Bee Natural

September 11, 2023 8:53 AM

Michael Bush has a website about bees. Bush is an opinionated apiarist who espouses natural beekeeping, and has the kind of old school website you might expect.
posted by zamboni (7 comments total)

When I first started my current job ten years ago, I wasn't experienced enough to be given many tasks so I had time on my hands. This is exactly the kind of website I would come to Metafilter for. Someone would link a geocities-type page about, say, the history of toast, and I would read more details about toast than a person could imagine.

Thank you for this. I am about to become a bee expert, as time allows.
posted by tofu_crouton at 8:56 AM on September 11, 2023 [3 favorites]

This is my favorite beekeeping website. Michael Bush was hugely influential in my own development my personal hive management philosophy.
posted by os tuberoes at 8:59 AM on September 11, 2023

I hope “natural beekeeping” doesn’t mean “doing it in the nude.”
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:07 AM on September 11, 2023

The part about cell width/volume and Varroa mites is really intriguing! Here's a link to one of the primary literature resources on that: link

posted by SinAesthetic at 12:39 PM on September 11, 2023

Wasps can suck it. Vicious, vicious little creatures. I rolled over onto one while I was sleeping and got the fun experience of being simultaneously numb and burning from one of those creatures.
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 1:46 PM on September 11, 2023

Wasps keep the population of other creepy crawlies in check, so I appreciate them.
posted by tofu_crouton at 2:00 PM on September 11, 2023

Oh crap, wrong thread. So sorry!!
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 4:12 PM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]