CherryPie on February 5th, 2010

A bee and a flower of average size.
Trying to find a photo that might fit this theme left me pondering on the meaning of average; size, height, intelligence, beauty etc etc.
It left me with the thought that average is often used in the context that anything above is exceptional and anything below is sub standard.   [...]

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CherryPie on July 20th, 2009

When I shared some interesting facts about bees recenly, Denise pointed me to this online petition to save the honeybee.  The petition is calling for the banning of neonicotinoids which is a type of pesticide which was first used in the 1990s which co-insides with when the mass bee disappearances started occurring.
Neonicotinoids work as an [...]

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CherryPie on July 14th, 2009

I am currently reading What on Earth Happened?… In Brief (the planet life and people from the big bang to the present day).  It is full of interesting facts and today I learned some interesting facts about bees, I had no idea there were so many different species of bee.

Bees descended from wasps and emerged [...]

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CherryPie on May 31st, 2009

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

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