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 Topic: Close ups of bees |
Rupert
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 Forum: TV, Video, Blogs and Other Media Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:13 am Subject: Close ups of bees |
This is interesting.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/140114-bee-native-macro-photography-insects-science/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=pom_20140202&utm_cam ... |
| Topic: Anybody succeeded with this design? |
Rupert
Replies: 16
Views: 39013
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Forum: Perone Hive Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:42 pm Subject: Anybody succeeded with this design? |
Well done, Neil, that's a good effort. I hope your bees do well.
I put a large swarm into a customized Mk1 on the 23rd April. I see through the window that they have filled the top super, there are ... |
| Topic: Nuc to Warré Hive |
Rupert
Replies: 30
Views: 94228
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Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:05 am Subject: Nuc to Warré Hive |
Hey Verge and welcome,
I tried to grow down a Lang into an hTBH once. They didn't go down and the colony swarmed itself to extinction. Luckily I managed to catch the prime swamp, that I put into a ... |
| Topic: Who on biobees is treatment-free? |
Rupert
Replies: 134
Views: 283730
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Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:00 pm Subject: Who on biobees is treatment-free? |
Hi Che,
I have been treatment free for three years, going on four.
All my bees came from swarms and there are not many other hives close to me.
I don't inspect my bees either. I take honey, but a ... |
| Topic: the honey cow |
Rupert
Replies: 23
Views: 44075
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:01 pm Subject: the honey cow |
Hi SaveOurSkills,
SaveOur Skulls, more like, that's doing my head in. I appreciate the recycling bit, but in MHO, plastic and natural bee keeping don't fit in the same sentence.
Make it with woo ... |
| Topic: Mesh floor material |
Rupert
Replies: 69
Views: 220686
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:34 pm Subject: Mesh floor material |
Hello David,
Mites can walk a bit, but being that they have tiny legs and comparatively large bodies, I doubt that they walk very far. If you make your entrance holes a couple of inches above the f ... |
| Topic: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
Rupert
Replies: 24
Views: 57911
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Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:41 am Subject: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
| It would appear to me that history shows the importing and exporting of live animals has had a detrimental effect on those species. The benefits of hybrid vigour from new genes has been outweighed by ... |
| Topic: Plan Bee - please watch film and send your comments |
Rupert
Replies: 21
Views: 62635
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Forum: Environmental issues, GM, pesticides and campaigning Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:25 pm Subject: Plan Bee - please watch film and send your comments |
| Done. |
| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
Rupert
Replies: 117
Views: 398138
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Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:43 am Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
| Brosville, very true. Too much cleanliness leads to an awful lot of sickness and leaves people ill-prepared (excuse the pun) to experience different environments and eat different foods. |
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