by Sam Hall – For honey bees swarming season is here. It is when nature tries to increase the number of colonies to insure the...
Category : Animals
Thistle
It was not addressed to Thistle, and the shoes were not her size. On the inside lid of the box there are tips addressed to the consumer...
Industrious Innovators ~ Notes from the editor
Everything we’ve learned we have learned from other “inferior” animals. Case in point, this canoe-building woodpecker. Canoe...
Bee Lines: Queen Rearing 101
by Sam Hall – At this time of year as a beekeeper, it is hard to contain my excitement that after our long winter spring is...
Dragonfly Tales: There be dragons
by Steve Melcher – “Magic is seeing wonder in nature’s every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how...
Dragonfly Tales: Charlotte’s Web (cam)
by Steve Melcher – I’m writing this when there is frost on the inside of our windows here at Odonata Sanctuary. Remember those...
Travis: Secret Agent Dog
by Gary Catt – Well, he’s here. He arrived last month. Finally. He’s a fiddle-footed thing, 12 pounds of hyper-kinesis with...