"Why to be unsatisfied with your peter size?"

[randy_byers]

A question my spam asks me, in one form or another, almost every day. The answer is always that there is no good reason, especially at this late date, so why not talk about bees instead? After all, bees never worry about their peter size.

So there's a shrub growing against the back of our house that flowers this time of year. I don't know the name of the plant. Denys planted it many years ago, and I keep forgetting to ask him if he remembers the name. (Hey, Denys, do you remember the name of that plant?) Anyway, I hadn't previously noticed that bees like those flowers, but they do. I've checked out the bees on that plant several times this year, and every time there have been at least a half dozen honeybees. It's the only place I've seen honeybees in my yard this year, and I've only seen two other honeybees in the yard in the past I don't know how many years. Five? What's particularly strange to me is that I'm seeing them on this plant but haven't see any in the raspberries. They used to be all over the raspberries before the big Colony Collapse Disorder honeybee die-off in recent years. Or maybe they were in the raspberries too and I just didn't notice them, since they're still so few.

Whatever the case, possible signs of recovery in the honeybee population. Or it could be just a random fluctuation, I suppose. My boss says he's just discovered a hive of them in an old birdhouse on his property near Briar. Hm, the birds and the bees? That brings us back to peter size ...

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[(Anonymous)]

According to Cliff Mass's beekeeping friend, it's been a bad year for bees, irrespective of CCD, in the Northwest, because it's been too cold for them to fly so much of the spring that they have been dying of starvation.

[(Anonymous)]

If you mean the large shrub right outside the pantry, my memory says it's an Echinacea. But you know my memory -- the poor thing tries, it really does, but sometimes the damned synapses just refuse to fire...

-- Denys

[wrdnrd]

I was just reading the other day (i *think* in the PCC monthly newsletter?) that bees have been overall rebounding from colony collapse in recent years. I'll look when i'm home at lunch to see if i can find the article again.

Tho', yeah, what Ulrika said about it being a bad year for bees in the Northwest.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

How do you know bees don't worry about the proportionality of their anatomy? Can't you imagine bee viagra spam?

"HEY YOU DRONE! ARE YOU WORRID YOU R LESS THAN A BEE SHOULD BEE? WITH OUR SECRET STING ENHANCEING FORMULA THEY WILL THINK U R A WASP!!"