This summer we spent over 80 hours watching bees. Which, if you haven’t ever done that, I highly recommend it. Ok, maybe you don’t need to spend quite that much time bee watching. But I promise that even spending just a few minutes will be both entertaining and rejuvenating. We saw wool-carder bees chase bumble bees, chase each other, and even find love (ok, “mate”). Likewise, the bumble bees were busy doing what they do – collecting food (pollen and nectar), both gracefully