this is adorably awesome.

Reminds me of the new Mayhnard candy commercial.

I'm not familiar with that, do you know of a link anywhere online? :)

beeeeeeee who you want to beeeeeeee

Interesting. I had thought drones were smaller than workers, not sure why that was in my mind

Nope! Drones are quite a bit bigger than workers, they are pretty hefty sized bees and they have *giant* eyes. :)

such nice work...bees never get the credit they deserve...as a beekeeper do you know why they have that "fuzz" on there back?

I am glad you asked! The hairs actually help them collect pollen - they become electrostatically charged when the bees is flying and help attract pollen. The bee removes the pollen with a special comb on its legs and collects it in a 'basket' type structure on the hind legs to bring back to the hive. :) So they developed for their role as a pollinator - a lot of pollinating insects are super covered in cute fuzz!

that's amazing...thanx for the info, that's very interesting.

When bees aren't in heightened sting mode, they're kinda cute and fuzzy as I see here. :3

I'm so glad you are a beekeeper! We definitely need more in this world. <3

Lovely picture, as always, I am particularly fond of bees. You really captured their adorbly fuzzy insecty personalities. :D

This super adorable!

immediately thought of stag stacking from wow lol http://www.sleepercartel.com/images....._of_Stags1.jpg

Dude, that's awesome! We are thinking about getting into apicare- we've got hundreds of acres that are yearning for some honey bee presence. Any tips for a starting apiculturalist?

Wonderful! I highly recommend it! The first step is generally finding your local beekeeping club - there you'll be able to find a mentor and some information specifically tailored to where you live/your locale. They can offer you training and information - some areas have classes through the club or a local university. There are a bunch of books you can get but nothing beat hands-on with people who have been doing it. Keeping bees is really fun, interesting, and rewarding! A nice thing is the care is pretty minimal if you aren't trying to produce commercially - you can basically put in as much time as you want or almost as little (there is some maintenance you need to do, so I'd say an hour a week during the busy season would be minimum) so it's within the realm of doability for most people!

Awesome! Thank you so much. I'll definitely look around for the beekeeping club in our area(Hopefully we have one!)

pawsome!... though ya get points taken off fer not includin' the elusive 'Spelling Bee'! hehehe ;)

*facepalms*

Yep. know what I'm getting next time we are at the same con haha.

They re adorable, and fuzzy, and deserving of ALL the love!

OMG this is amazing. <3 bees.

What? No Africanized? ;D lol JK!
Very lovely piece here. ;D The details are just so lovely to look at. <:D

Which is your bee Hun? :D

Right now we've got Italians and Carniolans, about 150,000 or so of them. Hopefully about 400,000 of them this summer :)

<< you can check out the State of the Bees >>

Did you mean state of the bees? (as in how they are doing) Or have you created some sort of Bee Nation?

Well, I chose it because it was state of our bees, so sort of a bee nation! :)

So cute all of them and that fuzz.fuzzy insects can be very adorable <3

AHHHHHH so cute!!!

And we're back to the honey tower power hour!

Same here! I was really excited about our Russian queen - that colony built up really nicely last year and I thought they went into the winter strong, but it was an exceptionally brutal one here, weatherwise. Carniolans have done best for us, so far, we don't have a big enough sample size over the years yet to really say anything definitively (8 colonies) but they've consistently built up the best so far!

OMG THE CUTE I CAN'T STAND IT

So many bees to hug!

Bottom Bee: Do you even lift?

OMG I LOVE BEEESSSSS
aahhhh I wouldn't mind having a print myself!

Bees are so lovely creatures. Pity that they are so endangered nowadays :<. Beautiful art <3

Aside from the fact this is beyond ubercute, I had a question to you!
I found a bumblebee today that unfortunately passed away on my rug, but of course this got me hoping I'd attract a few bees to my tiny garden next spring..
http://www.tuinkenner.nl/webwinkel/...../bijenhuis.jpg Do you think, getting a tiny home for them like this would help attract them to my yard? (apart from the flowers)

I absolutely love bees and they're beyond awesome and just super important to nature.
Knowing how they're not doing superwell, i'd hope to help them a bit this way!

Those solitary bee houses are wonderful! They won't attract bumblebees, who are ground nesters, but they will attract and house a variety of solitary bees who are great pollinators and in need of more housing space, since people tend to mow/destroy most natural areas they would thrive in. You might want to read a little about them - I'm not sure about the weather where you're at but here you need to do a little winter maintenance with the bee cocoons that get laid in those kind of houses/setups : here's a site that might get you started with some ideas: http://www.orchardbees.com/ :) It's easy to do and really neat to see, kudos to you for wanting to help the bees! :)

Sweet, thanks for the link!
Solitary bees or not, I'd gladly help them get a home!

Will order that tiny house ASAP then ^_^

So awesome. x3 Love bees

This is strangely adorable.





The one on top is a huge asshole and loves to show off.
It's canon.