You might be a beekeeper if…
- You might be a beekeeper if the first thing you think of when you hear the word “smoker” is not a human smoking a cigarette, but instead you think of a contraption that billows out smoke to calm the bees
- You might be a beekeeper if you wear a veil on a weekly basis
- You might be a beekeeper if you automatically assume a “suit” is white
- You might be a beekeeper if bears and skunks are your personal enemy
- You might be a beekeeper if you’ve installed an electrical fence
- You might be a beekeeper if you’ve been called by your friends or family to come “save the bees” only to find hornets or wasps
- You might be a beekeeper if more bees drink from your birdbath than birds
- You might be a beekeeper if you have thousands or millions of “pets”
- You might be a beekeeper if you have a habit of naming insects
- You might be a beekeeper if you paint insects’ thoraxes
- You might be a beekeeper if you experience aches and pains and decide the solution is getting stung more
- You might be a beekeeper if you let male bees (drones) crawl all over you
- You might be a beekeeper if you buy sugar by the 25 lb. bag
- You might be a beekeeper if you store honey anywhere besides your kitchen
- You might be a beekeeper if you can smell or hear if a hive is healthy
- You might be a beekeeper if you avoid eating bananas before being around bees
- You might be a beekeeper if you aren’t freaked out to have thousands of stinging insects buzzing around your head in the midst of a swarm
- You might be a beekeeper if you’ve put your hand to a cluster of stinging insects “swarming” to feel their buzzing
- You might be a beekeeper if you say it’s your fault when you get stung