Possibly the best thing...

... about dawn_felagund having bees now is that her bee stories give me a chance to pick up the beekeeping vocabulary I'm lacking in English. You try looking up weiselrichtig in a dictionary and you'll see what I mean! Oh, I'm sure there are special agricultural dictionaries that'll have all the words in them, but I won't be getting an agricultural dictionary just for a hobby - not even the mad linguist will go that far!

(Besides, the mad linguist enjoys picking up words on her own. Looking shit up is ok if you have to read or write a text in a hurry, but trying to figure out what the word might be, and then checking if that word exists, is so much more fun. I blame German high school practice of only letting people work with monolingual dictionaries: eventually, you start enjoying it. Well, I did, anyway. Anyway...)

Of course, the mad linguist very often thinks in overly complicated ways. She has learned that English and German, despite their close relationship, function differently - so a direct translation is almost certainly wrong. Right?
Well, not always. Turns out that the English word for weiselrichtig is "queen-right". Weisel is an oldfashioned German word for "queen bee", and richtig is "right" (in the sense of "not wrong".) So - about the most obvious choice!
I'd never have figured that out on my own. I'd have circumscribed myself to death. *rolls eyes at self*