Kim McMahill

I’ve always been fascinated with honey bees. They play a huge role in pollination and produce some truly remarkable products. Wax has been used in many products including candles, soap, beauty products, and furniture polish to name a few. Honey is not only a delicious treat, but raw honey also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties and has been used to treat burns and improve wound healing. There are 20,000 different types of bees in the world. But only one kind makes honey. In a hive, only the queen lays eggs, and male worker-bees mate with the queen. Female worker-bees produce honey from pollen and nectar that they collect from plants while pollinating, and then store the honey in honeycombs made of wax inside their nest. It is this honey that apiculturists collect. Read how apiculture plays a vital role in the survival of Beartooth in Refuge from the World (The Beartooth Chronicles, Book 1). It is available in ebook and print from most major online booksellers. Ord...

For those of you who follow me on twitter, https://twitter.com/KimMcMahill , you’ve probably noticed that most of my re-tweets fall into three categories— archaeology, climate change, and bees. I find archaeology and paleontology fascinating. Artifacts and fossils are tangible objects that can help piece together the past. When a shard of pottery, temple ruins, or a fossilized imprint of an animal are found, it’s difficult to argue the existence of the people who made the pottery or the temple, or the animal immortalized in stone, though some people will still try. In a day when so many accept the sentence or two making its rounds on social media to be the gospel, it’s always exciting to see something real. Weather and Climate have always been a passion for me. I watch the weather daily to help determine how I should dress, if it’s a better indoor or outdoor day, and if there is anything of concern to look out for like hail, icy roads, blizzards, or torrential rains. I’m also inter...