You don’t get flowers without bees around here.

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…

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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.

This is one of my very favourite things to watch!

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.

Cheers to kid scientists! My kiddo keeps a little plastic container full of bugs in the freezer for comparing under the microscope.

Here’s my candidate 🥹
Megachile melanophaea from 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.

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.