How are the bees doing in the hive?

I can't wait to see the bees. When I go over to their hive and ask them a question, they sometimes answer. I ask them "How are you doing today?" Usually they say, "I'm so lazy." But I do not believe them! They only seem lazy to themselves because they are used to being so busy.

I am not nervous about them making it through the winter. I can hear them vibrating just a teensy weensy minuscule bit. Every time we have a spring-like day, they don't come out. They might just know that the next day will be a total disaster!

What temperature do bees come out of their hive?

Well, I know.

Our kind of bees come out in the high 40's - mid 50's. We have had some really warm Spring-like days, but we haven't seen any bees yet--not even one. So where are they and when are they going to come out? They must know that it's going to become co-o-o-lder again the next day so they say, "it isn't safe to go out." I bet the first one who knows it says that to the other bees in the hive. I am so eager to see them again!

Flowers that stink

I just visited a list of flowers that have a disgusting odor.  http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0602.htm#carrion

Flies pollinate these kinds of flowers. Orchids, yellow skunk cabbage and a whole lot of other ones that stink too. It isn't really important to plant these kinds of flowers in our gardens because we do not want to smell that stinky odor. And these flowers do not come from plants that make food for us. These flowers smell like rotting flesh and one even smells like dog poop! Most of the flowers we think of smell nice so I found it a little funny that there are flowers that smell gross. This is how I found out about these kinds of flowers: a bee movie I watched in the theater. It was called The Queen of the Sun.  http://www.queenofthesun.com/

When I heard that flies pollinate I thought, "What the heck?" so I wanted to know more about it.