Worms and Bees are Cool

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Even if you don't like them, they make agriculture possible.

Agreed?

They have trouble staying out of pools. 

Which is good for your line of work, which makes them cool.

I've snapped worms in half, but would never do that with a bee.

I've dissected a worm, but never a bee. Also used worms for bait many a time, but never a bee. They are both cool in my book.

and Ladybugs are sexy cool.

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Worms wiggle on the sidewalk early in the morning and if they get caught with the sun too high they will shrivel up and die.

When I walk my Weiner dog he likes to eat the dried and dead worms. I tell him not to and that if he eats too many he will get sick. He does not listen to me. When he eats too many he gets the shits. His name is Mr. Charlie.

Added 2,000 red worms to the compost bin a week ago...

They're raging through it like groceries.

We just got a batch of new mason bees cocoons and put them out in a little bee house in the yard.   We had them last year too, but it was hard to determine which ones we introduced and which ones were just naturally occurring, but with all the problems bees have been having lately, doesn't hurt to replenish the natural stock.  

As for worms, haven't brought in any but I am always finding them while gardening.   The chickens love to dig for them too out in the yard and when one of them finds one, it will often run around with it in its mouth taunting the other chickens to chase her and try to catch it.

Um the honeybee is now endangered....

We used to drive a stake in the ground then rub it with a brick.  Drives the worms up, turn over a spadeful of soil and fish all day!

 

I Have Never not Loved a Worm or a Bee - God bless all The Creatures.

I would like to try my hand at apiary at some point.  

 

 We want to keep bees

Earthworms are plentiful here naturally

I think it would be really cool do do an apiary, but I'm too lazy!

I need to throw some red worms in the compost. It's been a few years since we replenished.

We'll be planting wildflowers for the bees this year, in addition to our butterfly bushes.

The best worm is on a hook.

I think this idea came from like a 6th grader...

Rise Of The Robot Bees: Tiny Drones Turned Into Artificial Pollinators

March 3, 20178:00 AM ET CRYSTAL PONTI

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/03/517785082/rise-of-the-rob...

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Could this pollinating drone replace butterflies and bees?

By Rachael Lallensack Feb. 9, 2017 , 12:00 PM

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/could-pollinating-drone-replace-b...

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Wormzer!