Flippyhead

May 19, 2006

We here at Hive Mind would like to give brief props to this past week’s guest apiarist, Peter “Flippyhead” Brown. After being safely sealed in Michelle’s Bee Wrangler bee suit and giving a hearty thumbs up to the camera man (aka, Peaboy, in the green veil), Peter dove fearlessly into the hive, getting himself a close-up look at those drone cells I talked about in the last post.

OK, not totally fearlessly:

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