colony collapse disorder

my mind has been wondering and wandering about the possibility of life without honey bees. each day i find at least one bee dead or circling the pavement as they do right before the proboscus rolls out at its last breath. honey bees are by far the biggest part of my collection and the sole inspiration for keeping track of my thoughts and my findings in this blog. i'm not sure if my sudden affinity for bee collecting and what scientists have coined colony collapse disorder are in any way related but, timing has made me take note nonetheless and the fact that the bee population is dwindling right before my feet is a bit unsettling. hives are begining to look ghostly with just the queen and a few attendants in house. this a relatively current phenomena which spans the globe but one of the biggest losses in population has occured in the hives of the U.S. could it be the IAP virus? mites? global warming? electromagnetic waves? i'm sure these are all factors and one thing to point out is that scientists are studying colony collapse disorder in harvested hive sites so is this happening in the"wild"? are the bees that i find in my neighborhood dying of the same things effecting domesticated bees? are the bees in my neighborrhood even wild?

death head

zaque brought back a pigeon skull he found in oregon for me. it's great. it still has the black tissue tips on the end of the beak-about 1/4' long. i put it on the window sill with the other one we had found about a month ago. what a pair.

do i really need another one?

i'm gonna try and bring this blog back around to the objects of expiration tip and keep it dead centered and a la naturale as much as possible. oddities and such.....