B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 01, 2022

I guess she hesitates to treat bees like she treats snakes.

Saw that in Palo Alto, California. A honeybee swarm ended up hiving in a small tree in a paved city downtown parking lot. Most towns would call an exterminator, but P.A. instead put temporary chain link fence in a 10-foot radius around the tree to protect people and the bees and posted a few “leave be” signs around it (should have said “Leave bee”). Actually a wise move to make with crop-pollinating honey bees becoming more scarce.

“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign…” – 60’s hippies

A warning sign near or on Jane could also be helpful to others

Too many hives are disappearing in 2022.

B. C. = Bee Conservationist……….

I have a pollinator friendly lawn. I gave up on trying to grow grass on it. The soil is too poor and I am reluctant to dump tons of fertilizer on it. so I let whatever has adapted to the environment take over. Mostly it’s clover some wildflowers and wild strawberries. I even have the dandelions under control. If you mow them often enough, they produce the yellow flowers, but you cut them off before they get to the puffball stage. Most other weeds like to grow tall, so cutting them frequently keeps them in check too.

When I mow this mixture of plants, it looks good.

Good idea!

Okay, I’m no big fan of bees, but I will give honey bees a lot of leeway to come and go as they please, but for wasps, I’ll burn that tree down.

He just wants the hunny

What bee is gonna dare to hurt the former Fat Broad?

I love my bees. My grandfather was an apiarist, so I know how to beehave around them. But I use 12 gauge #8 at full choke from about 50 feet to dispatch hornet’s nests.

This is wonderful, thank you! The C.C.D. is so bad for Bees

But thankfully, in prehistoric times, they could still eat eagles, spotted owls, and giant condors.

Yay! We need all the bees we can get…..

If you had any idea how much of the foods we like are pollinated by insects and how the seeds are sprayed with systemic pesticides … I’d hope you’d do more than we are doing now.

Thank you, B.C.!

A popular dog park nearby learned a few years ago that they had a yellowjacket nest in the park. Rather than destroy it they put warning signs and caution tape around it for the rest of the season.

To bee or not to bee…was that the question? O<[|;o)

Yes, they are endangered

Honeybees should be a protected species. People stop using insecticides indiscriminately. No bees left to pollinate your veggies and flowers.

Decent of him.

I have 3 abandoned paper wasp hives at my house (after they fell out of the trees. Their construction is incredible, and the layers of wrapping are gorgeous. One year a Mallard duck nested in a tree box near the Treasury Building in DC. The Secret Service built a perimeter around the tree box, added food and water, and posted quiet signs. AND they stood guard next to it to prevent any disruptions to the family. It was wonderful to see.

I thought ‘Protected Species’ meant open hunting.

Despite acknowledging the importance of bees to our ecology, I have a pretty serious case of melissophobia. So, to paraphrase “Fiddler on the Roof,” anyone is welcome to keep bees as far as I’m concerned, as long as they keep them far away from me!

This makes me proud to be an Arizonan:

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/arizona-man-registers-beehive-as-emotional-support-animal

Just remember …

They love the Palo Verde Tree. When mine Blooms, I’ve got Bee’s and Bumble Bee hanging out.

Front yard of earlier home had a sourwood tree that buzzed from early spring until the first low temp week in fall. A low hum that was pleasant to hear.

Good man, B.C.!❤️