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Photo of the Day – The Mess of Creation

Published July 12, 2026

Building the second of three horizontal insulated bee hives I built in our barn this summer. What a mess of sawdust, tools and scrap wood.

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Photo of the Day – Wild Swarm Moving Day

Published July 8, 2026

Here I'm transfering a swarm of wild bees I caught in a bait hive (foreground) into their permanent home (large hive in the background). The large hive is an insulated horizontal hive. I built both hives.

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Photo of the Day – My New Insulated Horizontal Bee Hive

Published July 4, 2026

My most recent bee hive that i built in our barn.

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Photo of the Day – Inside an Insulated Horizontal Bee Hive

Published June 30, 2026

This is what the inside of an insulated horizontal bee hive looks like. I built this hive this summer and the feral bees I put in it are very happy with it.

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Photo of the Day – Bee Stinger in the Finger

Published June 26, 2026

Closeup of a bee stinger that I earned when I got too close to the hive. Note to self: feral bees get testy in late sumer.

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Photo of the Day – Insulated Horizontal Bee Hive Entrance

Published June 22, 2026

Tne entrance to my newest horizontal bee hive. The circular disks can be opened and closed depeneding on where the bee colony has taken up residence in the hive. All the disks are open becuase the hive is new and uninhabited. Once I stock the hive with feral bees (I catch them), all but one of the entrances will be closed.

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Photo of the Day – Message to the Bees

Published June 18, 2026

The welcome I wrote in the top of the insulated horizontal hive that I built tis summer in the barn.

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Photo of the Day – The Beellagio

Published February 10, 2026

Get it? The Bee Llagio? Okay, maybe it should be the BeeLazzo. Sorry. This is one of the three insulated horizontal bee hives that I built this year.

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Photo of the Day – Bumble Bee on Scarlet Runner Bean

Published December 6, 2025

Last Christmas, I was given a pound of dried scarlet runner beans by a friend. Julia and I ate all but a few of them, which we planted. They grew and bloomed like Jack's proverbial beanstalk, much to the delight of this bumble bee.

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Photo of the Day – This Is Why I Keep Wild Bees

Published May 31, 2025

Wooden horizontal bee hive box in grass, built for a swarm of wild bees

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Photo of the Day: the First Scout Bee Checks Out One of My Swarm Traps

Published April 13, 2025

All eight of my bait hives are up waiting to entice a swarm of bees.

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Photo of the Day – Getting Ready to Beeline

Published October 21, 2024

This evening Julia and I went to the bald, the clearing on top of our mountain. to drink a beer. While I was there, I set out a plate with sugar water in it. I hope the wild bees in the area will discover it. Then I'll follow them to the tree where they're living in. No, not to cut it down. Just to know where it is. Everyone should know where one wild bee tree lives.

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