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I put off writing this post for a very long time—since November, actually. Although I often display irritation in my posts, I try damn hard to remain civil. But the makers of HopGuard have pushed my civility to the limit. I had to cool down for months before I could write something that wouldn’t [...] I just read another lengthy diatribe about gloves. Apparently, if you wear gloves you are not a “real” beekeeper. This kind of BS irritates me no end. This particular article wasted a lot of ink on how to wean yourself from gloves. You go from thick leather, to thin leather, to dishwashing gloves, to [...] Blogging frustrates me because when I think I am communicating, I am not. Just when I think I am being crystal clear, the reader comments prove me wrong. It can get so bad, I wonder why I bother. Yesterday’s post on organic sugar vs. refined sugar elicited a barrage of comments, e-mails, and Tweets [...] . . . and ticked me off no end. Although I spend vast amounts of time and energy preaching the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use, last week the FHA forced me to hire an exterminator and spray for non-existent anobiid beetles. I argued and pleaded, but no amount of logic had any effect on [...] The best way to make yourself into a target these days, is to say something negative about urban beekeeping. You may as well paint a bull’s eye on your beesuit. And those yellowjackets I’ve been complaining about? They can’t hold a candle to an angry urban beekeeper. Hear that? Those are arrows zinging by [...] Once again I’ve been asked why this phrase bothers me so much. So here goes. From what I’ve heard, the “let the bees be bees” camp are “beekeepers” here and abroad who advocate laissez-faire beekeeping. They capture colonies, hive them, interfere with swarms, but otherwise ignore the bees’ needs. They dismiss pathogens, parasites, and [...] In graduate school I took a class from Gerardo Chin-Leo, a passionate and intelligent faculty member at The Evergreen State College. The class was about harmful algae blooms, but the first assignment was to find articles in the popular press and compare them to the scientific papers they were supposedly based on. OMG. It [...] I read the bee journals rabidly. Since my bee knowledge only scratches the surface, I’m mad eager to learn as much as I can. All normal life ceases while I annotate every page and chew over every word. So why did I just make a paper airplane out of my American Bee Journal renewal [...] I’ve read so much about the revolutionary free software called “Hive Tracks” that I decided to open an account and give it a try. I got an instant case of claustrophobia. While this system might work for a lot of beekeepers, it would never work for me. Here’s why: When I’m beekeeping I’m not [...] Except for bees, my study of entoms has been sparse. Today I often wonder why I didn’t study insects—instead of agronomy—when I was an undergraduate. But when I look back at my courses, I remember. I took two entomology courses as an undergraduate, one of which was called “Economic Entomology.” As I remember, it [...] |
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