Apis mellifera, studied from your own backyard. This vintage field-guide mug is for the backyard beekeeper and homesteader who knows their hive by name and their honey by season: gentle, patient, and devoted to the small winged things that make it all work. Backyard beekeeper, certified by the bees.
The design wraps both sides, so the antique naturalist illustration and specimen labels read the same whichever hand picks it up, with every fine line showing clearly.
A treat for your own potting shed, or the gift that lands for the beekeeper in your life: the neighbor with hives, the parent who keeps bees, the gardener who planted a whole meadow for the pollinators.
Mind the bees. Fill the mug. Slow down.
