Dogs & Bees

Two interests of mine - dogs and bees - but let me tell you that those two words don't belong together. In fact, keeping those two words and creatures apart is strongly suggested.

While I sit outside and read, Lucy has been following several bees carefully with her eyes and one bee almost landed on her nose, but I gently brushed it away, for fear that she'd try to eat it. This concerns me for two reasons - 1) the bee may sting her and that would hurt her, and 2) she'd kill the bee which is unfortunate as we are trying to promote their colonies.

That said, it's best to keep your dog away from your bee hives. We've read that bee colonies are very sensitive to smell and don't like the smell of dogs either. The dog smell might agitate them.

On the flip-side, Lucy loves the smell of the honey that the bees produce and gets very excited when we harvest the honey in the kitchen: