Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Covered with docile honey bees, Dr. Tim Lawrence of the bee science lab at Washington State University places a small cage with a queen bee on Susan Hosticka's neck to get his bees to switch to her and build a "tree beard" as show on page 1.
DAYTON - Susan Hosticka always wanted to do a "bee beard" to prove the hard-working insects are really quite gentle and harmless despite their reputation to the contrary.
Late last month, during a field day for the state's beekeepers association at Washington State University, she finally had her Fear Factor moment when 4,000 bees crawled and buzzed around her shoulders, neck and head.
"Not a single sting," said the co-owner of Octopus Garden Honey on South Touchet Road near Dayton. "It kind of felt like a scratchy wool sweater."
When bees are in a natural swarm they're the most docile, said H...
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