The Big and Final Update--January

January 3, 2015:

I know of no better reading than the 2015 BetterBee Product Catalog.

Jonathan sent me a vintage photo:

Bill sent me "Day of the Death Drones!"

January 14, 2015:  I'm still reading Betterbee.  It was a VERY cold winter; it was good to dream of bees.

January 22, 2015:

Marcia sent me a post about a dog in Australia who can smell American Foulbrood Disease:

A beekeeper from Tintinara in South Australia created the incredible suit for Bazz, the black Labrador trained to detect by smell a killer bee disease called American foulbrood. But his master has been forced to design him his own beekeepers suit after the pooch kept getting stung.