This is all very frightening - I hope things calm down and get wet soon.
In bee news - I'm in New Hampshire and planning to get started on keeping bees. What books and websites do you recommend? I'm taking a bee class, both as a way of getting the basic information and meeting the local bee people (beeple?), but I'd love your take on things, especially since you're an International Bee Keeper.
Hmmm I don't know actually, it's been so long since I read the beekeeping basics books. Definitely the best is if you can find a local beekeeper who will mentor you. But so many people when they enter the mentor role seem to immediately get it in their head that they know everything about beekeeping, so keep in mind that your mentor probably does not, in fact, know everything about beekeeping ;) Lots of people seem to learn a lot from youtube videos these days but I could never get into that, I've always preferred to read books.
All three died. I waited until the day after they should have emerged, and they hadn't. BUT there's good news because it was all part of an experiment with inserting them into a hive (to incubate them) that has a queen (which would normally motivate workers to destroy the queen cells), with the queen cells wrapped in little burlap burritos, and the bees indeed failed to destory them! I dissected the queen cells and they appeared to be at the stage of development I believe tehy were when they were in the truck cab (queens anatomically formed but all white, with just a little color in the eyes). I've got one more queencell that wasn't left in a truck cab undergoing the experiment so crossing my fingers!
It's so typical and believable and frustrating and such hypocrisy that throughout the five months this is going on she's getting the department wide emails from the upper management about how they take gender equality seriously yadda yadda but I think it's very clear that when it came down to it they chose to sweep the obvious discrimination under the rug rather than actually deal with it. It's much easier to SAY you're all about equality than to actually take action. Her current letter is to the ministerial level in which the department falls under, and she's considering talking to a lawyer about a lawsuit. I think it's definitely lawyerable as well I'm thinking the right newspaper journalist might really blow up the story.
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