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I’ve taken a couple of bee pictures I’d like to share. One is of a spider eating a bee on a hive frame I’d recently harvested honey from. The other is of a bee on an almond flower in February when I was touring Californian almond fields.

MALISA NILES

SOUTH DAKOTA

Making Something from ‘Nothing Good’

While visiting a friend, I saw her husband processing a deer and leaving the large rib cage

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