me outside. And because of where my hives are, I’m forced into the woods where the wild things [...] It’s been hard to write about beekeeping of late because I’ve been so busy beekeeping. The mating nuc is ready, the swarm traps are hung, the bait hive is assembled, and the honey supers are ready to install. It was a lot of work. But part of the extra work was due to successful [...] I was checking on my top-bar hive last weekend when I spotted this creature sitting on the roof, right in the midst of much honey bee activity. As far as I can tell, this is a type of bee fly–a fly that mimics the appearance of a bee. It stayed there long enough for [...] It was just warm enough for spring to show itself today. Between rain showers, I spent a few minutes wandering around and looking for reassurance that it really is coming. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { First snow drop First crocus First skunk cabbage First peek I received a complaint that, lately, my posts have lacked pictures. Well, dah! It’s December! It is very hard to photograph bees or beekeeping when everything is on hold and waiting for spring. Nevertheless, yesterday between rain storms I took my camera up to the bee yard to photograph whatever [...] So what is a mite anyway? Generally, a mite is an invertebrate animal in the class Arachnida—a name that comes from the Greek word for spider. Like most other arachnids, mites have eight jointed legs. A simple leg count is probably the easiest way to tell an arachnid from an insect. Insects—including bees—have six [...] Although I posted of photo of this insect way back in April, I didn’t get an identification until today. Thanks to Eric R. Eaton (http://bugeric.blogspot.com), author of the Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, this critter is actually a type of wasp in the family Cimbicidae and the genus Abia that is [...] |
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