"Shouldn't that home brew technically be called a mead, being made from honey?"

"Alert the Meadia!"

The "colony collapse" mystery is solved.

It's us! I mean... it's -us.

Fungus + virus, acting together.

Bee climbs goldenrod.

"Althouse wows audiences with her bee knowledge."

"She has a passion for informing the public about bees and encourages everyone to consider setting up a hive on their property if they can.... Althouse helps folks get started with their own hives: ordering the bees, purchasing materials and setting up the hive.... In January, Althouse ran for American Honey Queen of the American Beekeeping Federation and was first runner up. The five other state honey queen contestants voted her Miss Congeniality, and anyone who knows her would not be surprised at this. She’s modest to the degree that she didn’t mention this honor in the interview."

The modest and adorable Maya Althouse, of Rebersburg, Pennsylvania.

At the Shy Bee Café...

... creep into this delicate shade, hide from the cruel word, and tell me your tender secrets.

At the Bee Café...

... keep the buzz going all night.

"A thousand years ago, popular birth control methods in the Western world included spitting into the mouth of a frog, eating bees and wearing the testicles of a weasel."

Actually, all those things work.

Birds and bee.

(Today, in Madison.)

The bee finds its perfect place.

The truth about "bee balls."

It's not the heat. It's the suffocation.



Don't worry, the scotch-taped giant hornet was anesthetized before he was introduced to the bees.

Too many bees.

"$1200 obo this has been a good truck for me but i have to sell it because i cant ever get to it with all of the bees around it they have been in and around it for almost 2 months now and i havent been able to get near 5 feet or else i get stung and im sick of it i still have welts from months ago stingings and i cant even get to work because i cant get to my truck so i have to sell it test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees."

(Via Jac.)

IN THE COMMENTS: This post brought out the best in the commenters. I feel like front-paging the whole thread. I will limit myself to part of what blogging cockroach said...

and that poor truck guy
probably stung too many times
to be able to type at least i have
an excuse but you won t find me
moving into a pickup truck no sir
i m holding out for a b m w

... and add a photoshop request for a picture of a BMW crawling with cockroaches...

... and amba...

Found poetry!

... and add a request for more poetry in the Too Many Bees style.

"Is your baby comfortable with bees, wasps and hornets?"

"George is comfortable with everything."

"'Put your hand on it, you can feel the heat they make. They're all in a big mound right now on top,' said Althouse."

"A sheet of newspaper separated Maya Althouse's hand from 3 pounds of bees — totaling somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 stingers.... In November, the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Association named her the 2009 Pennsylvania State Honey Queen."