Christine McDonald
@clikethepear.bsky.social
🐝Full-time beekeeper
🩸Type 1 mom
🌲Science and nature nerd
🩸Type 1 mom
🌲Science and nature nerd
You don’t get flowers without bees around here.
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
You don’t get flowers without bees around here.
I know there are tons of biologists on here. Can someone tell me the proper way to pronounce oogenesis and oocyte?
January 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I know there are tons of biologists on here. Can someone tell me the proper way to pronounce oogenesis and oocyte?
*opens internet*
*closes internet*
*cries because it's winter and I can't play with my bees*
*grabs a cookie and opens internet again*
*closes internet*
*cries because it's winter and I can't play with my bees*
*grabs a cookie and opens internet again*
January 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
*opens internet*
*closes internet*
*cries because it's winter and I can't play with my bees*
*grabs a cookie and opens internet again*
*closes internet*
*cries because it's winter and I can't play with my bees*
*grabs a cookie and opens internet again*
I may not be able to scientifically prove that eating honey from your local beekeeper makes life measurably better, but I’m pretty sure you can’t prove that it doesn’t…
January 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I may not be able to scientifically prove that eating honey from your local beekeeper makes life measurably better, but I’m pretty sure you can’t prove that it doesn’t…
This is the only acceptable use of the Bee Movie.
I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is the only acceptable use of the Bee Movie.
Bee fact of the day: honeybees do democracy better than humans do.
January 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Bee fact of the day: honeybees do democracy better than humans do.
This is not a post about roller coasters.
as the rollercoaster crests the top of the initial incline, the ratcheting noise slows and stops, and you can, right before the plunge, observe the entire amusement park
January 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is not a post about roller coasters.
I disappeared for a month or so there. Do we have a badass beekeeper starter pack yet?
January 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I disappeared for a month or so there. Do we have a badass beekeeper starter pack yet?
The silver lining to this bizarrely warm weather we are having is that I got to say hi to some bees today. Now I’m ready for it to snow again.
January 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The silver lining to this bizarrely warm weather we are having is that I got to say hi to some bees today. Now I’m ready for it to snow again.
Throwback to the time I took 100 “dead” bees to school for a middle school microscope lab only to have them warm up and start buzzing around causing absolute mayhem in a room of 30 teenagers.
November 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Throwback to the time I took 100 “dead” bees to school for a middle school microscope lab only to have them warm up and start buzzing around causing absolute mayhem in a room of 30 teenagers.
It’s getting pretty cold for bug finding but I was excited to have a moment with this colourful beauty!
Genus pimpla, northern BC, Canada.
Genus pimpla, northern BC, Canada.
November 19, 2024 at 5:53 PM
It’s getting pretty cold for bug finding but I was excited to have a moment with this colourful beauty!
Genus pimpla, northern BC, Canada.
Genus pimpla, northern BC, Canada.
I watched this paper wasp nest grow all summer in one of our empty bee hives. Today I thought I would get to collect an empty nest, but the last workers are still hanging on, too cold to move.
November 19, 2024 at 3:37 AM
I watched this paper wasp nest grow all summer in one of our empty bee hives. Today I thought I would get to collect an empty nest, but the last workers are still hanging on, too cold to move.
🐝 Gimme all things bees, please! Honeybee research, wild bee research, beekeepers, entomologists, macro photographers, honey connoisseurs, I'll take it all! I need to find my beeple on here!
November 18, 2024 at 9:53 PM
🐝 Gimme all things bees, please! Honeybee research, wild bee research, beekeepers, entomologists, macro photographers, honey connoisseurs, I'll take it all! I need to find my beeple on here!
Where is my “just a huge nerd with no real credentials to show for it” starter pack?
November 17, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Where is my “just a huge nerd with no real credentials to show for it” starter pack?
I found this gem while digging through old issues of the American Bee Journal for a Remembrance Day post. I think it’s every bit as relevant today as it was in 1942.
November 17, 2024 at 7:50 AM
I found this gem while digging through old issues of the American Bee Journal for a Remembrance Day post. I think it’s every bit as relevant today as it was in 1942.