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10/09/2016

The Microcosm is ever vigilant . . .

08/27/2016

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12/24/2015

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12/11/2015

Delighted to share the inaugural edition of "Beekeeping," published by our friends at Bee Culture magazine. Editor Kim Flottum created this quarterly to support the new beekeeper and all of the ins and outs of stepping into the world of the honeybee. "The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water” ― Karl Von Frisch, Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language

PRESS RELEASE

Bee Culture Magazine Launches Brand New Beekeeping Magazine Focusing On Beginners.

Bee Culture Magazine is proud to announce the launch of our brand new beginner’s magazine entitled BEEkeeping Your First Three Years.

A quarterly, newsstand-only offering, the very first issue has articles aimed specifically at brand new, and not quite so brand new beekeepers looking for solid, factual and reliable beekeeping information from sources that they can trust.

“It’s a big day for the Root Company, and for Bee Culture magazine,” said Brad Root, President of Root Candles, publisher of both BEEkeeping and Bee Culture magazines. “There hasn’t been a regular, new magazine produced for beginning beekeepers since A.I. Root came out with Gleanings In Bee Culture, more than 140 years ago, and that was aimed directly at the expanding population of brand new and inexperienced beekeepers” he said. “This was the first audience A. I. had, and it’s good to see that tradition return.”

“We’re excited to have another title out there helping beekeepers do what they love doing, better”, exclaimed Rex Mason, CEO of Root Candles. “We know how much work it took our Publications Department to make this happen, and the finished product is something we are all proud of.”

The first issue features Roy Hendrickson on Successful Beekeeping, Buzz Phillis on Finding Beeyards, Ann Harman on What To Do And Why, and, Finding Answers, Kim Flottum on 10 Rules, Les Crowder on Top Bar Hives, Toni Burnham on Urban Beekeeping, New Products, Jim Tew on Beekeeping Equipment and Getting Bees by Phil Craft, and regional reports by Jennifer Berry, Dewey Caron and others.

Available nationwide in TSC Farm stores, Barnes & Noble, Hastings and Books-A-Million Bookstores, and hundreds of independent book stores all over the map, the new Quarterly will arrive on Newsstands the week of December 21, and remain available (unless sold out) until the end of March.

Future issues will focus on using individual pieces of equipment, examining hives, seasonal plants in the various regions of the U.S. and especially seasonal management no matter where you live, and so much, much more to enable new, inexperienced beekeepers be successful and enjoy their endeavor.

“It’s been a challenge to get this up and going, but when that first issue came yesterday, it was all worth it,” said Kim Flottum, Editor. “Our crew took up my challenge of doing even more for the beekeeping community, and I think we’ve exceeded even my wishes. It’s a terrific magazine!”

11/09/2015

Emmet Brady Remarkable. Yet another mind-blowing find from an Ambassador for the Insect Tribe, ML Brady

Sent in for ID by Elvira Swales. This is a beautiful female Pūriri Moth / Pepetuna, found only in the North Island of New Zealand.

Caterpillars spend up to 5 years living in tree trunks before forming a chrysalis.

The moth, which doesn't have any mouthparts and therefore can't eat, has just 2 days to live in which it must find a mate and lay eggs.

09/06/2015

Someday I will share the strange and humorous story behind this town and the insect that inspired its name. It involves native folklore, Biblical inaccuracies and the ludicrous legacy of ignorance that we inherited from our forebears.

Bugtussle is a rural district located in Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. The community was so named on account of doodlebugs being frequent there.[2] Bugtussle has been noted on lists of unusual place names.[3][4]

07/15/2015

The Buzz on Friday.

Heroes don't get any bigger with the new trailer for Marvel's "Ant-Man," in theaters July 17! ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Watch more from Mar...

07/11/2015

Bzzzz . . .

http://shortsbay.com/film/doodlebug The depths of insanity are explored by a man chasing something in his apartment with a shoe. A man is trying to catch som...

06/28/2015

03/19/2015

THE CHINESE POLLUTION CICADA: If you haven't caught the buzz, this seminal presentation on the energy problems in China was recently banned in by their government, but here it is with English translations. Chai Jing delivers an immense talk on par with "An Inconvenient Truth", best digested in bits and pieces. On the roller coaster of emotions while I watched it, I was surprised and delighted when she coinsectidentally offered the metaphor on the solution (@129:50): "It's more like the process of a cicada shedding its shell - little by little, emerging from the shell it originally had." (Note: these issues are global issues, not trying to point the finger). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X2uwlQGQM =5387

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03/16/2015

Holy s**t. Speechless. Davis is certainly a center of the hive. Thanks Sean Christopher

Painting with support from the patrons of the Pence Gallery. Artist Anthony Padilla.

03/14/2015

THERE'S A STIMULATING RADIO SHOW IN HERE SOMEWHERE: Not sure which topic is most compelling. Corporate food. Global distribution. Media hype. Dangerous microfauna. Or . . . well . . . Your thoughts people? http://www.sfgate.com/…/Spider-whose-bite-that-can-cause-4-…

There was something about the bunch of store-bought bananas that didn't look right to Maria Layton.

03/10/2015

TIS THE SEASON OF THE BUZZ: If you gots a lots o' bees (outside the hive), call the National Swarm Hotline: 1(844)856-BEES. Thanks to Cheyanna Bone, Si Thacker and the rest of the Insect Tribe who puts this service together. For more deets, check out Honey Bee Allies on Facebook. Bzzzz . . .

National Swarm Reporting Hotline Toll Free: 1 (844) 856-BEES (2337) THE CHALLENGE: Honey bee colonies reproduce through a process called swarming, where half of the colony takes flight and lands in a basketball-sized cluster on a tree branch or building. They remain clustered for 2 to 24 hours...

03/05/2015

Breathless. So much there, behind the magnificence . . . Insect Tribe, in effect. Thanks to Sean Christopher, art curator for the Tribe.

For Blake Little’s latest work, “Preservation,” Little executes a simple premise and a singular technique in which his mostly unclot...

02/13/2015

IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE BUGS . . . IT'S ABOUT US. That's the tagline for the Insect News Network. I stumbled upon an article about the critical state of Monarch butterflies (gearing up to do something about it - stay tuned). In the meantime, dig this: The Washington Post, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the INN espouse a common tenet. The quote from FWS Director Dan Ashe, paragraph 9: “We’ve all been responsible. We are the consumers of agricultural products. I eat corn. American farmers are not the enemy. Can they be part of the solution? Yes. It’s not about this wonderful, mystical creature. It’s about us.” Bingo. http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-monarch-massacre-nearl…/

Can they be rescued?

01/30/2015

Mind-blower alert.

The recent discovery that some Asian microhylid frogs frequent the dung piles of elephants has gotten these obscure little anurans into the news, possibly for the first time ever. Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs – are not exactly the superstars of the frog world: they’re only really familiar t…

01/29/2015

A great share from my friend Sean Christopher

"Firefly #2" 2012 (22" x 12" x 8"). If you look close you'll find quite a few repurposed violin scrolls in my work. This was the second iteration of a kinetic firefly piece. Video: http://www.nemogould.com/nemo-portfolio/firefly-2/

01/28/2015

Hooray!

The troubled monarch butterfly, whose winter migration is one of the most remarkable of any species, rebounded this year, raising hopes for the brilliant orange and black insect, according to the yearly count. Some 56.5 million monarchs are gathered in Mexico for the winter after their amazing trek…