jadebees

@jadebees@better.boston

I'm the head of Friends of Bees, a working group in Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment. We educate about and advocate for our native bees and pollinators.

Banner photo: Small carpenter bee (Ceratina) on a just-split raspberry cane, showing the channel down the center.
Profile photo: Coneflower with a metallic green sweat bee (Agapostemon) on the edge of the orange stamens above pink petals.

she/her if anyone asks.

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mcnees, to random
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The 11yo had a Calvin and Hobbes book out, and I made the mistake of reading the one she dog-eared.

jadebees,

@mcnees The Chauncy Street exit on the Downtown Crossing MBTA station used to have a wooden escalator. I liked the way the slats felt underfoot. Sometimes, though, the mechanism pulling the steps up would shudder and jerk. I'm not sure, but I think they may have outlasted Calvin and Hobbs.

jadebees, to random

#Bumblebees only store a few days' worth of pollen and nectar. When their stores run low, they may bite the leaves of such plants as tomatoes or mustards, which can cause the flowers to bloom days to weeks earlier. The hungry #bees repeatedly bite the leaves and stretch the holes. It's possible that this stress accelerates flowering. Researchers have tried to replicate the effect but failed. Whatever secret sauce the bumblebees use remains a mystery.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pollen-deprived-bumblebees-may-speed-plant-blooming-biting-leaves

#pollinators

jadebees, to random

Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language because the Hittite empire recorded the religions of their subject peoples.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/hittite-ancient-language-discovered-turkey-b2449689.html

jadebees, to HashtagGames

Christmas is an alternative fact. Hail Sol Invictus!

#AlternativeChristmasFacts
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Giovanni of the Dead

#MakeAMovieItalian
#HashItOut
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jadebees, to random

Grill, Interrupted
#BBQASongBookOrShow​
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Thinking Newt Gingrich was just the worst of the worst

#EveryBodyWasDoingThisInThe90s​
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jadebees, to random

Marzipan Needs Women

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It was John Mastodon who looked out one night, on the feast of Stephen, while the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. And he gave warm shoes, a coat, and a turkey to everyone who passed.

#JohnMastodonHolidayFacts
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jadebees, to HashtagGames

Stuart Little Goes to the Corn Palace

#TakeAFictionalCharacterOnVacation
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jadebees, to HashtagGames

Did you hear how Hershey bar in Accounting keeps having threesomes with Marshmallow in Marketing and Graham Cracker on HR?


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( We eloped. Sorry, not sorry )

#OddWeddingInvitations
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jadebees, to random

Let's Get Physical Therapy
#SendASongBookOrShowToTheER
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Hello, Saturday my old friend.
I've come to lounge with you again.

#WeekendASong
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The Help

#MakeAMovieAboutVolunteering
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I Left the Yeti cooler with a donated heart in San Francisco.

#RejectedSongBookOrMovieTitles
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Star Wards
#SendASongBookOrShowToTheER​
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Harold and Kumar Go To the Olive Gard -- oh wait, that only pretends it's Italian.

#MakeAMovieItalian
#HashItOut
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jadebees, to random

She was a lovely lady blessed with three wise daughters.
He was a just lord with three doughty sons of his own.
May the day of their meeting be praised with joy and laughter,
For their union forged the Brady clan of great renown.

#ModernFictionalCharactersInTheMiddleAges
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jadebees, to writing

🪻🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼

For lovers of #writing and #gardening, Nancy Lawson's essay on what language we have been taught to use is very thought-provoking. Is a lawn well-kept, manicured, pristine -- or undergrown? So many of the #words used to denigrate a thriving #garden filled with #bees and #birds imply something savage that needs to be beaten into submission: aggressive, weedy, pest, unruly. Let's call them lush, exuberant, and alive!

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BREAKING: Middle Earth War decided by power struggle inside volcano.

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BREAKING: Philologist comes unstuck on time by comprending alien language that looks like smoke. Side effects include loving more deeply by embracing our mortal existence.

jadebees, to random

We have some discouraging news from the Eastern migration of the Monarch butterfly. Surveys of the overwintering grounds found that the #butterflies
occupied less half of the forest they used last year. This year over year drop of 59% makes this the second smallest overwintered population recorded.

Still, they have rebounded before. The best way to help is to stop using herbicides, and plant milkweed and nectar plants.

https://journeynorth.org/monarchs/news/spring-2024/02072024-special-alert-population-numbers-announced
#pollinators

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🪻🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼

Spring is coming! Daffodils and tulips are pushing up their leaves. Honeybees come to snowdrops on sunny days. Soon even more #bees and #pollinators will emerge.

Here's some in France:
https://afrenchgarden.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/spring-24/

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By building a large wooden rabbit

Monty Python Holy Grail GIF

jadebees,

@TechBean
By farting in your general direction

#WrongWaysToComplain
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